Ideas for people building what comes next

Journal for Modern Builders

Thoughts, stories and ideas, by Layne Hurst.

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Notes on AI, modernisation and practical delivery.

16 March 2026

The New Economics of Modernization in the AI Era

Enterprises still face the same three modernization levers: hire a systems integrator (SI) to lift-and-shift or re-platform, adopt a COTS suite and migrate the data, or re-architect the critical components with more…

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1 March 2026

Legacy Modernization: How AI Lets Us Accelerate and De-Risk Transformation

I woke up a couple of weeks ago to our Fujitsu Japan announcing an AI-driven software development platform that chains multiple agents across every SDLC stage. It sounded like a miracle cure, until I mapped it…

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