<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Journal for Modern Builders</title><link>https://laynehurst.com</link><description>Thoughts, stories and ideas, by Layne Hurst.</description><item><title>The New Economics of Modernization in the AI Era</title><link>https://laynehurst.com/the-new-economics-of-modernization-in-the-ai-era/</link><guid>https://laynehurst.com/the-new-economics-of-modernization-in-the-ai-era/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:31:49 GMT</pubDate><description>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…</description></item><item><title>Legacy Modernization: How AI Lets Us Accelerate and De-Risk Transformation</title><link>https://laynehurst.com/legacy-modernization-how-ai-lets-us-accelerate-and-de-risk-transformation/</link><guid>https://laynehurst.com/legacy-modernization-how-ai-lets-us-accelerate-and-de-risk-transformation/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:51:14 GMT</pubDate><description>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…</description></item></channel></rss>