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Local Moderne MCP: Deterministic Tools for Coding Agents

Coding agents spend most of their tokens on grep loops and hand-written transformations. The Moderne CLI's local MCP server replaces both with indexed search and deterministic recipes.

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April 17, 2026

Local Moderne MCP: Deterministic Tools for Coding Agents

Coding agents spend most of their tokens on grep loops and hand-written transformations. The Moderne CLI's local MCP server replaces both with indexed search and deterministic recipes.

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AI/ML
Code Modernization
April 15, 2026

Finding every way a Spring controller commits a response too early

Pattern matching catches the headline case. Taint analysis catches the helper method, the field stash, and the wrapper subclass. Here's how the CVE-2026-22732 recipe works under the hood.

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Code Security
Code Analysis
Developer Skills
April 1, 2026

Code quality metrics that AI coding agents can actually use

Most quality dashboards exist for humans. Moderne PreThink writes structured metrics — complexity, cohesion, coupling, test gaps — directly into the repo, where agents read them before writing a single line.

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AI/ML
Developer Skills
March 25, 2026

AI writes code faster than teams can trust it: Quality context is the answer

AI coding agents are fast. The problem is they're modifying your most complex, undertested code without knowing it. Here's why quality context, not better prompting is the answer.

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AI/ML
March 24, 2026

The first user of your dev tools is no longer a developer

What happens when coding agents use tools designed for humans? Jonathan Schneider on the four tooling gaps costing your agents time and tokens.

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AI/ML
Developer Skills
March 23, 2026

The PR is the easy part: What Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn taught me about automated code changes at scale

Getting engineers to trust and merge automated code changes is harder than generating them. Hear how Netflix, Airbnb, and LinkedIn approach shadow validation, migration fatigue, and the future of code review at scale.

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AI/ML
Code Modernization
Developer Skills
March 3, 2026

From grep to Moderne Trigrep: Faster, token-efficient code search for agents and large codebases

Fast indexed code search for the agent era. Learn how Moderne Trigrep improves discovery speed and efficiency across enterprise codebases.

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AI/ML
Code Analysis
Product
February 19, 2026

Extending semantic intelligence and transformation to Python and the AI/data stack

Model Python with semantic structure to enable impact analysis and deterministic change across repositories, helping teams and agents evolve systems with shared verified context.

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Product
OpenRewrite
February 10, 2026

Changing the AI context: How Moderne Prethink accelerates coding agents and reduces token use

AI tools promise speed, but context is the bottleneck. Moderne Prethink changes how coding agents understand real-world codebases with structured, reusable context built from the code itself.

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AI/ML
Product
January 27, 2026

Moderne Skills: Agent tools to help AI write and run OpenRewrite recipes

Learn how Moderne created agent skills that help developers and agents author OpenRewrite recipes faster and more accurately. This new AI-powered dev tool brings repeatability, structure, and automation to the software modernization process.

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Engineering
AI/ML
OpenRewrite
January 19, 2026

Spring Boot 4: The upgrade that puts money back in your budget

Spring Developer Advocate DaShaun Carter explains why upgrading to Spring Boot 4 improves performance, reduces cost, and how OpenRewrite helps automate large scale migrations safely.

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Code Modernization
Engineering
January 15, 2026

AI-driven code maintenance: What works at Meta, Google, and other large enterprises

How Meta, Google and other enterprise enginerring organizations tackle AI-driven code maintenance and modernization

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Code Modernization
AI/ML
Engineering
December 11, 2025

Semantic code search: a foundation for developer collaboration

Discover how semantic code search transforms everyday engineering work by providing accurate, cross-repo insight into APIs, dependencies, vulnerabilities, and runtime behavior.

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Code Analysis
Product
December 9, 2025

How Squarespace automated modernization at scale to simplify Spring Boot upgrades and more

Squarespace automated Spring Boot and internal framework upgrades across 200+ services with Moderne, cutting migration effort, reducing risk, and giving developers a faster, more reliable path to stay current.

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Code Modernization
Case Studies
December 4, 2025

From tech debt to tech stack liquidity: A new model for modernization

Tech stack liquidity offers a new way to handle tech debt: continuous, automated modernization that keeps your stack secure, current, and ready for change.

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Code Modernization
Code Analysis
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