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AI coding agents don't need bigger models. They need better tools.

What Jonathan Schneider's Code Remix Summit keynote made clear about the agentic SDLC, the density mismatch between models and code, and why the next layer of code intelligence is pre-computed.

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June 4, 2026

Modernizing off of legacy Java app servers: deconstructing to automate

Point an agent at a WebSphere migration and you get plausible PRs that never add up to a finished one. Deterministic recipes do the transformation; agents draft, run, and clean up the edges.

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Code Modernization
June 2, 2026

AI coding agents don't need bigger models. They need better tools.

What Jonathan Schneider's Code Remix Summit keynote made clear about the agentic SDLC, the density mismatch between models and code, and why the next layer of code intelligence is pre-computed.

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AI/ML
May 21, 2026

Kotlin Recipes for OpenRewrite

Kotlin support in OpenRewrite graduates from imperative visitors to a declarative DSL. The first three catalogs cover stdlib migration, allocation-chain performance fixes, and deprecated Android patterns.

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OpenRewrite
Code Modernization
May 19, 2026

Moderne Changelog: Change intelligence for multi-repository systems

Source control answers what changed inside a repository. Moderne Changelog answers what is changing across the organization, turning fragmented pull requests into coordinated change for engineers and agents alike.

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May 5, 2026

Moderne adds C#: Native code transformation for the .NET ecosystem

Moderne extends automated code transformation to C# and .NET, shipping nearly 700 recipes on day one for migration, code quality, and test frameworks.

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Code Modernization
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April 29, 2026

Context engineering: why AI coding agents spend most of their tokens reading, not writing

When an AI coding agent ships code that doesn't fit your architecture, the agent isn't the problem. See why semantic context, not prompt tuning, is the fix for AI coding agents.

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Code Analysis
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
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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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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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