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AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
An IEEE Spectrum article examines how AI is prompting the remediation of long‑standing technical debt, spotlighting the php2shell vulnerability.
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IEEE Spectrum published an article titled “AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt,” which looks at how artificial‑intelligence tools are influencing the effort to resolve technical debt that has built up in software over many years.
The article uses the php2shell vulnerability as an example, illustrating how AI‑driven analysis is encouraging organizations to confront legacy code weaknesses that have persisted for decades, and highlighting the broader impact of AI on cybersecurity risk management.
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