Semantic Reverse Engineering Legacy Software Applications with ChatGPT, Gemini AI, and Claude AI
arXiv:2605.0411425.4h-index: 6
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For developers maintaining legacy systems, this work shows that large language models can assist in understanding undocumented code, though the approach is incremental.
The paper explores using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI to semantically reverse engineer legacy database software applications, demonstrating that AI can effectively extract business logic and data structures from legacy code.
This research paper describes our research results on using ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude AI to semantically reverse engineer legacy database software applications.