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The cognitive effort behind understanding code
  • May 28, 2025

The cognitive effort behind understanding code

“I still think that one of the finest tests of programming ability is to hand the programmer about 30 pages of code and see how quickly he can read through and understand it.” – Bill Gates Various research suggests that reading, editing, and navigating code encompasses significant cognitive effort beyond simply writing new code. And […]

An AI alternative to code search tools
  • Oct 4, 2022

An AI alternative to code search tools

Would you believe that the average software developer spends roughly 75% of their time just searching through and understanding code to make necessary changes? When software engineers have to spend so much of their time just finding and understanding legacy code, before any real work gets done, they have less time to create new solutions […]

Colleague is a task-oriented tool that identifies the code that needs to be changed and helps with that change
  • Oct 4, 2022

Colleague is a task-oriented tool that identifies the code that needs to be changed and helps with that change

When organizations must make source code changes or migrate applications to alternative platforms, they frequently understand what the code does. Often, the people who wrote the code have departed the organization and someone has to learn a great deal about the code to determine which code matters. This lack of application knowledge introduces significant risk […]

Combining developer knowledge with artificial intelligence to improve software maintenance
  • May 19, 2022

Combining developer knowledge with artificial intelligence to improve software maintenance

Enterprise software systems are complex and require specialized abilities and unique knowledge to update, add new features, and generally solve problems. They necessitate ongoing systems maintenance to grow and evolve, which costs your organization a significant amount of money – generally about three-quarters of your IT software budget. Unfortunately, because of the global software developer […]

Reputational Risk: How AI Helps Mitigate Damage to Your Brand
  • Apr 11, 2022

Reputational Risk: How AI Helps Mitigate Damage to Your Brand

When maintenance issues result in mission-critical application downtime or crashes, your organization will likely lose market share, social capital, and maybe most important – reputational risk. A 2019 IBM report revealed that 41% of IT leaders surveyed indicated that the costliest aspect of downtime is its negative impact on corporate reputation. Phase Change President Steve […]

Improving developer productivity on the mainframe with artificial intelligence
  • Mar 3, 2022

Improving developer productivity on the mainframe with artificial intelligence

Mainframes are the central data repository in an organization’s data processing center. They support thousands of applications and input/output devices while simultaneously serving thousands of users. Most corporate data still lives on the mainframe, and these systems offer advanced capabilities, flexibility, security, and resilience to downtime. Unfortunately, mainframe management and modernization can be costly, risky, […]