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Legacy System Business Logic Is Inaccessible to Non-Technical Stakeholders

Critical business logic embedded in legacy code is only accessible through engineering mediation, creating bottlenecks and knowledge silos as the original developers leave or retire. Business stakeholders and architects cannot independently understand their own systems. AI-assisted code explanation that surfaces business logic for non-technical users could eliminate this structural dependency.

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