Heres how Google is using LLMs for complex internal code migrations [Video]

The tech giant has developed a step-by-step AI toolkit that it says has improved end-to-end code migrations by 50%.

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Code migration is a critical process in maintaining software applications. It helps improve performance and resilience, keeps systems up to date, and removes stale or irrelevant code.

But it can be complex and time-consuming on a number of levels, not the least of which is the fact that the code is very often sprawled across a variety of environments. And, while AI has emerged to support a number of lower-level programming tasks, the technology has yet to be able to handle the convoluted, confusing job of code migration.

But now Google says it may have overcome that challenge, offering up a new step-by-step process and common toolkit in which large language models (LLMs) find files that need to be changed. Already, the tech giant says its process has accelerated migrations by …