Using AI to Reverse-Engineer a Legacy Application into a Modern Software Specification
How we used AI to extract a complete specification from a 25-year-old Microsoft Access application, producing 13 modular documents in roughly 4–5 hours of collaborative work.
Read more →Modernizing Government Regulations with AI
How AI tools can help identify administrative burden in government regulations, and what lessons transfer from legacy system modernization.
Read more →What the Research Is Starting to Tell Us About Agent Skills
A new benchmark study provides empirical support for the value of human-curated instruction sets in AI agent performance, and what it means for SpecOps.
Read more →Government Software at the Crossroads
The software industry is undergoing its most significant transformation since the rise of cloud computing. Government may be even more exposed to this shift, and far less prepared for it.
Read more →Proving Out a New Approach to Legacy System Modernization
Testing the SpecOps methodology with the IRS Direct File project — extracting specifications from real government code using AI.
Read more →Disposable Software and the Future of Government Technology
How the rise of AI-generated "disposable software" affects government technology strategy, and why SpecOps offers a path forward.
Read more →Welcome to the SpecOps Blog
Introducing our blog where we'll share updates, insights, and stories about specification-driven legacy modernization.
Read more →What Makes a Good Spec File?
What makes a good specification file for legacy government system modernization, and how to write specs that serve multiple audiences over time.
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