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The Hidden Productivity Tax of Legacy Software
We examine the massive, often invisible drag that technical debt and legacy systems place on modern business efficiency. Using the specific case of the UK’s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency and their decades-old mainframe reliance, we explore how outdated code forces employees to spend hours on manual workarounds instead of value-added tasks. Lucas breaks down the economics of maintaining versus replacing core infrastructure, while Luna challenges whether cloud migration is always the silver bullet or if it just moves the complexity elsewhere. We look at the real cost of waiting for a…
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