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Intern builds LLM agent system to reliably rewrite legacy Java code

An intern discovered that directly prompting LLMs to rewrite legacy Java code is unreliable due to hallucinations, lack of stopping criteria, and difficulty in verifying functional equivalence. To address this, they developed a sequential agent system where an APIDesigner agent generates a JSON contract, followed by a CodeGenerator and a TestGenerator. The core innovation is using JUnit tests derived from extracted rules as oracles, ensuring the generated code passes specific criteria rather than relying on the LLM's output alone. This approach revealed ambiguities in the initial rule extraction, highlighting that the LLM's failures often stemmed from misinterpretations of these rules. AI

IMPACT This approach could improve the reliability of LLM-driven code generation by introducing rigorous testing and verification steps.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes the development of a specialized tool/system for code generation and testing, rather than a new model release or core research.

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Intern builds LLM agent system to reliably rewrite legacy Java code

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Meryeme ramdi ·

    The day I asked three LLM agents to rewrite legacy Java for me — and what actually happened

    <h2> 1. The question that started everything </h2> <p>Three weeks into my internship, my supervisor sat down across from me and asked, very casually:</p> <blockquote> <p>"OK your NLP pipeline extracts intentions and rules from legacy Java. Nice. <strong>And then what?</strong>"</…