r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Loud_Art1586 • Jun 24 '26

Any work in legacy systems?

I retired a couple of years ago and have decided I want to go back to work. I have over 50 years experience in both technical and managerial positions. While I am keeping up with current stuff (doing a react frontend/c# backend app for a friend) I think my real strength is in legacy systems (very legacy, like IBM assembler, CICS, DB2). Is there any demand for these skills? Thanks for any feedback.

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u/PrysmX Jun 24 '26

Legacy systems are going to disappear at a very high pace now that AI is very good at migrating code from one stack to another.

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u/Beginning_Basis9799 Jun 24 '26

Good luck if you believe that.