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To blog or not in the AI era !

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It’s been more than a decade since I started writing blogs. Small snippets of code I tried out, turned into blogs. I myself depended on so many sources (including blogs) on the web, so this became both a learning and giving back opportunity for me. Over the years I have hosted my site on Godaddy’s WordPress platform to now managing on AWS Lightsail. It’s definitely been a fun ride. But everything good must have its end or more precisely in this case, a rebirth.

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Reviving a dead Spring Batch side project from 2013 with AI

I wrote the original three-part Spring Batch blog series in 2013. The code worked back then, the posts got published, and then — like most side projects — it sat untouched on GitHub for over a decade. Java 1.5, Spring 3.1, Spring Batch 2.1, JUnit 3. It was a time capsule.

These are projects I would never have gone back and updated. The effort-to-reward ratio just isn’t there when you’re doing it manually. You’d spend hours chasing down deprecated APIs, fixing broken imports, untangling framework migration guides — all for a demo project that already works.

Fast forward to now (Mar 2026), and in less than an hour (over 2 days due to token resets), I used VSCode+Claude Code to vibe code the entire modernization.

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