The AI debt you don't see.
AI is writing a shocking amount of our code now. That’s not a future prediction, it’s a present-day reality. We're shipping faster, but we're also shipping vulnerable.
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⚡ The Signal
AI is writing a shocking amount of our code now. That’s not a future prediction, it’s a present-day reality. With GitHub Copilot becoming a standard part of the developer workflow and startups like Theorem raising $6M to stop AI-written bugs, we’re seeing the first market signals of a massive new problem: an AI-driven explosion in code volume without a corresponding explosion in code quality. We're shipping faster, but we're also shipping vulnerable.
🚧 The Problem
There’s a dangerous oversight gap forming. AI code generators are brilliant at mimicking patterns, but they lack true security awareness. They’ll happily generate C++ code with subtle memory-safety bugs that have plagued the industry for decades. This creates a two-front war for engineering teams.
First, they’re fighting to secure the new, AI-generated code. Second, they’re still sitting on mountains of legacy C/C++ in critical systems—codebases that are too expensive and risky to modernize manually. The cost of a full manual rewrite is prohibitive, so companies accept the risk, patch what they can, and hope for the best.
🚀 The Solution
Enter IronShift. It's an AI-powered developer tool that automatically refactors your entire C/C++ codebase into high-performance, memory-safe Rust. Instead of just finding bugs, IronShift eliminates entire classes of security vulnerabilities at the source. It uses a specialized AI model to translate legacy code, not just line-by-line, but by understanding context and intent, creating idiomatic, modern Rust. This isn't a fantasy; the industry is already asking if AI is the key to converting code efficiently. IronShift is the answer.
