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And there are a couple schools of thought on this.

Some folks like Justin McCarthy from StrongDM have the concept of what they call a semantic port, where it is a coding harness that literally, commit by commit, takes...

the history of a product and port it from one language to another.

Greenfield is a tool that we built to tear apart a legacy product into behavioral specs.

Justin is the founder and chief executive of Diffusion, which builds software factories inside large incumbent companies.

Before that, he co-founded StrongDM.

Prakash asked how a business stays on the right side of the law when it can't see how the model reached an answer.

Justin starts with the statute itself.

who run a business to turn their knowledge into specifications, workflows, and working applications.

Previously, Justin co-founded StrongDM and served as its chief technology officer.

StrongDM manages access to infrastructure such as databases, servers, and computing clusters.

He spent a decade building cybersecurity infrastructure there, and in July 2025, formed its AI team with Jay Taylor and Navan Chauhan.

Their experiment imposed two unusual constraints.