Zapier uses Codemod to turn years of tech debt into a background task
The critical project no one could afford to start Over the years Zapier had collected thousands of hard-coded strings across many repos, owned by hundreds of developers. They wanted to extract them so the Content Design team could control messaging and ship updates without involving engineers, but the manual work made it too tedious and too expensive to ever make the roadmap. When generic AI hits real-world code, things fall apart



