In an afternoon, I was able—with the help of OpenHands—to eliminate much of eight years of technical debt in two medium-sized Projects. I had been deferring this maintenance for a couple of years and was dreading the tedium of refactoring and modernizing the code. OpenHands made it a much more pleasant experience.

That’s amazing! We hear lots of stories where OpenHands has helped refactor. Were you upgrading old dependencies? And curious if part of the motivation was reducing security debt / fixing CVEs?

I was upgrading old dependencies, among other things. I did address a couple of security issues, but my main problems where code written and dependencies chosen to provide backwards support for Python 2 (which certain stakeholder considers essential in 2016). The refactoring consisted of eliminating awkward code needed to support Python 2, restructuring the code (two libraries) to use modern dependencies and cleaner patterns.