Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few minutes later. It’s a genuinely impressive party trick. It’s also, I’d argue, the least interesting thing happening in enterprise AI right now. The more consequential work is happening somewhere far less glamorous: inside fifteen-year-old code bases nobody wants to touch, written by engineers who left the company a decade ago, running business logic that nobody has…