The document discusses reversing the tests pyramid for legacy code by starting with end-to-end tests before introducing unit and integration tests through refactoring. It warns that end-to-end tests are long and costly to maintain, so the goal is to refactor code to introduce unit tests from the outside-in. Maintaining a low technical debt by refactoring during slack times can help pay it back over time. The key is to introduce changes gradually through a reversed tests pyramid rather than rewriting everything from scratch.