Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, sending 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting (www.tomshardware.com)

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Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

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[-] worhui@lemmy.world 46 points 2 months ago

The kind of code that is still in cobol is so mission critical that it hasn’t been able to be rewritten by middling managers that want to make a name for themselves. It’s the kind of code ai is least qualified to write.

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