Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 days agoAnthropic'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 countingwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up139arrow-down1external-linkAnthropic'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 countingwww.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Technology@piefed.socialEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square16linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareworhui@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·4 days agoThe 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.
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.