pizzaiolo@slrpnk.net to Programming@programming.dev · 1 year agoIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down10
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minus-squareNora@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThe AI would likely be trained or fine tuned specifically for COBOL. In these very narrow use cases AI can find some things that humans can miss. Google did this recently on a sorting algorithm and was able to speed it up by 70%: More info here
minus-squareDie4Ever@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s cool for small and easily testable functions like sorting, but to refactor large amounts of code? No thanks. Would be great if it could leave comments on my pull request though.
The AI would likely be trained or fine tuned specifically for COBOL. In these very narrow use cases AI can find some things that humans can miss.
Google did this recently on a sorting algorithm and was able to speed it up by 70%: More info here
It’s cool for small and easily testable functions like sorting, but to refactor large amounts of code? No thanks. Would be great if it could leave comments on my pull request though.