Itamar Turner-TrauringI've been getting ads from IBM for modernizing COBOL codebases with AI and now I'm concerned all the money in my bank is going to disappear.
Null@itamarst Having been on a team that tried to sell software to a bank, I wouldn't worry. The reason why those codebases are still on COBOL is that selling anything to a bank is a herculean task. Everything is baroque, broken, weird, and poorly understood by the staff who are conducting technological theology more than anything else. The slightest hiccup in the sales process is enough to convince the higher-ups that Mars is waning and that its not a good time for change.
I almost feel a little sorry for the IBM sales people.