nixCraft 🐧I recently saw an IBM presentation on how AI will help eliminate COBOL once and for all. Basically, they are trying to sell a tool that uses their WatsonX cloud service to convert COBOL to Java with the help of the current buzzword named generative AI. Let me tell you, COBOL has outlasted most of the tech that was invented since 1965 and I think it will outlast generative AI, too.
Juli Jane@nixCraft What a nonsensical offering. Stuff that is still running in COBOL is doing so, because huge amounts of money is at risk and not the slightest mistake can be made.
Everyone who has used AI for coding help knows that it can create everything but not code that you can trust without having to check it completely and extensively.
If that was an option, the code in question would have already been rewritten in another language.
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