BlueMonday1984Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st March 2026
IBM stocks take a tumble after anthropic release a COBOL skill - the rational market strikes again. Here’s my take
________cobol is old and scary, so a chat bot spitting out cobol that someone without grey hair cant fully comprehend is enough for them to deem it fully automated and defeat of the dinosaur.
reality you are right, it wont move the needle.
It could produce the stupidest outcome though, where Claude finally manages to either destroy or leak the contents of (or both!) a business-critical system that nobody understands how to rebuild.