Tim BrayIBM crashes because we’re gonna YOLO a replacement for banking and credit-card back-ends, replacing billions of lines of COBOL with vibe code. Uh…
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/ibm-crashes-11-as-anthropic-threatens-cobol-empire
IBBoard@timbray "If Anthropic's Claude or other large language models can understand, maintain, modernize, or even replace COBOL systems…"
That "If" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting!
Todd Knarr@ibboard @timbray If it could do that, why isn't Anthropic keeping Claude to themselves and making a fortune doing all that for the Fortune 500 companies, global banks, governments and militaries, all those entities that rely on systems dating back to the 60s and 70s that can't be maintained because they're too complex and can't be replaced or rewritten likewise? Think the FAA's many failed modernization efforts.
Yes, I ask this same question of every "make money fast" scammer.