Vissnobody confident in their own abilities is panicking
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/claude_code_security_panic/?td=rt-3a
the people who are panicking are signaling.
Shafik Yaghmour@shafik there will be, at some point, enough people willing to deal with the pain of moving off ancient stuff like that. it may suck at first, but it will basically have to happen at some point because nobody is exactly teaching fortran and cobol these days, so soon as those engineers age out, the shit becomes egyptian heiroglyphs
It is basically already like that, I think Vernor Vinge got it right. If we are still around ages from now it will be layers and layers of legacy code no one understands all the way down.
It is a very interesting thought process for someone who is in the depths of software development in big tech to really plan out what such a long term migration would look like just for one company. Once you get it, it is very humbling to realize how hard it really is.
I am also read "Thinking in Systems" and it is a good book to read if you are thinking about this kind of stuff: