Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, which sends 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting
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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, which sends 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting
IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling
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https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ibm-stock-takes-a-13-percent-whiplash-after-anthropic-announces-an-ai-tool-for-writing-cobol-code-stock-has-worst-day-since-2000-and-is-down-25-percent-mom-and-counting -
Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, which sends 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting
IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ibm-stock-takes-a-13-percent-whiplash-after-anthropic-announces-an-ai-tool-for-writing-cobol-code-stock-has-worst-day-since-2000-and-is-down-25-percent-mom-and-counting@tomshardware As a retired, 15-year COBOL programmer for a Canadian bank, I can virtually guarantee any use of AI to modify existing COBOL code in any significant way will lead to disastrous results. Online COBOL code (as opposed to batch or offline code that runs overnight and produces reports) is especially brittle and easily broken when handled by an “answer-guessing bot.”
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@tomshardware As a retired, 15-year COBOL programmer for a Canadian bank, I can virtually guarantee any use of AI to modify existing COBOL code in any significant way will lead to disastrous results. Online COBOL code (as opposed to batch or offline code that runs overnight and produces reports) is especially brittle and easily broken when handled by an “answer-guessing bot.”
I remember when I was learning #COBOL, back on the earthen floor in the monastery school for orphans. The old monk said "COBOL was designed so EXECUTIVES could read code".
Since AI passed a corpo executive in capability in 1874 , I think we will be all right !
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@tomshardware As a retired, 15-year COBOL programmer for a Canadian bank, I can virtually guarantee any use of AI to modify existing COBOL code in any significant way will lead to disastrous results. Online COBOL code (as opposed to batch or offline code that runs overnight and produces reports) is especially brittle and easily broken when handled by an “answer-guessing bot.”
@Kimota94 @tomshardware out of curiosity, what did testing and validation process look like in that line of work? Most of my own experience with (mostly C-family) legacy projects has been that they lack the testing base that an LLM would require to produce anything fit for production.
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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, which sends 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting
IBM stock takes a 13% whiplash after Anthropic announces COBOL AI tooling
#hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ibm-stock-takes-a-13-percent-whiplash-after-anthropic-announces-an-ai-tool-for-writing-cobol-code-stock-has-worst-day-since-2000-and-is-down-25-percent-mom-and-counting@tomshardware I don't understand why this would make IBM's stock decrease, did they have a monopoly on COBOL programmers or something?
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