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Mainframe software will be the most painful to fix.

• ogogmad 3y ago
  Obligatory: Could we use LLMs?
  • tylerrobinson 3y ago
    In case you missed it, that’s IBM’s plan (or at least their marketing team’s plan)! https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ibms-generative-ai-tool-aims-to-refactor-ancient-cobol-code-for-its-mainframes/amp/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/ibms-...
  • snickerbockers 3y ago
    Also obligatory: calendar based cryptocurrency that measures time on the blockchain and also incidentally makes its creator rich by providing him with the largest initial allocation of currency.
  • 29athrowaway 3y ago
    LLMs can suggest migrated code but you still have to review it and test it. And you have to review not only what it migrates but also what it does not. So it does not save you much time.
• everythingctl 3y ago
  Would any “real” mainframe software (not Linux on z) use Unix epoch dates though? I’d have thought mainframe dates were mostly binary coded decimal in EBCDIC and already futureproofed during the y2k mania.