> I don’t know cobol and I do know java, but that doesn’t enter into it from my perspective. Shouldn't it though? Maybe you (as an individual) would charge (or

> I don’t know cobol and I do know java, but that doesn’t enter into it from my perspective. Shouldn't it though? Maybe you (as an individual) would charge (or expect to be paid) more to maintain LLM code than bespoke code, banks know they won't have to pay as much to you (as a member of the collective of java engineers) than they would to a cobol dev. Really the implicit assumption is that cobol devs are fewer and more expensive than java devs.