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AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization
- mfiguiere 8mo agoIBM down 11% following this blog post: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE
- ChrisArchitect 8mo agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualty-shares-are-tanking-on-anthropic-cobol-threat.html https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualt...
- allears 8mo agoI for one welcome our new AI coding overlords. I worked with COBOL for years, often having to maintain old, complex, and undocumented code with totally uninformative variable and routine names. Trying to untangle this stuff was drudgery of the highest order, and I wouldn't wish it on any human being.
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- smartbit 8mo agoDiscussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128907