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> The only realistic low-error approach is incremental step-by-step migration using Cursor or similar tools. Correction: AI is not deterministic, the only real
by dragonwriter 2mo ago
> The only realistic low-error approach is incremental step-by-step migration using Cursor or similar tools.
Correction: AI is not deterministic, the only realistic low-error solution is not a more complex use of non-deterministic AI, but deterministic transpilation.
The problem is that this results in COBOL-in-Java which runs correctly but it is a nightmare to maintain.
- win311fwg 2mo agoAI (LLMs) is typically not run deterministically for performance reasons, but can be turned deterministic if you want it to be. The output will still be probabilistic, however, so you will be no further ahead. Determinism isn't helpful.
- dragonwriter 2mo agoYou are, of course, correct about determinism. In the grandparent post I was accepting the previous poster’s somewhat sloppy use of “nondeterministic” because I was focussed on other aspects of the discussion.