• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    If you think migrating off COBOL is bad, imagine how bad moving off COBOL with AI generated code slob will be.

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      Ah, but you see: that’s somebody else’s problem. He’s not going to be the sucker left dealing with an unmaintainable pile of brittle slop, so it’s totally fine /s

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      This. And it’s not like it’s Python or something with a bunch of online / open source content that the model can be trained on. COBOL is probably the least open sourced or publicly talked about language.