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Anthropic's new AI tool can write 67-year-old COBOL code, sending 115-year-old IBM's stock tumbling by 13% — IBM stock has worst day in 26 years, down 25% MoM and counting (www.tomshardware.com)
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Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 19 hours ago

The buried lede is that it can apparently time travel to write code 67 years in the past /s

(as with others, I don't see this being trusted by anyone sane... so watch the world burn it shall be)