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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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[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 8 points 17 hours ago

I would argue that learning those intricaties is a part of learning the language. Otherwise you just know the syntax, somewhat like a LLM.