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IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes (arstechnica.com)
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[–] gopher_protocol@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at the negative response here, but personally this seems like the perfect application of LLMs. Yeah, it'll need to be verified by humans, but so would human-translated code. Using an appropriately trained LLM to do the first pass translation has the potential to eliminate a lot of toil.