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[DISCUSS] IBM using LLMs to convert COBOL to Java (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bahmanm@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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It's not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what's it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you're a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

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[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think IBM is going to immediately regret this immediate decision.

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

But then at least by the time they get it working, they'll have enough practice to make a new llm to convert their Java code to a useful programming language.

Java is definitely a programming language but good luck actually getting it to compile on anyone else's machine besides the person who wrote the project.

[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It's definitely one of the programming languages of all time.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Well that's a new one, in most cases modern Java projects are built by simply running "./mvnw package", on every platform.