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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I wonder how much open source COBOL is out there for LLMs to harvest.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    The thing people always overlook is that these legacy systems are only still running because they're super important. Nobody's hiring a junior COBOL dev to maintain NORAD, and hopefully nobody's contemplating putting ChatGPT in charge either.

    The move if you want this kind of job is to learn a language that's not quite a dinosaur yet, and have 20 years experience in 20 years. Perl or PHP maybe.

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