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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

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https://piefed.social/u/Rekall_Incorporated posted on Feb 25, 2026 04:33

Ancient language is still the bread-and-butter of mainframe systems

https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1814235/anthropic-s-new-ai-tool-can-write-67-year-old-cobol-code-sending-115-year-old-ibm-s-sto

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https://piefed.social/u/CTDummy posted on Feb 25, 2026 07:50
In reply to: https://fedia.io/m/technology@piefed.social/t/3502803/-/comment/14185236

Yeah give me an hour or two with the documentation and I could write COBOL, look out IBM stocks! Will it be elegant or even coherent COBOL? No. Will it at least not contain heaps of in-built time bombs in the form of bugs and security flaws? Also no, but I could write it. As the other commenter said, fuck with the COBOL wizards at your own peril.

https://piefed.social/comment/10284447
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https://lemmy.zip/u/ruuster13 posted on Feb 25, 2026 08:40
In reply to: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1814235/anthropic-s-new-ai-tool-can-write-67-year-old-cobol-code-sending-115-year-old-ibm-s-sto

Haven’t we figured out quantum computing? Surely lithography machines can now be liquidated.

https://lemmy.zip/comment/24868285
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