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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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 months ago

If anyone legitimately thinks that this LLM was funded to write successfully in that language instead of just enough to affect the stocks, etc., they're simply not paying attention.

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