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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 23:00:45 JST nixCraft 🐧

   BM built a new, state-of-the-art generative AI code model to transform legacy COBOL programs to enterprise Java with a high degree of naturalness in the generated code https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/ibm-taps-ai-to-translate-cobol-code-to-java/ There goes high paying COBOL dev jobs to /dev/null.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 23:01:34 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     Okay, listen, despite IBM and AI's claims, banks are likely to wait to adopt COBIL to Java AI technology immediately due to the sensitive nature of money. It is more *complicated*. That code has existed since the 60s. You don't want to piss off those rich folks or mess with anyone's money. This is also your reminder to download and check your bank statements monthly so that if AI messed up data, you can go back and claim your money, at least in theory.

   • James Maes (koftwentytwo@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 23:04:14 JST James Maes

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     • Darin Kelkhoff

     @nixCraft @dkelkhoff this made me think of your last company.

   • Brad (burkettlabs@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 23:53:06 JST Brad

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     @nixCraft working in FinTech has taught me that unless this is free banks really don’t want to pay to change something that works. Knowing IBM this won’t be cheap either.

   • Terminhell (terminhell@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 04:47:08 JST Terminhell

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     @nixCraft idk, having something critical like financials run on Java seems like a bad idea? I'm no dev, but my experiences with Java have been mixed.