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		kshacker 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in... I was just giving my history :) but yes I am sure this could actually get us out of the COBOL lock-in which requires 70 years old programmers to continue working. The last article I could find on this is from 2020 though: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/06/new-jersey-seeks-cobol-progr...

chasd00 3 days ago [–]

Or you could just learn cobol. Using an LLM with a language you don’t know is pretty risky. How do you spot the subtle but fatal mistakes they make?

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