Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?

OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted “substantial improvements” in its latest AI models’ ...

Can GPT-6 move old COBOL to Python with identical output? I tested it with 3 models

On October 19, OpenAI announced improvements to coding in older programming languages. Among the newly prepared evaluations ...
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This old programming language is much more important than you might expect. Here’s why

A report suggests the use of one of the oldest programming languages could be a lot bigger than previously estimated. New research on the global scale of the COBOL programming language suggests that ...
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Why COBOL modernization matters, and how devs can react

While modern programming languages like Java and .NET are widely used, COBOL is still very much alive and -- for some businesses -- here to stay. Similar to other old, imperative languages like ...
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IBM, Open Mainframe Project launch initiative to help train COBOL coders

State agencies are struggling to find actively working COBOL engineers who can update their unemployment benefit systems to factor in new parameters for unemployment eligibility. The economic shutdown ...
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GPT-6 cracks COBOL: 97.9% migration accuracy shifts AI bottleneck from code to enterprise

GPT-6 COBOL migration hits 97.9% behavioral fidelity in OpenAI's latest benchmark, a 16-fold improvement over prior models, but enterprise IT teams should understand the gap between benchmark accuracy ...