OpenAI Solves Cobol Legacy Code Problems With Fresh Hype

The claim: OpenAI is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages by introducing new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.

The reality: A fifty-year-old COBOL payroll system running on a mainframe at Westpac still requires a senior engineer earning two hundred dollars an hour, not a probabilistic token generator guessing database schemas.

Why should I care? You shouldn't
Enterprise mainframes run on fear and decades of undocumented business logic, not GPT-4 benchmarks.

Read the original: Advancing coding in low‑resource programming languages