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Rather than replacing COBOL systems outright, banks are increasingly building artificial intelligence layers around them. AI tools are being used to interpret legacy code, document system behavior, ...

The week Anthropic's COBOL blog post vaporized $40 billion from IBM's market cap, I was debugging a PIC clause parser. I spent the past six months building a COBOL migration tool called Easy COBOL ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

COBOL stands for Common Business-Oriented Language and was created in 1959. It was partly drawn on the work of computing pioneer Grace Hopper and was built for a single purpose: processing business ...

IBM’s stock experienced one of its biggest single-day drops on February 24, in over 25 years, due to market concerns about new AI tools (like Anthropic’s Claude Code) that claim they can automate the ...

COBOL, which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language, is a programming language created in 1959 which is still widely used for business and financial data processing. The language was created by ...

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