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cool-RR | 3 months ago

> What’s left behind are opaque, black box systems with almost no one who understands how they work.

Maybe 50-year-old COBOL programs are the original neural networks.

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brightball|3 months ago

Really good money in it for people who want to learn COBOL though.

mkoubaa|3 months ago

Good money elsewhere for people capable of (a) learning COBOL (b) being effective in a legacy codebase and (c) operating in a large organization in a political savvy way.

le-mark|3 months ago

> Really good money in it for people who want to learn COBOL though.

False, all those jobs were outsource and offshored long ago.