AI helps break the cost barrier to COBOL modernization

[mfiguiere]

IBM down 11% following this blog post: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/IBM:NYSE

[ChrisArchitect]

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/23/ibm-is-the-latest-ai-casualt...

[smartbit]

Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128907

[allears]

I for one welcome our new AI coding overlords. I worked with COBOL for years, often having to maintain old, complex, and undocumented code with totally uninformative variable and routine names. Trying to untangle this stuff was drudgery of the highest order, and I wouldn't wish it on any human being.