[deterministic]

Software automatically translating COBOL to (say) Java has been around for a long time.

So there is zero value add using AI for this. Quite the opposite given how error prone AI is.

[GenerWork]

If that's the case then why haven't more places moved off of COBOL?

[hippo22]

Isn’t a better question: why would they migrate off COBOL? Their business is working. What’s the impetus to change? It’s not like they need to use COBOL for every new project.

[whobre]

The language itself is the least of the problems. There is a whole mash of IBM mainframe technologies that is much harder to replace.