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by SonOfLilit 810 days ago
Look, nobody is going to perform as well on complicated programming talks using cobol as with python. But knowing everything you said, I was amazed at how good it was. Try it.

Also, nobody needs to do complicated coffee talks with cobol, it wasn't meant for it. What we do need a lot of is translating cobol to python or Java.
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skissane 810 days ago
To rephrase my point: the gap between the best an LLM can do and the best an experienced human can do, is likely larger for COBOL than for more mainstream languages, simply because LLMs have a lot more opportunities to gain "experience" with those more mainstream languages than they do with COBOL.

What you are saying may well all be true, but it doesn't contradict what I'm saying.

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brailsafe 810 days ago
Are you hiring for it? I don't know COBOL, but do know python and Java to some extent, and enjoy esoteric legacy problems
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neodypsis 810 days ago
You can know learn Cobol online, see IBM's offering in coursera, e.g.: https://www.coursera.org/learn/cobol-programming-vscode
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SonOfLilit 807 days ago
I'm only hiring locally in Israel right now
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