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IBM's new product offering, Code Assistant for IBM Z, leverages a generative AI model to translate COBOL code to Java.

It’s not the 1st time a language/tool will be lost to the annals of the job market, eg VB6 or FoxPro. Though previously all such cases used to happen gradually, giving most people enough time to adapt to the changes.

I wonder what’s it going to be like this time now that the machine, w/ the help of humans of course, can accomplish an otherwise multi-month risky corporate project much faster? What happens to all those COBOL developer jobs?

Pray share your thoughts, esp if you’re a COBOL professional and have more context around the implication of this announcement 🙏

  • BitSound@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Have you tried including the docs in the prompt as well? I wouldn’t have guessed that S__ is a variable in your example, but I would’ve known that after reading the docs. I’d expect ChatGPT to at least do OK if it had access to the docs.

    • MinekPo1 [She/Her]@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Huh, fair enough, its hard to know whats obvious and whats not.

      As for the second part, to my slight surprise, it did manage to figure it out. I guess I just suck at using LLMs lol

      edit: To clarify, previously I tried only to correct its mistakes over and over again untill I got frustated

      edit2: I still feel like chatGPT is struggling with basics of the language. maybe its just me being shit at using LLMs but smh