@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agoIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1121arrow-down12cross-posted to: programming
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 10 months agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: programming
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 months agoYou could code review the commits it makes I suppose. Saves you having to think of how to refactor something but still makes it fairly easy to mitigate the AI doing something terribly wrong.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilinkEnglish4•10 months agoIs it? These code bases are often extremely fragile. There’s a reason hardly anybody works on them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•10 months agoOkay so why do you add two here? -“bleep bloop!” Sigh
You could code review the commits it makes I suppose. Saves you having to think of how to refactor something but still makes it fairly easy to mitigate the AI doing something terribly wrong.
Is it? These code bases are often extremely fragile. There’s a reason hardly anybody works on them.
Okay so why do you add two here?
-“bleep bloop!”
Sigh