@fne8w2ah to TechnologyEnglish • 1 year agoIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16arrow-up1123arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year 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•1 year agoIs it? These code bases are often extremely fragile. There’s a reason hardly anybody works on them.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year 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