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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by credit_guy on Sunday December 03, 2023 @03:39PM (#38510542)
> it's a management problem, and no AI tech is going to fix that.

There are no absolute "management problems". Something that is a management problem when the effort required is 1000 man-years, may stop being so when it's only 100 man-days.

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by hobs on Sunday December 03, 2023 @06:32PM (#38511912)
Given the decision would shrink a kingdom or put someone powerful out of a job it cannot be solved with AI making it easier.
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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by janalsncm on Sunday December 03, 2023 @07:00PM (#38512099)
That kingdom is shrinking already as people retire. Converting COBOL into Java means your kingdom can expand.
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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by sublinear on Monday December 04, 2023 @12:40AM (#38514071)
Management problems have a tendency to snowball and land on the next manager.

Higher authority doesn't understand it and the subjects don't care.

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Re:The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore by rubyfan on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:02AM (#38516240)
I’m not convinced the proposed solution is that. This pitch has been around for a long time, before LLM it was some unnamed proprietary technology and after LLM it’ll be something new. The reality is this stuff is hard even when 80% can be automatically converted.
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