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Re:Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? by layer8 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:42PM (#46682014)
The critical “why” knowledge often cannot be derived from the code base.

The prohibitions on other companies (LLM providers) being able to see your code also won’t be going away soon.

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Re:Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? by Muromec on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:24PM (#46682623)
Other companies can see the code, that isn’t a problem. The problem with LLM is the idea that the code leaks out to companies other than LLM provider.

That’s something that can be either solved for real or be promised to not happen.

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Re:Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work? by layer8 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:20AM (#46691046)
> Other companies can see the code, that isn’t a problem.

It actually is a restriction in many industries.

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