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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by giancarlostoro on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:16AM (#50365848)
> to not address the root issues but just scaffold on top of them and try to hide the ugly bits under the carpet, I feel a bit vindicated.

There's only one area I sorta give a pass, and that's mainframes. It takes an insane amount of physical servers to replace a mainframe. Why IBM didn't invest more into making mainframes a drastically better platform for devs is beyond me. I don't know that any other server platform has ever achieved the level of uptime a mainframe has.

Still, it is no excuse to leave them with ultra legacy code that remains unmaintained for decades.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by KellyCriterion on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:13AM (#50366707)
...because Mainframes were not thought for Devs & Tech People, but Business and Compliance Clowns enabled to do some stuff without CS degrees :-D
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by giancarlostoro on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:44PM (#50371237)
Sure, but IBM could have changed all of that and made mainframes drastically more approachable and viable.
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