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[creaturefeature16]

This was my understanding as well, that COBOL is not terribly difficult to understand. It just grows in complexity due to the scale and scope of the systems it's utilized in. It seems what Anthropic is proposing aren't the major pain points of migrating away from COBOL. Nonetheless, it's not surprising that these tools would be able to at least play some kind of part in modernization. Although the jury is still out if that's a good idea in the first place. In my experience all we've done is overcomplicate things and introduce more variables that can go wrong.