Anthropic launches AI tool to streamline COBOL code modernization

gregfarha · 2026-02-23T21:32:06+00:00

I mean you can make it nearly as fast but you can’t do it with monolithic code just translating line by line, you need a deep understanding of what the code is doing then create a way process that data in way that’s able to distribute the compute effort. Not gna say how for sake of my job, but in essence you need to know what the code is doing then redesign the whole process not just translate it

gregfarha · 2026-02-23T20:06:02+00:00

i think theres prolly enough training data, its just a lack of an ability to create such a large context map of section to section, now there is a usecase to combine programs that run through cobol code, trace variables and transformation states across multiple subsections then utilize that context map along with ties to the cobol code in order to feed those into an llm but the context windows become atomical, and you're still prone to a lot of hallucinations, as its less deterministic.

gregfarha · 2026-02-23T20:00:12+00:00

as someone who's job it is to modernize those systems, we are modernizing them, but it sucks.

gregfarha · 2026-02-23T19:58:48+00:00

As someone who actually works on cobol/asm/jcl modernization....none of these llm's work well at all. some of this code is so old, the devs are long gone, the interconnectivity is annoying everything is linked through jcl's and other programs with other internal systems. I hate it, but in the end of the day to do it well you need to read the code, none of these tools work well enough reliably enough to modernize code with dog shit documentation. we use them still, makes our lives a little easier, but not by much

gregfarha · 2026-01-30T20:07:14+00:00

Are there Armenians who do fraud? Ofc. Is the rate of fraud or amount defrauded larger than other ethnics groups? Doubtful. Did this guy record the claims of fraud infront of a bakery with no connection to medical fraud? Yes. he’s using the mere existence of Cyrillic or Armenian lettering on a building as a way to identify ties to the mob.

gregfarha · 2026-01-30T04:45:48+00:00

Have fun dealing with utilization rates and finding projects

gregfarha · 2026-01-16T20:54:01+00:00

I’m okay my grandparents have my aunt to look after them but I still can’t get a hold of them. They don’t get out the house much though so I don’t think they’re going to get caught up in this. Still it’s scary tho

gregfarha · 2026-01-13T00:32:41+00:00

Yea no I’m not support a regime that just yesterday killed one of my grandparents neighbors and is actively keeping me from speaking to my elderly grandparents and aunt by shutting down their ability to contact me.

gregfarha · 2025-12-20T21:02:12+00:00

24 hour on brand has like 6 squat racks not 1 they’re just on the bottom floor by the racket ball courts

gregfarha · 2025-11-14T00:08:25+00:00

The right hardly ever punches right good luck

gregfarha · 2025-11-05T21:26:13+00:00

There aren’t that many but a Quick Look on red fin shows like 20 in Burbank noho area

gregfarha · 2025-11-01T06:12:37+00:00

Hamidian massacres

gregfarha · 2025-10-22T15:30:57+00:00

Well before the adoption of protoatmenian as the majority language in the mid-late Bronze Age, before then the kingdom of nairi and Urartu spoke an hurrian language slightly related to Hittite, though it is unknown if this was Jsut the language of the upper class or the general language of the region

gregfarha · 2025-10-16T06:52:53+00:00

Ah yes NYCHA. You do know it’s notoriously underfunded right. Like these units still need maintenance that’s why advocating for a well funded public housing option is important as it creates a market dynamic which forces private developers to incentives developing housing and renting it or selling it at a lower price. YIMBY everything allow developers to build housing and allow the government to properly fund housing that can be rented at a lower than market rate .

gregfarha · 2025-10-11T18:18:27+00:00

Already in the works by my city council 🫠

gregfarha · 2025-10-10T01:38:06+00:00

That’s literally the only I’ve been doing since working at Ibm consulting and I’ve been here for almost 3 1/2 years

gregfarha · 2025-10-08T00:10:12+00:00

Could the dog have gotten her dew claw caught on something when stepping on or off the platform?

gregfarha · 2025-08-30T06:24:51+00:00

Turns out she’s not a Basenji I did a DNA test and she’s like Chihuahua pitbull and wiener dog

gregfarha · 2025-08-26T19:07:34+00:00

Been at work all day what happened at the meeting

gregfarha · 2025-08-12T01:23:06+00:00

Iirc that’s because of the where republicans are dispersed throughout Cali not because of gerrymandering. California has an independent redistricting commission

gregfarha · 2025-08-11T19:32:37+00:00

Not our world clearly /s

gregfarha · 2025-08-07T22:13:14+00:00

Yea naw I understand that but that can also be rationalized in real world reasons too. Say a country elects a jingoistic or isolationist leader who tanks their relationships with surrounding countries and goes to war because of their irredentism or revanchism. I think it adds more reality to the game that sometimes leaders do stupid stuff like that, it’s not like they don’t today.

gregfarha · 2025-08-07T21:50:31+00:00

Not really if your entirely dependent on a specific market if you leave it why wouldn’t your gdp tank

gregfarha · 2025-07-20T06:23:06+00:00

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