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Infrastructure so massive and so important that it underpins our entire civilization. Then people start retiring, forgetting how it all works. The people will take weird automatic half measures to fix what they don't understand with neural nets. Then it really gets interesting.

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To some extent, this is happening now in the banking industry. There are millions of LOCs that are written in Cobol that are part of our banking infrastructure but the people that know how to keep the code working are retiring and no new coders are being trained.

Yes new coders are trained in cobol and csharp to migrate and also maintain.

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