IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java

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In general I think Hacker News should have a "merge threads" feature. Maybe this could be automated. There were dozens of threads recently about the death of Prigozhin that ideally would have been one.

It's generally done on the first day of a story breaking when people will be reposting the same story from different sources. It's really up to the submitter to use Algolia to check but most don't bother.

In their defense, sometimes the same story has a couple different headlines depending on which site you're posting the story from. Also, sometimes the exact same story gets posted multiple times within seconds of each other. Maybe in that second scenario the HN backend could provide a means of notifying the submitter that this exact link has already been posted?

there is 8 jobs for COBOL developers in my area compared to 255 for java. The 8 are mainly financial. I feel like the banks were not willing to spend money to do the translation over the years and looking for an easy way out with AI.

8 jobs for COBOL is really high relative to Java, where is that?

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