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Good enough for a side project, not good enough for transferring banking system from cobol


That is actually what companies like IBM and Unisys are already doing today, LLM assisted porting.

https://research.ibm.com/publications/enterprise-scale-cobol...


Why not? I think we are perfectly capable on generating a test and validation environment that we can use for correctness. Most likely llms could do this better than engineers with zero to none domain and language knowledge can do these days. From that point on, rewrites would become feasable (not easy, feasable).




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