OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap
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THE AI ANGLE
Translating legacy COBOL codeOpenAI recorded a large rise in its COBOL migration score. This shift offers engineering teams fresh evaluation data for legacy software modernization. Practitioners can test these score gains against working enterprise codebases.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can debate whether benchmark migration scores match the real difficulty of updating legacy software systems.Read the original at thenewstack.io Generate teaching or study materials
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