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jillesvangurp 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrot...

Not a bad gig to take if you can swallow your pride a bit.

I bet LLMs can make working with COBOL a lot easier and more fun than it ever was. I bet that's true for a lot of legacy stuff.

the_af 4 months ago [–]

Working with COBOL was never fun, so that's a low bar.

Like others have said, what's valuable is an understanding of the business and legacy cruft that comes with spending time working at this kind of companies/banks/etc rather than knowledge of COBOL.

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