@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agoIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1122cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1122external-linkIBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframesarstechnica.com@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square16fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoYou could code review the commits it makes I suppose. Saves you having to think of how to refactor something but still makes it fairly easy to mitigate the AI doing something terribly wrong.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 years agoOkay so why do you add two here? -“bleep bloop!” Sigh
minus-squareAggressivelyPassivelinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 years agoIs it? These code bases are often extremely fragile. There’s a reason hardly anybody works on them.
You could code review the commits it makes I suppose. Saves you having to think of how to refactor something but still makes it fairly easy to mitigate the AI doing something terribly wrong.
Okay so why do you add two here?
-“bleep bloop!”
Sigh
Is it? These code bases are often extremely fragile. There’s a reason hardly anybody works on them.