AI Migrates Legacy COBOL

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Hacker News AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included Article, Comments arXiv.org Agentic Method for Deterministic Validation of Legacy Code Migration arXiv

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A Hacker News-style post announces that an AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, while humorously preserving the original bugs. The joke mocks the idea that automated modernization can reproduce legacy software’s flaws instead of fixing them, making it a reaction to questionable AI-generated code or risky refactoring. EN: A Hacker News-style post announces that an AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, while humorously preserving the original bugs. The joke mocks the idea that automated modernization can reproduce legacy software’s flaws instead of fixing them, making it a reaction to questionable AI-generated code or risky refactoring.

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