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0 pointsdartos1y ago0 comments

> AI works really well on very legacy codebases like cobol and mainframe

Any sources? Seems unlikely that LLMs would be good at something with so little training data in the widely available internet.

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LLMs are good at taking the underlying structure of one medium and repeating it using another medium.

dartosOP1y ago

Assuming both mediums are reasonably well represented in the dataset, which brings me back to my comment

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0 pointsdartos1y ago0 comments

> AI works really well on very legacy codebases like cobol and mainframe

Any sources? Seems unlikely that LLMs would be good at something with so little training data in the widely available internet.

LLMs are good at taking the underlying structure of one medium and repeating it using another medium.

dartosOP1y ago

Assuming both mediums are reasonably well represented in the dataset, which brings me back to my comment

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