In previous posts titled Anthropic code or Hypethropic code? and Anthropic code: No Revenues Plan as Immaturity i ndicator I was very skeptical about current Anthropic code capabilities. This post is about the unrealistic dream of transforming Legacy Mainframe COBOL Systems to modern systems by using Claude code COBOL tool. More than 50 years ago I was a COBOL Programmer. Afterwards I was a Systems Programmer and a CTO. I participated in Mainframe systems architecture changes, replacement and maintenance, as well as Mainframes migration projects and Modernization projects. The main issues are not pure coding issues. Some of the major obstacles will be dwelled upon in the following paragraphs. Functionality and flow of the System Usually nobody knows and understands it completely. Claude code COBOL tool will create System which is not downward compatible. The systems were written decades ago and...
The vendors Survival posts are about the long time survival probability of leading IT vendors and Risks threatening their Long Term existence. I wrote posts about IBM , HP . Apple , Facebook etc. The most relevant posts related to Open AI are the posts about Google and Microsoft . It is possible to compare the AI Revolution to two previous revolutions. The first is the Industrial Revolution . The second is the Internet . Bubble Comparing current AI market to the Internet of the beginning of this century may be useful. I remember the dot-com bubble . A Seed Venture Capital rejected my proposal to extend the Scalability and Robustness of Microsoft's Windows operating system. The reason for rejecting it was "It is not pure Internet solution" i.e. it is applicable to Web Server but also applicable to internal Data Center systems. Currently AI is the Hype stage of Gartner's Hype Cycle. Probably, the curre...