Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?
Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?
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On October 19, OpenAI said its latest model has greatly improved its ability to migrate old code such as COBOL to modern languages; in its tests, GPT-6.1 Sol's behavior retention accuracy reached 87% at low reasoning effort and rose to 98% at high reasoning effort. But experts pointed out that rewriting code is not the same as replacing systems, and OpenAI's evaluation is far from real legacy system modernization. An OpenAI spokesperson also acknowledged that legacy code remains far from solved.