OpenAI says new model greatly improves COBOL migration capability, drawing expert skepticism
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On October 19, OpenAI said its latest model's ability to migrate old code such as COBOL to modern languages has greatly improved. In 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 that OpenAI's evaluation is far from real legacy-system modernization; its spokesperson also admitted that legacy code is still far from solved.
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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.
- WebBleepingComputer· Media coverageOpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code(opens the original post in a new tab)
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- WebTechmemeOpenAI says its new models show major performance leaps in low-resource legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, and Visual Basic, used by banks and governments (OpenAI)(opens the original post in a new tab)
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