Anthropic says Claude Code can help streamline ‘cost-prohibitive’ COBOL modernization, but IBM says it’s not that simple – ‘decades of hardware-software integration cannot be replicated by moving code’ | IT Pro

Anthropic claims its Claude Code can streamline COBOL modernization, suggesting AI can automate tasks that are currently cost-prohibitive and time-consuming. However, IBM disputes this, arguing that decades of hardware-software integration cannot be replicated by simply moving code, and that AI tools do not capture the full complexity of legacy systems.

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