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Legacy COBOL code is largely used in critical systems like those of banks and airlines. What could go wrong with having that code rewritten by stochastic parrots who get programming answers wrong half of the time?
The AI would likely be trained or fine tuned specifically for COBOL. In these very narrow use cases AI can find some things that humans can miss.
Google did this recently on a sorting algorithm and was able to speed it up by 70%: More info here
It's cool for small and easily testable functions like sorting, but to refactor large amounts of code? No thanks. Would be great if it could leave comments on my pull request though.
Try PR-Codex
I thought it would leave comments on individual lines of code with feedback and code quality, but seems like it just summarizes what the pull request changes
the summary stuff would be better if it was per file instead of overall
Hm don't think I can help you with that unfortunately.
It's nice for quickly seeing what a PR is about, not much more