Mixed
Generally speaking any kind of AI is relatively hit or miss
thevinter on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?”
Helped: Debugging small errors with stacktraces and hand-holding.
Got in the way: Confidently wrong outputs without sufficient context or RAGs.
Not a COBOL dev, but I work on migrating projects from COBOL mainframes to Java. Generally speaking any kind of AI is relatively hit or miss. We have a statically generated knowledge base of the migrated sourcecode that can be used as context for LLMs to work with, but even that is often not enough to do anything meaningful. …