Bank veteran debunks the 'COBOL sysadmin who hates AI' meme: 'it's Java on JBoss and we love AI'
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-23
Responding to the viral claim that banks run on Windows XP with a COBOL backend maintained only by a neckbeard sysadmin who hates AI, an engineer who helped build SEA payment rails counters: the apps are actually Java on JBoss, the Windows boxes are Win2k3 — and "we love AI and everything about it".
The reply has itself become a fresh industry meme: the supposedly irreplaceable gray-beard sysadmin turns out to be an AI fan.
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