OpenAI touts major gains in AI-powered COBOL migration for aging legacy systems
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-26
The IRS, banks, airlines and governments worldwide still run on untouchable COBOL code. On October 19, OpenAI claimed its latest models show "substantial improvements" at migrating legacy languages into modern code, potentially unlocking decades-old infrastructure that nobody dared touch. The Verge breaks down what this could mean.
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