"Zero Day in COBOL": The Joke That Sends AI Twitter Digging Through Punched Cards
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-26
Someone quips about discovering a zero day in COBOL, and the author fires back with a punched-card image: "show me where." A retro dev joke about hunting vulnerabilities in a decades-old punch-card language.
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