Pedro Domingos: COBOL will outlive Claude Code
pmddomingos · x · 2026-10-30
ML scholar Pedro Domingos sparked debate with a pointed one-liner: "COBOL will still be around long after Claude Code is dead" — pushing back on the narrative that AI coding tools will quickly sweep away decades-old legacy systems.
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