Retired COBOL programmers came back to fix Y2K, model chat resurrects the lore
repligate · x · 2026-11-01
Citing a chat with Opus 5.5, boomdart notes that Y2K's impact wasn't actually overhyped — engineers simply fixed it in time. repligate adds the lore that retired COBOL programmers came out of retirement to patch decades-old code.
A light, shareable tech-history anecdote surfaced via model conversation.
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