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@sickburnbro LLMs are really good at turning working code into other working code, especially with sufficient testing which with working code can include feeding it the same inputs to see if it gets the same outputs. This is actually significantly easier than creating code from scratch.
hardest hit: proprietary blobs (the objdump'd binary is also "working code"), legacy sunk-cost systems, and companies that fired all the devs 10 ten years ago and have been just milking the cow until it dies off, since.
hardest hit: proprietary blobs (the objdump'd binary is also "working code"), legacy sunk-cost systems, and companies that fired all the devs 10 ten years ago and have been just milking the cow until it dies off, since.
@apropos but why is this even something people care about? how much of that code still exists?
@sickburnbro @apropos lots of corporate dinosaurs still have tons of backroom systems written in COBOL, big banks, etc, but its basically a dead programming language that nobody learns anymore. IBM had a consulting arm that did nothing but support/fix/rewrite old COBOL shit and now Claude is taking their jerbs
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@_oyveyanuddahshoah @apropos I don't understand though, if it's dead what computers are they running it on?