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Tag Archives: ai history

A geological cross-section of software eras: machine code, COBOL, Java, cloud, AI agents, prompts, vector DBs. All stacked like archaeological layers. At the top: chaotic glowing AI systems. At the bottom: old stable layers.

AI Legacy Code – The New COBOL

Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Topics in AIBy Mat Newcomb18 May, 2026

One of the areas where large language models (LLMs) like Anthropic’s Claude have made substantial progress is in generating computer code. Just as LLMs can produce outputs in English or Spanish, they can do so in computer languages like Python, Java, Ruby and more. This is all very cutting edge, and the true effect on…

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