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Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java

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127 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 03 Dec 23 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.237s | source
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dun44 ◴[03 Dec 23 17:25 UTC] No.38508793[source]▶
Regarding IBM's use of technology widely known for hallucinating to translate sensitive source code: it sounds weird you think the primary objective here is to deliver something that properly translates from one language to another. But it is not - the primary objective is to get money from customers and investors. Delivering something that works is secondary, and honestly, optional.

Many things in IT start making a whole lot more sense once you reexamine your beliefs about their purpose.

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1. kjellsbells ◴[04 Dec 23 13:28 UTC] No.38516931[source]▶
Indeed. If you are the board of any publicly traded technology company right now, and you don't have an AI strategy that you are telling the market, your stock is going to take a beating as investors flock to those who do. The strategy doesnt need to have a lot of meat behind it. Once it was crypto, now its AI, tomorrow it'll be something else. But AI has really captured people's imaginations, which means even the most foggy investors are looking at it. That drives leadership behavior more than the tech itself