A COBOL programmer, tired of all the extra work and chaos caused by the impending Y2K bug, decides to have himself cryogenically frozen for a year so he can skip all of it.

He gets himself frozen, and eventually is woken up when several scientists open his cryo-pod.

"Did I sleep through Y2K? Is it the year 2000?", he asks.

The scientists nervously look at each other. Finally, one of them says "Actually, it's the year 9999. We hear you know COBOL."

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Well is that because everyone thinks they can get CodeGen to rewrite their COBOL stack and are gonna need someone to un-fuck their codebase in a few years? Because if so, that sounds like a great reason to learn COBOL.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I doubt LLMs are being used much for COBOL, if anything it'll be used in a "replace this COBOL with Java". COBOL is used as legacy code and most of it has already been rewritten in Java.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

raises OOM exception

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

You would also get the best job title ever: "Chief Codebase Unfucker"