AI tsunami dramatically reshapes software. Demand remains, but AI tools are transforming the environment.
While AI threatens modern programming languages, COBOL will be in demand.
COBOL isn't programming—it is digital archaeology and detective work, deciphering decades of business evolution, regulatory changes, and layers of patches and repatches.
While AI transforms software development banks, insurance companies, the whole business world cannot survive without the COBOL programmers and they are retiring en masse. 300 billion lines of active code! 75 percent of the financial transactions go through COBOL.
In this session I explore the intricacies of COBOL systems, the lucrative opportunities that await, and how developers can become the essential keepers of the global digital infrastructure.
AI eventually will analyze, understand and maintain legacy COBOL code, but it will take time. Thus, a COBOL career is a good career choice.