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GPT-6 Cracks COBOL: 97.9% Migration Accuracy Shifts AI Bottleneck from Code to Enterprise

GPT-6 COBOL migration hits 97.9% behavioral fidelity in OpenAI’s latest benchmark, a 16-fold improvement over prior models, ...
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OpenAI has trained an AI to rewrite outdated programs with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI announced significant performance improvements in its models for programming languages with relatively little code and ...

OpenAI Launches a Coding Model for Older Programming Languages

OpenAI today announced GPT‑6 Astra, an AI coding model tailored for COBOL, Fotran, Visual Basic, and other older programming ...

What to do with VBA when the person in charge has left and no one knows how it works?

When organizing internal systems and folders, there are files you almost always encounter.They are "Excel macros (VBA) where ...

OpenAI announces improved coding capabilities in low-resource languages (COBOL, Fortran, etc.). COBOL migration accuracy increases from 5.4% to 86.6%

On October 19, 2026, OpenAI's official website announced an initiative to improve coding capabilities in "programming ...

OpenAI looks to help banks modernise legacy software their operations still depend on

OpenAI has enhanced its models to work with legacy programming languages like COBOL and Fortran. The AI assists companies in ...
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OpenAI models make huge gains in modernizing decades-old software with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI has reported significant gains in coding across 20 programming languages and migrating legacy software.
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Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...