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

[rubyfan]

Judging by the branding this is just an attempt to capitalize on the mindshare around LLM and GPT. Recall about 5-8 years ago they tried to sell the notion of huge cost savings replacing humans with the jeopardy champion and tech executives ate it up for a while.

[kolinko → rubyfan]

Well, they essentially had the same idea as OpenAI with GPT, just they failed to really build it because transformers weren't invented yet.

But their business cases were similar to what we see now with LLMs.