Comment AI makes this problem moot (Score 1) 99
a good general software engineer with an agentic-ish AI IDE like Cursor, will have no problem fixing cobol. I don't know php, or wordpress, or SQL, or how to mitigate a ddos, or how to write an MCP plugin for Qt Creator, or how so use cloudflare to do the five separate things i need it to do, or any of the other DOZEN things that i accomplished last week, but with claude and several "make sure it passes the pinning and unit tests" prompts, I got it all working.