Couldn't find anything, eh? No surprise there at all.

Here's hoping that healthy dose of reality will help you get over your delusions and bizarre obsession with me.

Get well soon!

Okay? That's when it was accepted. It was printed/published in 2024. (I checked.) I also don't know what your "8 months" claim has to do with anything? Do you think that every paper takes years to produce? If you're tenure track, you're expected to publish 2-4 times a year. During active research, people/teams/groups can publish considerably more. I'd say that's just one more thing you don't know anything about, but we knew that about you already. Your ignorance knows no bounds!

You're pretty stupid, so I can only assume that you didn't understand the point I was making. (I must be feeling generous. It's obvious you didn't understand.)

Prove it then. In what "adjacent fields" was this common knowledge? How would you even know? Why is my post is the first time that fact was discussed anywhere online? (You know the reason, you just can't admit it to yourself.) Come on, little troll, show me this discussed anywhere before my post. You can't, of course, because your claim is nonsense and you know it.

The simple fact is that I am exactly what I say I am, a fact that is obvious to everyone, including you, and that makes you crazy. You can deny reality all you want, but it only makes you look even more foolish.

Oh, you silly little troll. you're not fooling anyone. Look at how much energy you've dumped into me, all because I hurt your feelings. You read every single one of my posts going back years, desperately looking for anything you could use denigrate me just to make yourself feel better. Remarkably consistent, aren't they? It's almost like I'm exactly what I claim to be.

If you think your posts make you look "clinical" and detached to the average reader, you're delusional. Well, even more delusional than I thought anyway.

Keep dancing for me, little troll!

Silly little troll. Your posts and bizarre obsession with me strongly suggest otherwise.

Sigh... While your ego depends on denying reality, I really am qualified. Yes, I missed the transformer revolution as I hadn't done any work in AI since ~2017 and was (foolishly) basing my comments then on what I expected the state of the field to be at that time. I had some catching up to do, sure, but it was hardly an impossible feat! The only thing I published in 2024 was indeed in AI, coauthored with a friend of mine, a sociologist, who reached out to me because of my background. I know that hurts your feelings, but you'll get over it.

Silly little troll. Did you even read the comments you're so proud of finding? Nothing about the point I was making changes. If anything, it makes my case stronger.

Silly little troll. At the time, it was common knowledge among those of us actually in the field. It was not common knowledge among the rabble until the 'model collapse' paper was published. You can check the dates yourself against this comment. I'm reasonably certain that I point out the fact that this was common knowledge among those of us in the field at some point. You've read every one of my comments due to your weird obsession with me, so I'm sure you've seen it already.

I'm not going to dox myself, so that's as good as it gets. Good luck finding that discussed anywhere online before my comment was posted. Enjoy the inconvenient facts. At least you're young enough that you probably won't stroke out when you finally realize that you've been deluding yourself for months.

Silly little troll. You're dancing for me just fine!

Wait, didn't you say this was "clinical"? There you go, contradicting yourself again.

Keep crying!

Oops! You've contradicted yourself. Too funny!

Did you know that I have immense power over you? It's true. Look how worked up you get. That's because of your bizarre obsession with me. Maybe your a masochist?

You're delusional. You found one mistake on my part that was 1) not foundational in any way and 2) was later corrected. You, on the other had, have never once admitted error, even though the reason you're so obsessed with me is that I pointed out all the nonsense in just one of your posts. Pathetic.

As for my education, here's some food for thought: Since you've read every single one of my posts, do you remember the one where I offhandedly describe model collapse months before the paper that coined the term? How do you think I was able to do that? Am I psychic? Hmm... It couldn't possibly be that it was because I'm exactly what I say I am. I have a bad attitude, after all!

LOL! Enjoy fuming over that for the next few days. Oh, I can post a link for you, if you've forgotten ... or, more likely, you're desperately trying to forget.

Keep crying, little troll. It won't make you any less of a joke!

Oh, you poor deluded little troll. You can believe whatever nonsense makes you feel better. There are, however, a few facts that you can't change that clearly infuriate you. Let me point them out for you:

1. You used to admire me, until ...
2. ... I embarrassed you when I exposed your deep ignorance and lack of proper education.
3. I was only able to do that because, unlike you, I have an actual education.
4. I'm the same person I was when I was your hero.
5. You're still the same sad little troll you were then, aspiring to things well beyond your reach.

This is the big one:

6. You are still obsessed with me. It's sad, really.

Even you don't believe that. You're still fuming over the time I exposed your unfathomable ignorance! Seriously, seek help. You're unbalanced.

That's ... an interesting take. You don't know many educated people, do you?

Who am I kidding? Of course you don't!

Keep crying, little troll. Maybe someday you'll get over it.

The funniest part about your little tantrum is that while you don't know who I am (because psychos like you exist) you definitely know about something I've done.

Like I said. Cry harder, little troll. Pretending I'm not what I very obviously am won't make your life any better.

Also, I'm old. Four years is nothing. (You'll find that out someday if you somehow manage to avoid drowning yourself in the shower.) I wasn't doing any work in AI after 2017, so yes, I missed it. It happens. That doesn't change the fact that you still don't have a clue. That won't make your laughable post history any less embarrassing for you.

You should probably seek professional help. Your weird obsession with me isn't healthy.

Do you know why you have this weird and creepy obsession with me? It's easy enough to explain. You wish you were me. You wish you had my education and my accomplishments. You wish you could actually do the math, but you don't have the discipline or the intellect, just an over-inflated sense of your own capability. So you pretend that all that complicated stuff doesn't matter because you "understand the concepts", even when it's obvious to everyone else that you don't.

My guess is that you actually believed you were some genius self-taught expert. You can get away with that kind of delusion until as someone actually competent comes along and contradicts your silly nonsense and highlights your ignorance.

You can pretend all you want that I'm something other that what I am, but your sad little attempts to tear me down won't make elevate you or make your posts any less foolish.

I'd honestly feel bad for you if you weren't such a nasty little troll.

A quick look at your posting history proves otherwise. (Projecting much?) From international politics to AI, it's like you get off on highlighting your deep ignorance.

You're such a joke. It's long past time for you to fuck off, little troll. No one cares about your bullshit.

Yep, I said something stupid years ago. You got me. I completely missed the transformer revolution as I wasn't working in the field at the time. I've since published in the field, a thing I can do because I have an actual education, unlike you.

I seriously doubt you want to play the stupid post game. As you know, because you're bizarrely obsessed with me, that isn't going to end well for you. You've proven time and again that you don't have even a basic understanding of, well, anything related to AI. You hate me because I've made that painfully obvious to anyone with the misfortune to stumble on your nonsense posts.

Like I said, cry harder little troll. No one cares about your bullshit. Pathetic.

Cry harder, troll. No one cares about your bullshit.

Seeing what you want to see is not "observation".

Don't waste my time with your nonsense.

That "shrinking pool" is great for developers, not so great for the companies who need them. Of course, if you don't want to pay COBOL developer prices, you can always just grow your own. Hire a few kids, teach them the language and familiarize them with your code base. Pair them with existing staff and before you know it you've got a team of experienced COBOL developers with institutional knowledge at an affordable price. Just make sure you keep them happy while you sprout the next generation.

It's not like COBOL is difficult to learn and use. Compared to most modern languages, it's simple, straightforward, and highly readable. The cowboy
coders might not like the structure it imposes and the lack of wizbang features, but that just makes working with legacy COBOL a lot less painful than, well, legacy code in almost any other language.

When it comes to readable and maintainable code, you could hardly ask for a better language than COBOL. It's not exciting, but when the stakes are high, you want code that is boring and predictable.

Languages that are predominantly imperative/procedural anyway. For the most part. There are quite a few languages that you'd swear were designed to be as difficult to read as possible, and some that openly are. It turns out that a lot of programmers want programming to be as difficult as possible. I suspect its because they're bored, want to gatekeep the profession, have math envy, or just to feed their own ego.

I remember just how much developers hated VB. I never understood why. Sure, inexperienced developers could make a mess, but it was a mess that could be managed. (There's only so crazy a VB app could get. Compare that to modern monstrosities...) It was also so easy to learn and use that I could hire a kid out of high school and expect them to be productive in their first week. An experienced developer could do more in a day with VB than they could in a week with VC++. What's not to love? A language easy enough for anyone to use, like BASIC before it, democratizing computer programming. (Developers would often disparage uses of that language as well, if you recall.) Microsoft essentially killed the product with VB.net, I suspect intentionally. They're developers themselves, after all, and they have salaries to protect and reputations to maintain.

COBOL is similar in that it was designed to be easy enough for business people to be able to read and understand COBOL programs, at least in part. I remember it was still being taught to business majors as late as the early 90's. I have to wonder just how much of the hate comes from it being easy to use, rather than just being old. You don't see people complain the same way about other old languages. LISP and Fortran seem to get a pass, for example.

Nonsense.

You're trolling. How well did that work in the 90's? COBOL on a mainframe is ruthlessly efficient. You'll bankrupt yourself trying to match the throughput with Java on commodity hardware. The resulting "JOBOL" you end up with is also a lot less efficient than you could otherwise manage with java. It's also significantly more difficult to maintain.

You're definitely trolling. You think moving from COBOL on a mainframe to Java in the cloud will result in not just cost savings, but "massive cost savings"? That's beyond delusional.

When you need a mainframe, it is very likely going to be the least expensive option. Cost is a major factor in "cloud repatriation" (moving back to a mainframe from the cloud) after all. The cloud is a lot more expensive than you think ... and a lot harder to escape.

Further proof? I'm still waiting for the initial proof!

LLMs are full of shit ... but that's only been a problem for the last 3 years or so.

Oh, yes. What you lose failing to port your legacy software to the latest fad (or porting it every few years to whatever is in fashion) goes into someone's pocket. The countless billions lost in failed COBOL to Java projects made a lot of people a lot of money. There is a ton of money to be made convincing insecure people that they need to replace their perfectly adequate legacy systems with something new and shiny.

If LLMs could safely port COBOL to other languages then no one would be making massive fortunes doing so. Banks would simply use LLMs to handle the migration themselves.

A bold claim. You probably mean "EVERY bank has someone stupid enough to think they need to get off COBOL".

Why wouldn't we be able to maintain COBOL code? It's not like it's particularly complex. Hell, we were teaching it to business majors as late as the early 90s. If you can't find someone with experience, you can certainly find someone willing to learn COBOL. It's not complicated. It's just ... boring. When it comes to writing maintainable software that will out-live you, boring is exactly what you want.

You're not familiar with modern mainframes, I see.

The market is short-sighted and stupid. Anyone with any brains is buying IBM while it's undervalued.

Chasing fashion and fads is a fools game. How much money did you set on fire after migrating to "the cloud"? How much are you currently burning? To which tech giant have you shacked your company?

It's not too hard to find a company that has made the foolish mistake of migrating from mainframe to the cloud ... only to migrate back once the full financial, technical, and legal impact of their mistake became clear. link

This is delusional thinking.