Re: Article on new mainframe use

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:14:57 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
wrote:

It says:: "please enable JS and disable add-blocker"
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ha

8-)  I do allow JS, but I tightly control it with NoScript.



The article started ok, talking about how certain applications are
latency sensitive and how they could benefit from having an AI be
resident on the mainframe.

Actually a good portion of the article seemed rather positive on the
idea of implementing AI models on mainframes.  Unfortunately it
devolves into implications that AI doesn't play nice with COBOL and
that mainframes can't be programmed in other languages. 

Not knowing COBOL well, I can't speak to the former.  The latter,
however, is bullshit.


from the article:
"
Mainframes do have limitations. They are constrained by the computing
power within their boxes, unlike the cloud, which can scale up by
drawing on computing power distributed across many locations and
servers. They are also unwieldy—with years of old code tacked on—and
don’t integrate well with new applications. That makes them costly to
manage and difficult to use as a platform for developing new
applications.

   :
  
Still, efforts to do away with the mainframe have been going for
years, especially as the number of developers conversant in Cobol—one
of the primary programming languages used in mainframes—quickly
dwindles.
"