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: Deciphering the Spells Left Behind by Retired COBOL Programmers and Recanting Them in Modern Languages

On October 19, 2026, an announcement posted by OpenAI on X caught my eye. It stated that the latest AI models are now capable ...
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OpenAI models make huge gains in modernizing decades-old software with 97.9% accuracy

OpenAI has significantly improved its models’ ability to write software in older programming languages ...
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87.4% average across 20 languages in the SQLite implementation test

OpenAI has released results for MultiLangBench, which asks models to build a SQLite-compatible engine in 20 languages, and ...
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Google quietly invented these 3 programming languages, and one powers Docker and Kubernetes

Google invented some important programming languages, and you’ve probably used apps built with them without knowing it.

The Tragedy of AI Coding

AI-assisted software development could have liberated programmers. Instead, it has become the latest way for Big Tech to ...

Tool choice, Part 1: When agents write, languages lose importance

The Rails creator has his agents write the HEY backend in Rust. I think that’s right: languages lose importance, what matters ...
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Elixir Programming: How it Powers Scalable and Real-Time Applications

Overview:  Elixir is designed for building scalable and maintainable applications on the Erlang VM. Its lightweight processes and message-passing mode ...