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Another issue i have noticed recently with SO is people editing your question purely for a bit of rep, like they will edit it in such a way that it doesn't improve the question in any way, they just found a way to re-word it so they can say they edited it, or they edit it so much it actually changes the question. I had this recently and when i reversed the edit, i suddenly got a downvote (I'm assuming from the user that edited my question, he then edited it again, which i again reversed, then i got an email from a mod saying Im not allowed to undo edits, despite this mods edits making no sense. So after 30 mins fighting a mod I deleted the question. I have used the site for 10+ years and have circa 10k rep, Im not a new user I know how the site works, its just frustrating when people try to just piggy back on your question to get some rep for doing nothing of value.

I'm retired. Cobal is not that mysterious....

If everyone moves to AI generated content which is based on original human content, how are the next generation of AI models going to learn new things if communuites like SO are destroyed by first generation AI? Likewise, where will developers go when they have new questions the AI can't answer and no human communities willing to share answers because they don't want to contribute to future AI models? Ugh...

If you understand Python, PHP, and/or virtual any other procedurally based language, COBOL is easy enough to learn. I just hated the language.

StackOverflow lost me when the moderators started power tripping … no thanks …

The reputation system works against people who generally stfu but have expertise in a few topics.

Great example of how some tools play off others ignorance... If you need very simple very basic something that does nothing, go for co-code.... I would assert they are great for demos to have a product owner in a company to show a proof of concept. Fully customizable.... Right what exactly is "customizable" the ignorant users will assume "Ah i can customized anything n the app i want to... Different widgets, ease (with no code of course) to communicate with my RestAPI endpoints, and on and on because the one looking at it assumes falsely i that no-code customer and all the code in their app will all work together.. Problem is the connection is only made withing the mind of the person review. Then, after all the "doo doo" hits the fan... Oh we allow full customizes of fonts, colors, field widths and any cosmetic screen elements within the core app. Anything you want out side of that, you'll need to download modify the sources to fit your needs, as as you hinted at, the code is worse that terrible...

MBAs are in love with meetings - no wonder they ruined Agile. OTOH, all those meetings did increase Starbucks business 🤪

19:30 btw it was impossible to delete popular answers way ago before AI arrived. I know because I tried to replace my really up-voted but really outdated answer(was not marked as "a solution" btw) with most up-to-date and did not want to edit initial answer into something completely different. Makes sense, every answer and question can be direct-linked from the outside.

It won't work it's ALL been archived and Uploaded ALL of Stack Overflow. Too late

I don't know how this came across my feed, but this is fairly on-point. The company I work for tends to have the problem of force-completing sprints and pushing to prod things that are not fully flushed out. All in the name of having increased communication and output... unfortunately it takes away from the quality of the products themselves. It appears to be a knee-jerk reaction to the fact that the rest of the company didn't used to know what was in the pipeline or when it would be deployed, so they couldn't properly work with and amplify the efforts (ex. support, marketing, etc). However, the way in which it is done seems to have resulted in the devs being burnt-out & non-communicative unless they are commanded to by their superiors, as well as siloing development status to try and offset the unreasonable timeframes... all resulting in the fact that we now _still_ don't know what's going on until it's deployed AND have less communication. All that with what I would consider a skeleton crew of devs.

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5:32 "why do you need this" may sound offensive to you, and I cannot assess blurred question to say it was 100% justified, but it's really typical case when a dev came to some really tricky troublesome approach and is asking to help with that, while original issue/underlying challenge is never mentioned. And if define it you will get way more practical/stable/reliable/readable solution. Happens to me all the way when I ask questions about types gymnastics in Typescript.

Girl.... you and that "LaurieWired" are driving me crazy.... 😍 not only for the tech expertise... but you seam to have a exquisit business oriented logic... I'm gonna tell you what I told "LaurieWired" (and a lot other female-evolved-beings ;-) ) "Marry me!!!" 😘

I used to use SO all the time, but would never dare ask a new question. Now I’m using Gemini Advanced, and I love the writing tone of the good information (and code).

The reason why stackoverflow stinks is: 1) because some devs there get work from it, the gamification element becomes a perverse incentive to downscore comments - potential competitors. I suspect there are also syndicates of users that collaborate to promote each other and attack others. 2) Some people think they are Linus Torvalds. And because he acts like an asshole they think this projects edgy genius (which Torvalds actually is whether you like him or not but they are invariably not). 3) Software developers who deem themselves excellent are typically assholes.

As purely a means to develop then agile is fine but development is not the only game in town and its not what developers care about. What i mean is the people paying for the systems want to know costs in advance, they want to know how money is being gobbled up and all about progress because they have to bid for that money and plan its availability. The recipients need to also fit progress in with business readiness and customer cycles. None of this an agile developer is interested in. The problems of developers being pressured to work quicker, recounted in other comments, is probably compounded because of managers that cannot code themselves and think its just about pressing a few buttons or something, that's not an agile problem, its a problem that businesses think IT managers don't need expensive coding skills.

It's been terrible for years. The admins are pedantic narcissists.

COBOL became popular again in the 90s b/c of Y2K fears. Took a course in it. Very cool program. It did what you told it to do!

It's always the same. You are new, ask a question, and most people only say: RTFM. Very encouraging.

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If I ever make an algorithm at work that does anything abstract it’s mainly my own doing. Most jobs at work just require going through large amounts of info and grooming it, or making a front end for data entry

AI will probably be able to convert code soon - if not already

I personally hated COBOL and wrote a lot of code in APL 😊. Banks and insurance companies are still using that code for stochastic modeling. People are still calling me with siilly questions like what is 'jot dot multiply' like it is not obvious.

I do database engineering. Which means I tend to do work for/with multiple software engineering teams. Which means project managers want me in their SCRUM meetings. A few years ago, I was scheduled for almost 60 HOURS of meetings every sprint. That doesn't include day-to-day admin overhead, like replying to emails and filling out hours-per-project reports, etc. How the heck are you supposed to get any work done when over 75% of your time is spent in meetings? I just started rejecting meeting invitations and told people to schedule time specifically with me (no team discussions like backlog grooming or sprint reviews) when they actually needed something from me. Meeting time is now down to about 1 hour per week, and all of the content of those meetings is actually relevant to me. Since adopting that policy, I've managed to improve database performance company-wide by over 1000%, and to reduce unplanned database downtime from hours-per-week to zero-per-year for two years in a row. Because I have time to actually work on these things.

I done cobol

People make fun of COBOL while trying to debug why their brand new application needs a rewrite because a random maintainer from Bolivia decided to deprecate an obscure package.

back in teh 80s & 90 I had HR reps telling me that entry level was 8 to 10 years expierience. These idiot are also looking for Agile experts. SMH

Graphic interfaces and AI are not really needed where COBOL is used.

Can you imagine - I just did a quick check and even Big Blue has some code up that was updated in 2022... Yeah... Hardly long lost, forgotten... etc.

Cobol is hardly forgotten and any modern programmer can jump to a new language (apart from Mindf*ck perhaps) without too much differently.

Here is your problem - you dont hire a python coder to fix cobalt. That's just Mega Stupid. You don't need a coder to tell you what needs to be done with the data or money, humans choose those things so it's way easier and cheaper to implement a new system based on what needs doing not based on how the code is compared to cobalt. It's the wrong waste of tax payer money to tackle the problem. I don't want to hear none of this crap that the devs need to read cobalt to know what needs doing - if they are that Dumb get out of the tech and software business.

Hmmm...I was in this space over 30 years ago, the platform is called IEF, then it had many reincarnations IEF-->Composer--> Cool:Gen --> CA Gen...I may have missed one or two stage but it was what was called 4th generation language with diagramming, point and click etc. and it generates 3rd generation code such as C, COBOL, etc. We were able to build enterprise level applications using almost exclusively no code approach. with a small number of modules that are hand coded, but the integration was straight forward The quality of the application is in my opinion extremely good, but you would not want to look into the actual code generated, as they are not meant to be maintain by human In fact, in the early stages of adoption, I was told to look into the generated code to see the platform was any good, and after I have done that, my response was the code generated is not maintainable, and you would not want to, you really want to maintain from the platform itself and regenerate the code

Actually you can use COBOL on the web with an API setup and the speed is incredible. I set up an API process using a commercial compiler and also set up an API process using the free GNU COBOL compiler all on a web server. Simply amazing.

Sounds like I should start doing COBOL consulting gigs, use AI to figure it out as a I go and to write most of the boilerplate, and make BANK!

enough people know cobol... They just don't want to tell anyone because it's a PITA

If they could decode Enigma, they can decode this. Lol

I am sure that AI projects are under development to translate COBOL to more modern applications. AI is the perfect tool to achieve this tedious job.

As mentioned the agile itself is less an issue as the fact that management uses that methodology to control people instead of the progress.

I started at NASA in 1966 with ALC, my use of COBOL came later. I retired in 2018 from EDS/HPE still using both.

Niche business opportunity: Turning no-code apps to coded apps.

7:58 +1 on being a Chemical Engineer (+2 actually including my wife). I did a lot of programming in FORTRAN and what you said about COBOL still running the business world is pretty true of FORTRAN running the engineering world.

Cobalt, Fortran, Pl1, assembly language programs do 65 years later exactly the same thing on the same hardware as when written. IF that is what you want, no need to change.

Methodology would be the study of methods. Not a method or set of method. If you are researching methods you would be a methodologist. Your output would be methodology. Agile would be a method. Is not not the study of methods.

The thing about Scrum is that it's fragile. If you implement it as written, it is a complete system that focuses on letting the development team spend a maximum amount of time Making Cool Shit. That is the only guiding star. But when you start removing key stuff without putting other pillars in place, or when the Scrum Master & Product Owner don't serve the team (not the other way around), then the toxic BS basically starts immediately.

1. Observe a type of high functioning software development process. 2. Describe how it works, and how it is so much better than the standard rigid bureaucratic systems everyone is forced to use. 3. Turn it into a new rigid bureaucratic system.

I can program cobol and RPG, both good back end systems programming language, fare more resilient than current languages because the usually are isolated behind firewalls and network devices. This is a biased piece where the narrator is simply parroting text books. Perhaps more people need to know these backend languages, I'm retired but spent 40 years using cobol k and RPG I also know event driven and programming similar to VB and these old languages still are better suited to back end processes than any event driven or html clonez

I retired from software management 3 years ago to change careers, and tbh I'm a little surprised that the needle hasn't moved on this attitude. Devs have wanted change for 10+ years. The Agile Manifesto was published in 2001. What does it take to come up with the next model?

I work at a small company, and we do agile and I feel we do an okay job with it. I wish the sprint cycles were a bit longer because devs dump tasks onto QA at the end of the sprint, and its hard for them. But recently, we added a "good old boy" - part time to "help" with project management - I thought why, our PM is awesome, she is respected, efficient, and lovely to work with. I just scratched my head as I hear the new guy is going to be tightly involved - fully knowing he isnt, and has not - the statement in your video - took a cert and trying to stay relevant by being a "seagull manager", isnt agile at all. It is flying in, making noice and we dont dare say anything, because we would be branded as hard to work with. Hiring your "golf buddy" to come in and fix an already working environment is not agile, it is a lack of trust, understanding and well rubbed me the wrong way, just pay our awesome PM more. Seems like agile in my experience is a tool used to sooth management insecurity and feed a need to control others.

That's terrible... however, I need to tell you that I know how to translate that code. I'm familiar with over 15 programming languages, including assembler... and cobol. So... what do you need to know?