# Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?

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> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1018434/cobol-migration-legacy-code-openai-anthropic)
> **Author**: Robert Hart (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Monday, October 26, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, industry

## Executive Summary
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down.



## Full Coverage
The ancient code holding the world together may meet its match in AI. Today is not that day

What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down

OpenAI thinks it may have a solution. On October 19th, the company touted "substantial improvements" in its latest AI models' ability to migrate aging software written in older programming languages into modern code, which it claims could help organizations with "maintaining and modernizing older systems."

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