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September 8, 2027
In 11 monthsYou are fighting a losing battle against time and obsolete COBOL syntax.
Senior COBOL expert (trapped in a 1980s mindset)
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Turning ancient spaghetti code into modern cloud services.
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translates legacy procedures to cloud-native code
Maintaining legacy banking systems with ancient code and complex batch job scheduling to keep the world running.
The one thing AI can't do
You are the only one who understands the undocumented quirks of this forty-year-old codebase.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 3
Smart agents scan your codebase to document undocumented business logic.
Month 3
Neural nets start running batch job simulations to verify output accuracy.
Month 5
Small modules are moved to cloud-native microservices by background processes.
Month 8
Automated schedulers take over managing the nightly data cycles.
Month 11 · D-Day
The final mainframes are powered down as code migration completes successfully.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.4%
Excessive
Coffee consumption during debugging
Too many
Hours spent on batch jobs
Billions
Lines of COBOL remaining
Your severance
A vintage punch card and a handshake.
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