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Claude Code modernises a legacy COBOL codebase

A video demonstration of moving an old COBOL system forward.

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  • HN submitter vinhnx Source ↗

Earliest dated source: 15 Nov 2025

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In this Anthropic demo video, Claude Code starts from a mainframe COBOL codebase from an AWS Mainframe Modernization demo. It analyses the business logic, dependencies and data flows, then helps refactor the code into Java while preserving its behaviour.

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  • Hacker News: Claude Code modernizes a legacy COBOL codebase [video]Videoyoutube.com

    Anthropic's demo video.

  • Hacker News discussion (4 points)Forum threadnews.ycombinator.com
    HN submitter: vinhnxPosted 15 Nov 2025

    Hacker News link.

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