Someone created a framework for evaluating LLM's ability
to write Cobol.

https://bloop.ai/blog/evaluating-llms-on-cobol

For those that do not bother reading the entire article,
then the conclusion at the bottom is:

<quote>
GPT-4 - the best-performing model - generates a correct solution for
10.27% of problems. Compare this to HumanEval, where it solves 67% of
problems. CodeLlama, one of the best open-source coding models, fares
even worse, with the 34b variant only clocking 2%. COBOLEval is hard.

Looking at the failure cases, we can see that state-of-the-art LLMs
struggle to generate COBOL that even compiles. Only 47.94% of GPT-4
generated solutions compile with GnuCOBOL.
</quote>

Arne

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