I asked Claude 3.5 Haiku to write me a quine in COBOL in the bs2000 dialect. Claude does now that creating a perfect quine in COBOL is challenging due to the need to represent the self-referential nature of the code. After a few suggestions Claude restated its first draft, without proper BS2000 incantations, without a perform statement, and without any self-referential redefines. It’s a lot of work. I stopped caring and moved on.

For those who wonder: sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/…/495d8008/ has an example.

Colour me unimpressed. I dread the day when they force the use of ‘AI’ on us at work.