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OpenAI targets the COBOL crisis powering core government systems
Oct 26, 2026SOURCE: theverge.com
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, AI coding can shorten migration time, but only if control and verification distribute—otherwise the inversion hardens dependency on a few vendors.
IRS, banks, airlines, and infrastructure still run on brittle legacy code. OpenAI signals an AI-assisted migration path to prevent systemic failure as the old system decays.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.