Middle son was at the house yesterday. He was explaining to me how he
used chatGPT and Gemini to solve some issues he was having with Epic
Games IDE, Unreal Engine. He was upgrading one of his games from a
previous release of the code to the current, and it was giving him a lot
of errors that he was not able to track down. In frustration, he turned
to chatgpt. Took him a while to get the question framed correctly, but
the thing spit out a power shell bash script that took care of the
errors...he was able to compile the code. Tried running the code, and it
immediately terminated without an error message, but with a return code
8. Tried asking chatgpt for help, but it then came back and said he had
hit his question limit for the day. Wouldn't answer anything. He then
asked Google's Gemini for help. Got the answer right away. Turned out
the names he chose for some of the folders in the project exceeded a max
length allowed.
I then thought, ok, lets see what it can do with some z/OS assembler
questions. I don't remember the exact question, but I asked Gemini for
an example of how to create and run and SRB on an IBM mainframe. It spit
out some code in about 3 seconds. Couldn't really see the code that well
as it was in a small window on his phone, but it looked to be legitimate
assembler to schedule an SRB. It was also 'kind' enough to give me a
verbal lecture on why I probably really wanted to run the code in TCB
mode, as SRB mode code was usually reserved for system level functions.
I then asked it for an example of an FRR routine. It came back with
something about real estate portfolios. My son says to re-word the
question. Use some different terms. I asked it for an example of a
functional recovery routine for an SRB routine. Came back almost
immediately with an example. Verbal explanation involved retry or
percolation, along with taking a dump and how to use logrec for further
problem solving.
-- Dave
On 2/23/2026 2:18 PM, Dick Williams wrote:
Software companies are in peril. The stocks of nearly all of them are in bear
market territory or worse. Why? AI will likely make many of them obsolete.
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