Thank you for sharing your experience. I've been trying to foment discussion like this over on the Discord System Z Enthusiasts site
without getting any traction. We need to be over this tech, not under. It is CRUCIAL to understand its weaknesses while leveraging its strengths to the max. Framing prompts is an essential skill to achieve really useful information, especially telling it how to to interact with you. From: Dave Day <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:52:45 -0500 Subject: Re: Software & AI...I got a wake-up call from Google's Gemini 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. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to mailto:[email protected] with the message: INFO > IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to mailto:[email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
