Advancing Coding in Low-Resource Programming Languages
OpenAI is improving ChatGPT coding for low-resource languages including COBOL and SQLite
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT's software engineering capabilities to cover low-resource programming languages, with new benchmarks and evaluations targeting SQLite and COBOL migration. This matters because COBOL underpins trillions of dollars in legacy banking and government infrastructure, and AI-assisted migration has become a high-value enterprise use case. The release of new evaluations signals OpenAI is investing in measurable progress on these niche but economically significant language domains.