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IBM share price is back to where it was pre-Anthropic press release.


Sure, but imagine how much higher it would have gone in the counterfactual world where Anthropic didn't have an automatic port-from-Cobol tool.


Remember that those who trade on the stock market are not programmers with decades of experience writing cobol.




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