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> And your job is now to LLM the YAML that approximates what you want to do

s/YAML/JCL/g

s/LLM/clone and edit/g

And you've pretty much described the mainframe world.

For this reason, one of the things that AT&T thought to do back in the 70s with its new OS, Unix, was to give it to their engineers as a more sensible interface with which to write programs for, and submit jobs to, the mainframe. The version that was built for this purpose was called PWB/Unix (for Programmer's Workbench).



Yes! And I remember "Back to the 70's with Serverless" (2020) as a great article which specifically mentioned JCL and the clunkiness of the modern cloud:

https://archive.ph/sGwuv

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25482410

I referenced it on my blog -- it's a shame the link has rotted now




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