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Tempest1981 10 hours ago

IBM shares fell 13% in a single day in last month:

"IBM Sinks Most Since 2000 as Anthropic Touts Cobol Tool"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-sinks-most-since-2000-210...

It may not be "cheap", but possibly cheaper than IBM's consulting.

scorpioxy 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I skip news like that. It's an AI business hyping one of their tools in a major AI hype-cycle. Shares can go up and down based on sentiment. My point still stands.

To me, there's a big difference between saying that migration projects can now be assisted with some AI tooling and saying that it is cheap and to just get Claude to do it.

Maybe I am out of touch but the former is realistic and the latter is just magical hand-waving.

PurpleRamen 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Share-pricing operates on illusions. Just selling a plausible claim can influence the price. Whether they will deliver at the end, doesn't matter at that moment.

eru 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Feel free to correct the market and make oodles of money.

kelipso an hour ago | parent [-]

Risk my money based on a bunch of wallstreetbets idiots yoloing their money using a random number generator and seeing the word AI on twitter posts, sure lol. I’ll let you play in that cesspool.

eru 4 minutes ago | parent [-]

I am!

Marazan 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

thaumasiotes 5 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

Maxion 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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