Monday Morning Moan - messing with our safest IT systems might be the worst thing the AI vandals have come up with...so far!

Anthropic's had a busy week, of course, but there's been more going on than just spats with the US Department of War. To my count, the firm has disrupted Wall St tech stock valuations at least twice already this year (Claude Cowork plugins shaking up legal tech stocks, then Claude Code Security doing the same for cybersecurity firm market caps), spawning the so-called SaaSpocalypse.

So, one more time for luck shouldn't really come as a surprise, I suppose. The victime this time - the huge legacy COBOL market, as in all the infamously (and allegedly) ‘spaghetti code’ written in the 1960s but which still persists, for no good reason, it seems, in all those banks, insurance company back offices, transactional stacks, airline booking system and more than a few central government systems.

With breezy confidence, this time Dario Amodei’s airstrike is on what the company’s official ...