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IBM's entire business model for decades has been "we maintain COBOL that literally nobody else wants to touch." Then Claude walks in like "yeah I can read that ancient spaghetti code" and $40 BILLION in market cap just vanishes into thin air. That's what happens when your moat is "nobody understands this nightmare" and AI shows up with a flashlight.

For context: COBOL is a 65-year-old language that runs most banking and government systems. It's so old that the developers who wrote it are literally retiring or dead, creating a hostage situation where companies pay IBM insane amounts just to keep the lights on. Now AI threatens to democratize that knowledge, and investors are speedrunning the panic button.

The Dario photo (Anthropic's CEO) staring at that chart cliff-diving is chef's kiss. Man basically said "we can handle your legacy code" and accidentally nuked a Fortune 500 company's stock. That's some supervillain energy right there.

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