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How Devin Is Modernizing COBOL at Fortune 500 Companies

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Cognition's AI coding agent Devin has been deployed at several Fortune 500 companies to modernize COBOL systems, including documentation, migration to AWS Lambda, and refactoring.

The post describes challenges unique to COBOL and outlines where agents can currently succeed (batch workloads and documentation) versus where full automation remains out of reach (transactional workloads).

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Fortune 500 companies have staffed Devin on COBOL project — documenting millions of lines of code, migrating a customs workflow from COBOL to AWS Lambda, and refactoring tax ID logic across hundreds of programs.
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