AI rises to the challenge with COBOL

From Connecticut to California, states across the country are in desperate need of COBOL - Common Business-Oriented Language - programmers. When the deluge of coronavirus-related unemployment claims began pouring in at the pandemic's onset, many of the decades-old government computer systems responsible for processing those claims struggled and, in many cases, crashed. Steve Brothers is President at Phase Change. With nearly 17 million unemployment claims filed between March 15 and April 4 of 2020, the exceptionally large volume of traffic and number of requests the U.S.'s unemployment systems experienced put myriad states behind the proverbial eight ball since they don't have the resources to maintain them. Consequently, the global crisis has left many state governments scrambling in search of COBOL-fluent coders.