Comment by gtirloni
20 days ago
Your task is certainly doable though.
You can ask AI to focus on the functional aspects and create a design-only document. It can do that in chunks. You don't need to know about COBOL best practices now, that's an implementation detail. Is the plan to modernize the COBOL codebase or to rewrite in a different language?
See what this skill does in Claude Code, you want something similar: https://github.com/glittercowboy/get-shit-done/blob/main/get...
First off, what you shared is cool, thank you. Especially considering it captures problems I need to address (token limitations, context transfer, managing how agents interact & execute their respective tasks).
My challenge specifically is that there is no real plan. It feels like this constant push to use these tools without any real clarity or objective. I know a lot of the job is about solving business problems, but no one asking me to do this has any idea or defined acceptance criteria to say the outputs are correct.
I also understand this is an enterprise / company issue, not that the problem is impossible or the idea itself is bad. Its just a common theme I am seeing where this stuff fails in enterprises because few are actually thinking how to apply it... as evidenced by the fact that I got more from your comment than I otherwise get attempting to collaborate in my own organization