OpenAI details work on improving ChatGPT in low-resource programming languages, with new evaluations for software engineering, SQLite and COBOL migration
Coding ability beyond mainstream languages is getting dedicated evaluations, with legacy migration as the most direct use.
// Key points
- OpenAI published a post on how it is improving ChatGPT across low-resource programming languages.
- The post introduces new evaluations in three areas: software engineering, SQLite, and COBOL migration.
Builder's takeWorth watching if you deal with legacy systems: COBOL migration making it into an official evaluation means vendors now treat it as a real use case. Don't wait for leaderboards; take a slice of your own legacy code, translate it and run the existing tests, since the pass rate says more than any score.
// Background · from #OpenAI
Full timeline →- Oct 20 Copilot retires six models including GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 on October 19, pointing users to GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna
- Oct 17 OpenAI opens prompt-to-voice for GPT-Live to all API customers, free to create, and adds nine German, French, Hindi, Japanese and Korean voices
- Oct 16 Codex CLI 0.163.0 lets you steer mid-response, runs read-only tools in parallel and checks network permission before DNS lookups