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Refinery x IBM Bob

IBM Bob modifies the COBOL. Refinery checks the work, and every rejection is fed back so Bob stops repeating the same mistakes on your estate.

May 15, 2026
1 min read
Hackathon
COBOL
IBM Z
AI
Refinery x IBM Bob demo

Refinery x IBM Bob

The average COBOL programmer is over 55, and the systems they maintain move trillions a day. IBM Bob can read the code and suggest changes, but the reasons behind it, the threshold hardcoded after an incident in 1987, live in one person's head.

Refinery captures them. Every flag, every rejection, every "this is wrong because" is recorded and fed back into Bob's knowledge base.

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