Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

(hypercubic.ai)

26 points | by sai18 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • sixtyj 25 minutes ago
    If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So letting an LLM loose on a mainframe is like letting a fox into a henhouse. :)
  • 650REDHAIR 16 minutes ago
    US banks and creditors desperately need this yesterday.
    • sai18 6 minutes ago
      That’s what we’ve seen with our customers. Some have only one or two COBOL developers left in some teams, and they are often the only people with the operational knowledge needed to keep these systems running.

      They are either past retirement or about to retire in the coming years.

    • ex1fm3ta 9 minutes ago
      and now they moved to microservices chaos and need it more than ever.
  • ASalazarMX 1 hour ago
    What was the training data? While there are open source projects for mainframes, most high-quality and battle-tested COBOL code bases are likely proprietary.

    Also, will it be trained on the code base it sees? Most companies would be opposed to sharing their IP.

    Edit: according to the website, the model won't be trained with your data.

  • happyPersonR 48 minutes ago
    Hopefully Llm while it may not allow immediately for like 100% ready to go financial services code

    Maybe it gives us good tests ?

    That alone for something on cobol might be worthwhile

  • schlauerfox 1 hour ago
    Is this available to install on Hercules emulator for hobbyists? For people unfamiliar with Mainframes, check out the moshix youtube channel.
    • aayn 1 hour ago
      We don't currently support Hercules, but we are providing free access to a mainframe for people to try out.