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Re:Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes by mkoubaa on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:22PM (#45878211)
I'm excited for you but nervous about the kinds of bugs that might get caused
Re:Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes by sai18 on Monday November 10, 2025 @12:49PM (#45878562)
Given how far back these systems go, the real challenge isn’t just the code or the lack of documentation, but the tribal knowledge baked into them. A lot of the critical logic lives in conventions, naming patterns, and unwritten rules that only long-time SMEs understand.

Using AI and a few different modalities of information that exist about these systems (existing code, docs, AI-driven interviews, and workflow capture), we can triangulate and extract that tribal knowledge out.