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Re:Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes by mkoubaa on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:15PM (#45880379)
Good money elsewhere for people capable of (a) learning COBOL (b) being effective in a legacy codebase and (c) operating in a large organization in a political savvy way.
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Re:Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes by sai18 on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:45PM (#45880712)
I’d also note that COBOL is only one layer of the stack.

The real complexity lies in also understanding z/OS (mainframe operating systems), CICS, JCL, and the rest of the mainframe runtime, it’s an entirely parallel computing universe compared to the x86 space.

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