Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

Re:Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL by 650REDHAIR on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:00PM (#48112797)

US banks and creditors desperately need this yesterday.

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Re:Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL by sai18 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:10PM (#48112934)

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.

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Re:Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL by ryandrake on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:54AM (#48117996)

Oh, great. Nobody left who knows the language + vibe coding + banking and financial transactions. What could possibly go wrong...? Good luck!

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Re:Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL by ex1fm3ta on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:07PM (#48112890)

and now they moved to microservices chaos and need it more than ever.

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