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Re:Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL by cube00 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:02PM (#48113670)
We've been hearing this claim for well over a decade and it hasn't happened, these companies are surviving somehow.

I suspect with developers learning on the job as best they can with some limited hand over from the retiring developers.

Say a system was built in 1975 by a 25 year old developer, they'd be 76 today, not 60.

There isn't any tsunami of COBOL work coming, it would have arrived over a decade ago if there was.

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