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Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
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#12Built by leading minds behind the world's most advanced AI and technology - Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions [...]
https://www.hypercubic.ai/company
Please consider adding more background of the executive and heads of department on the about page to help us understand who these top researchers, engineers, and strategists are.
There are currently no names on the about page, not even the co-founders, however this claim that "our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions" appears on multiple pages on the website.
It seems:
* Sai was an Apple machine learning engineer for 19 months, then a Apple lead machine learning engineer for 17 months.
* Aayush was an Apple software engineer for 3 years, then an Apple senior software engineer for 8 months at Apple.
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#13If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So letting an LLM loose on a mainframe is like letting a fox into a henhouse. :)
The problem here is that people who understand these systems are all retiring. Majority of the devs are over 60 and there's simply not enough new talent coming in to replace them.
So the real challenge companies are facing is will there be enough people to safely maintain these systems in the next decade. If they do not, it means failures in credit card systems, airline reservations, insurance claims and more.
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#14If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So letting an LLM loose on a mainframe is like letting a fox into a henhouse. :)
The problem here is that people who understand these systems are all retiring. Majority of the devs are over 60 and there's simply not enough new talent coming in to replace them. So the real challenge companies are facing is will there be enough people to safely maintain these systems in the next decade. If they do not, it means failures in credit card systems, airline reservations, insurance claims and more.
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#15If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So letting an LLM loose on a mainframe is like letting a fox into a henhouse. :)
The problem here is that people who understand these systems are all retiring. Majority of the devs are over 60 and there's simply not enough new talent coming in to replace them. So the real challenge companies are facing is will there be enough people to safely maintain these systems in the next decade. If they do not, it means failures in credit card systems, airline reservations, insurance claims and more.
Correct, they are retiring, for sure.
The last thing I’d ever put into mission-critical systems is an LLM.
So let’s hope it’s a mainframe sandbox so future COBOL programmers can learn on it. :)
In any case, COBOL systems work precisely because no one is constantly tinkering with them to “add a new framework”.
The last time I saw, someone made a “Hello World” app in Electron, and it was 220 MB.
Howgh.
Re: Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL
#16If it ain't broke, don't fix it. So letting an LLM loose on a mainframe is like letting a fox into a henhouse. :)
The problem here is that people who understand these systems are all retiring. Majority of the devs are over 60 and there's simply not enough new talent coming in to replace them. So the real challenge companies are facing is will there be enough people to safely maintain these systems in the next decade. If they do not, it means failures in credit card systems, airline reservations, insurance claims and more.
It sounds like they will still need to hire and train human talent who can understand the code, and evaluate and integrate outputs of AI systems that conform to the specific compliance and data retention requirements of these industries. And also people who can enforce said compliance, and a lot of other things. Sounds like a complex problem without a neat off-the-shelf solution
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#17Built by leading minds behind the world's most advanced AI and technology - Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions [...] https://www.hypercubic.ai/company Please consider adding more background of the executive and heads of department on the about page to help us understand who these top researchers, engineers, and strategists are. There are currently no…
Hi! I agree we should have a profile page on website.
Btw, this is Aayush and I was at Apple for almost four years and Sai was there for three. And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has almost a decade of experience and has worked at Cognition and Windsurf.
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#18Built by leading minds behind the world's most advanced AI and technology - Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions [...] https://www.hypercubic.ai/company Please consider adding more background of the executive and heads of department on the about page to help us understand who these top researchers, engineers, and strategists are. There are currently no…
Hi! I agree we should have a profile page on website. Btw, this is Aayush and I was at Apple for almost four years and Sai was there for three. And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has almost a decade of experience and has worked at Cognition and Windsurf.
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#19Built by leading minds behind the world's most advanced AI and technology - Our team unites top researchers, engineers, and strategists from pioneering companies and institutions [...] https://www.hypercubic.ai/company Please consider adding more background of the executive and heads of department on the about page to help us understand who these top researchers, engineers, and strategists are. There are currently no…
Hi! I agree we should have a profile page on website. Btw, this is Aayush and I was at Apple for almost four years and Sai was there for three. And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has almost a decade of experience and has worked at Cognition and Windsurf.
> And we have Kevin as our founding engineer who has [...] worked at Cognition and Windsurf.
Kevin was at Cognition as a software engineer for 9 months and Windsurf as a design engineer for 7 months.
Including company logos on the Hypercubic website because team members worked there for less then a year doesn't convey the endorsement of these companies I'd expect when I see their logo being used.
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