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Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

May 12, 2026
Hypercubic launched Hopper, an agentic development environment targeting mainframe and COBOL systems that underpin banking, payments, airlines, and government infrastructure. This addresses a critical modernization gap where decades-old systems process enormous transaction volumes but lack modern tooling. Teams maintaining legacy COBOL codebases are the primary audience.