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by sai18 35 days ago
Throwing bodies has been the primary way to approach mainframe modernization and a majority of them do end up failing (https://softwaremodernizationservices.com/insights/mainframe...).

Now bringing in AI agents that are incredibly good at software engineering into the modernization lifecycle can completely change the landscape. That's the vision we're building towards at Hypercubic.

Previously you might need 50 engineers and 5+ years to modernize a mainframe application, now with Hypercubic, we can compress that down to 1/5th of those estimates.

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Failure at 1/5 the price is still failure.
With agentic systems that are extremely proficient in the mainframe ecosystem, the failure rates for modernization should dramatically go down.

What we're attempting was not possible two years or even a year ago.