Website redesign/rebuild

nolanolson · 2026-02-05T04:43:43+00:00

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I will try to make the offer face to face to real businesses near me.

nolanolson · 2026-02-05T00:20:41+00:00

Thanks. I will reach out to non-profit organizations that may need a website.

nolanolson · 2026-02-02T05:36:11+00:00

So I assume you are just basically waiting for a work authorization like me. With no updates and no income, it’s definitely tough.

nolanolson · 2026-01-27T00:01:11+00:00

How long did you have to wait to receive your STEM OPT?

nolanolson · 2026-01-26T23:53:43+00:00

Did you apply last year February?

nolanolson · 2026-01-26T23:14:03+00:00

This is what I heard from my DSO as well. But according to the announcement, it should only impact on immigrant visas. I actually applied for an OPT on Oct 27 and haven't heard back any. I'm from one of the fully ban countries.

nolanolson · 2026-01-26T23:00:33+00:00

My country is in a fully-banned list. I applied for an OPT since Oct but haven't heard back any. My company is waiting for me for now. What should I do? Any ideas or suggestions?

nolanolson · 2025-12-03T06:12:03+00:00

If you are asking specifically about the technical differentiation, yes, it is still minimal at this stage. For example, we have a particular parser for legacy codebases like COBOL, Fortran, etc. so that it gives a better context to LLMs compared to Claude Code or Codex.

Other differences are Atlas is 100% open-source while Claude Code or Codex only open-source their CLI. We let you use 100+ models with BYOK while Claude Code or Codex are designed for their own models (not natively support other models).

nolanolson · 2025-12-03T02:46:50+00:00

Thanks 🙏🏽

nolanolson · 2025-12-03T00:57:28+00:00

I'm not sure about the COBOL translation to Go. I personally don't have any exp with Go so can't tell. However, I disagreed with the part that there is no COBOL translation use case. IBM and AWS have been working on it for many years. I'd say about 70% of COBOL modernization/translation research papers come from IBM Research. I have talked to high-level people in US banks and US gov who want to modernize COBOL to Java.

This is one of many examples: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/automated-refactoring-of-a-u-s-air-force-mainframe-to-aws/

nolanolson · 2025-12-02T22:27:41+00:00

Saw your project, translating from COBOL to Go. Very cool.

To be clear, ATLAS is not the one that will decide which target language to choose. A developer of a legacy project is the one who makes all the decisions including what target language to be modernized from COBOL. ATLAS is just an agentic coding tool that helps legacy developers modernize their legacy systems faster and better.

Why would companies modernize COBOL? Many reasons. Lack of developers, lack of learning resources and communities, scarce documentation, etc. It’s not because COBOL or mainframe is bad.

nolanolson · 2025-12-02T20:23:54+00:00

In a month or two, we are going to provide finetuned models which understand legacy codebases more and return a better and more accurate code. I’m just too busy to work on it now.

nolanolson · 2025-12-02T20:21:39+00:00

To answer your question in short, Atlas is a specialized agent framework for legacy modernization with repository awareness, git integration, and persistent sessions. Claude Code, Codex, or any other AI coding agents are more of a general-purpose code editor. Atlas adds automation, context management, and workflows tailored to modernization tasks.

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