Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 👋 Looking to Reach Steve Will? 🎯 IBM just told you where it is going. AI: 🔓 The gated-API era of powerful AI is over. Career: 🔄 RPG alone no longer carries a career. Development: ⚙️ RPG adds built-in assertions for defensive programming. ERP: 🏢 […]
Talsco Weekly: The AI Decision Tree Just Got Messier
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 📉 IBM’s worst day since 1968 wasn’t random. 📦 IBM Champions are already unboxing the Power11. AI: 🌳 The AI decision tree is getting messier. 💻 Bob 2.0 arrives with an IBM i-specific upgrade. Career: 🔔 The AI job panic letter doesn’t hold up. 📈 […]
Talsco Weekly: The Bob Effect
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 📚 Former IBMer’s New Book Puts The Midrange In The Spotlight. 📉 IBM Stock Slides 2% Despite Major AI-Powered Bob Platform Upgrade. AI: ⚙️ IBM Extends Bob AI Platform With Array of New Features. 🔧 Tokenmaxxing is over. Tokenminimizing misses the point too. Career: 💡 […]
Talsco Weekly: One End Goal. Two Starting Points.
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: ☁️ Lightedge is now selling IBM PowerVS to its IBM i customer base. 🤝 IBM teams up with Google Cloud on AI. AI: 🛠️ Same playbook, different language. Career: 👤 The manager is not trying to trick you. They are trying to solve a problem. […]
Talsco Weekly: The IBM i: Still Ahead of Everything
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 👋 Steve Will is retiring from IBM. 🏛️ IBM i’s Chief Architect calls it a career. 🌏 IBM Bob just showed up in Bangkok. AI: 🔧 IBM Bob just got a serious upgrade for IBM i. 💡 AI is now writing most of its own […]
🏗️ IBM i Was Built for This Moment
Discover why IBM i was built for this moment in this Week’s Talsco Weekly
Talsco Weekly: The RPG Developer’s AI Moment
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔋 IBM’s new Power GM is all-in on IBM i and AI. 🌥️ The pilot-to-production gap has a name. IBM just built a bridge. AI: 🖥️ IBM Bob offers a hands-on AI IDE start. 🏗️ What IBM said no to, the community is building anyway. […]
Talsco Weekly: 🏗️ Your IBM i AI Roadmap: Build or Buy?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔗 IBM just gave AI agents a direct line to IBM i. 👥 COMMON named its new board. 🎯 IBM Think 2026 had one message: focus. AI: 🔵 IBM i is built for the AI era. 🔧 Build or Buy? The IBM i AI Question […]
Talsco Weekly: 🎙️ One IBM i Developer’s Take on AI
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 📊 IBM’s Power Systems business is growing — but GenAI revenue hasn’t arrived yet. 🟢 IBM i doesn’t need the spotlight. It just works. AI: 💡 Speed isn’t the goal. Better thinking is. 🏗️ Too many vendors may be the reason your AI strategy is […]
Talsco Weekly: 🧭 IBM i: Where Do We Go From Here?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🏙️ AI is taking over POWERUp 2026 in New Orleans. 📈 Power Systems hardware is getting more expensive — fast. 📊 IBM’s infrastructure business just posted a standout quarter. AI: 🔒 Your AI coding assistant. Your machine. Your data. 🧮 AI didn’t start with ChatGPT. […]
