Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Briefs: 🐝 The biggest objection to AI on IBM i just went away. AI: 🛠️ McKinsey says build is back. IBM i never left. 🐝 Hours to seconds: one IBM i shop’s first 90 days with Bob. Career: 🗣️ The newest language for IBM i developers […]
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Talsco Weekly: AI runs through every lane for RPG developers
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 💰 The pricing model under your ERP is quietly changing. 🧩 IBM’s 60-year merger attempt might finally stick. AI: 🖥️ The $600 box quietly running a private AI. Career: 🧰 Every RPG developer has a lane. AI runs through all of them. Development: 🧪 Validate […]
Talsco Weekly: IBM i was built on memory bandwidth
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🤝 IBM goes all in on OpenAI for the enterprise. AI: ⚔️ The open vs. closed AI war is an old story. Development: 🧰 A toolbox for IBM i developers who tinker. Hiring: 📈 Heavy AI Spenders Are Hiring, Not Cutting. ⚖️ Companies can hold […]
Talsco Weekly: Stop Modernizing. Start Lowering the Cost of Change.
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🪜 One Retirement, A Whole New Bench. 📈 IBM Stumbled. Power Had Its Best Quarter in Years.. AI: 🧱 AI with IBM i. 🐝 BeeAI. 🔄 Why Multi-Model AI Is the Future of Enterprise Architecture. Career: 🎮 Steve Will’s retirement schedule, revealed. Development: 🚀 vscode-rpgle […]
Talsco Weekly: RPG alone no longer carries a career
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: IBM i: Keep It In the Building
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🎟️ COMMON is bringing IBM i to a bigger stage. 📉 Deferred is not the same as dead. AI: 🪨 Granite is the AI model you can run yourself. Development: ⚙️ The AI workload does not have to leave the building. Hiring: 🧩 Hiring IBM […]
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: What happens when the last IBM i engineer retires?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🏆 As AI scales, governance becomes the new battleground. IBM just won round one. AI: 🛡️ One answer. Two words: protect your data. 🦾 AI is going physical, not just digital. 🪙 Your AI budget runs on a unit nobody can actually define. Career: 🔄 […]
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: 🧭 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. […]
