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 […]
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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. […]
Talsco Weekly: 🔄 The Question IBM i Shops Stopped Asking
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🗓️ The Spring TR is late. 🌐 The reputation of the IBM i. AI: ⚙️ AI’s real bottleneck. Career: 🔒What does Direct Table Access and your Career have in COMMON? Development: 🛠️ Stop using commands like this. Hiring: 🤝 AI is changing hiring for everyone […]
Talsco Weekly: 🟧 Your RPG skills just got a multiplier
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔧 Legacy transformation is still hard to simplify. AI: 🛠️ The tooling race has arrived on IBM i. Career: 🟧 Your RPG skills just got a multiplier. Development: 💻Every IBM i shop has access to the same code. ERP: 📡 ERPs rolling out new AI […]
Talsco Weekly: 🎯 The Right Leader Changes Everything on IBM i
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Briefs: 🔗 IBM + Arm Strategic Collaboration. 🌐 Medhost’s early IBM Bob test impressed. 🧰 IBM i adds clearer override visibility. AI: 💸 AI inference costs have collapsed 320x — and IBM i shops are positioned to win. 🗄️ IBM i already has what AI needs […]
