Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Briefs: 🕯️ The IBM i user group a search engine can’t replace. 📉 IBM’s slow quarter isn’t IBM i’s story. AI: 🔍 AI is worst at reviewing its own code. 🔧 The IBM i tool built on the multi-model idea. Career: 🎙️ To explain IBM i, […]
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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: Turnover is the real risk to IBM i, not age
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔑 Inside the Encryption Key Management Changes in IBM i 7.6. 🔓 IBM’s $240M bet on open-source AI inference. AI: 📊 The AI jobs apocalypse never showed up. Career: 🧩 HUMANTODO. 🐝 The AI era is rewriting the developer job description. Development: 🧰 IBM Bob […]
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: 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: 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: 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: 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. […]
