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: 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 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. […]
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 […]
