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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
