Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Briefs: 💰 What a P05 IBM i box costs now. ⚛️ IBM’s quantum foundry lands $1 billion. AI: 🗝️ Give your AI agents an authority map. Career: 🔮 What does an IBM i developer do in 2028? 🗂️ Four boxes for a developer’s day. Database: 🐝 […]
Talsco Weekly: The IBM i skill that has nothing to do with code
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, […]
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: 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. […]
Talsco Weekly: The IBM i: Still Ahead of Everything
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 👋 Steve Will is retiring from IBM. 🏛️ IBM i’s Chief Architect calls it a career. 🌏 IBM Bob just showed up in Bangkok. AI: 🔧 IBM Bob just got a serious upgrade for IBM i. 💡 AI is now writing most of its own […]
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. […]









