News Summary

• IBM Bob is an AI-first development partner designed to transform the entire software lifecycle.
• Williams leveraged BOB to modernise Java codebase from Java 11 to Java 25 and achieved an estimated ~90% faster delivery.
• Bob demonstrated a level of intelligence and contextual understanding that goes beyond anything I've seen in other tools.
• It delivers the kind of work you'd expect from an experienced developer who actually thinks about the full picture.
• Bob has built-in guardrails.
• It operates in different modes, allowing you to approve its suggestions before any changes are made to your source code.
• If you ask it about a non-existent RPG op-code, it won't "hallucinate" an answer; it will simply state that it doesn't understand.