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Unlock the Future of Coding Together 🚀 Watch our exclusive webinar on leveraging AI for enhancing pair programming in COBOL development for IBM i and IBM z systems. Discover how AI can revolutionize your coding collaboration and efficiency. "

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The measure of AI adoption isn't how much the machine ran.

It's whether the output was something you could stake a production system on.

New article on why that distinction matters in legacy modernization.

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The Token Trap: Why Measuring AI by Consumption Misses the Point Tokenmaxxing, a relatively new term to describe a "more is better" philosophy applied to coding projects, will feel familiar to anyone who has watched a technology initiative get measured the wrong way. Apparently, many companies are tracking AI adoption by token consumption.

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ICYMI: A clear roadmap changes the planning conversation. Broadcom's April 29 AppDev session gave CA 2E and CA Plex organizations something concrete to work with. Here's our read on what matters most.

Broadcom Opens Up on CA 2E and CA Plex: A Detailed Public Roadmap Through 2029 On April 29, 2026, Broadcom’s Application Essentials product team hosted a live, public Office Hours session covering CA 2E, CA Plex, and CA Harvest SCM. The session was notable for its depth and specificity: Broadcom’s engineers and product managers walked through recent releases, answered tech...

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The WSJ just ran a piece on why AI coding tools struggle with existing enterprise software.

Worth reading.

I'll take the argument one step further, and it lands differently for COBOL and IBM i shops.

The Blind Spot the AI Coding Critics Missed A recent Wall Street Journal piece by Christopher Mims surfaced a warning worth paying attention to. Two engineers who helped build the OpenClaw AI agent, Mario Zechner and Armin Ronacher, are sounding an alarm about what they call "vibe slop": the low-quality, potentially dangerous code that gets p