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Java’s age is its AI superpower

IBM's coding agent Bob is designed to write Java, leveraging the language's 30-year history as a stable foundation and a rich source of training data for AI, according to Markus Eisele on the Stack Overflow podcast. Eisele highlighted that agentic Java excels by integrating with a massive ecosystem of Java libraries and agentic harnesses.

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Java’s age is its AI superpower
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Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java. They talk about why the long history of Java both makes for a stable language and a source of training data for AI. On top of that, they discuss how agentic Java excels by working with powerful partners: a massive ecosystem of Java libraries and agentic harnesses.

Try out Bob, IBM’s coding agent that Markus talked about in the episode. Connect with Markus on

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