{"slug": "javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower", "title": "Java’s age is its AI superpower", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "## \n\nRyan 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.\n\n[Try out Bob](https://bob.ibm.com/trial?utm_content=PVLWW&p1=Newsletter&p2=%epid!&p3=%ecid!), IBM’s coding agent that Markus talked about in the episode.\n\nConnect with Markus on\n\nCongrats to Populist badge winner, [Alex K](https://stackoverflow.com/users/266561/alex-k), whose answer to [ffmpeg usage to encode a video to H264 codec format](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5678695/ffmpeg-usage-to-encode-a-video-to-h264-codec-format/9723114#9723114) outshined the accepted answer.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower", "canonical_source": "https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/09/java-s-age-is-its-ai-superpower/", "published_at": "2026-09-09 04:45:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 05:18:58.052577+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["IBM", "Markus Eisele", "Bob", "Java", "Stack Overflow"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/javas-age-is-its-ai-superpower.jsonld"}}