# Java’s age is its AI superpower

> Source: <https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/09/09/java-s-age-is-its-ai-superpower/>
> Published: 2026-09-09 04:45:00+00:00

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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](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.

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