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IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability
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IBM has announced global availability of Bob, the AI coding assistant - sorry partner - which it claims has delivered a productivity boost to the 80,000 big bluers pressed into guinea pig status last year.
Key facts
- Otherwise current prices range from a $20 per month for the Pro tier with 40 Bobcoins, to Ultra at $200, with 500 Bobcoins
- Bob was put to work on Big Blue's own RevTech platform, delivering
- they're told
- measurable gains" including "10x project-based ROI", 300k payloads automated in testing scenarios, and "monitoring
- The GA status coincides with the launch of an IBM Bob Premium Package for Z, "which integrates and enhances the capabilities of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z to deliver advanced features
- IBM said it's teams that used Bob saw an "average of 45 percent productivity gains across complex, multi-step workflows
Summary
The GA status coincides with the launch of an IBM Bob Premium Package for Z, "which integrates and enhances the capabilities of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z to deliver advanced features for enterprise-scale mainframe applications. IBM said it's teams that used Bob saw an "average of 45 percent productivity gains across complex, multi-step workflows. This makes IBM the latest company to lean on its own staff to "prove" the efficacy of it AI platforms. As for IBM, the firm says Bob uses a mix of frontier LLMs, open-source models, small language models (SLMs) and IBM’s Granite SLM family to automate and augment the full software development lifecycle, from discovery and planning to design, coding, and testing.