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IBM's AI coding partner Bob reaches general availability with 45% productivity boost

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IBM has officially launched Bob, its AI coding assistant, after a year of internal testing with 80,000 employees. The tool, which integrates with IBM's watsonx Code Assistant for Z, reportedly boosted productivity by an average of 45% for internal users. Bob utilizes a combination of large language models, open-source models, and IBM's own Granite SLM family to assist throughout the software development lifecycle, including security checks. AI

IMPACT Provides enterprise developers with an AI coding partner to augment the full software development lifecycle, potentially improving productivity on complex mainframe applications.

RANK_REASON Product release of an AI coding assistant.

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IBM's AI coding partner Bob reaches general availability with 45% productivity boost

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  1. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Joe Fay ·

    IBM's AI coding 'partner' Bob hits general availability

    <h4>80,000 internal guinea pigs, Bobcoins, mainframe dreams and a name that really should have raised more flags</h4> <p>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 bl…

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