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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