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Why Most IBM i Staff Augmentation Doesn’t Shrink Your Backlog (opens in a new tab)

Two colleagues review a desktop workstation in an office.

Search “IBM i staff augmentation” and every provider claims the same thing: real experience, fast ramp-up, lower cost. Almost none of them can show you what that means on day…

Why The Right AI Model For Your RPG Codebase Isn’t Always The Same One (opens in a new tab)

Different AI models have different strengths on different IBM i tasks. Here is why locking into one model, one vendor, and one roadmap is a bigger bet than it looks like at first, and how to avoid making it by accident.

Most AI coding tools ask you to trust one model with everything. For decades of RPG and COBOL logic, that trade-off deserves more scrutiny than it usually gets.…