Beyond the Green Screen: What Profound AppDev Makes Possible for RPG Teams
Most IBM i teams know their RPG code is worth keeping. What’s harder to see is what becomes possible when you build on top of it rather than around it. Profound AppDev gives RPG development teams the tools to create modern, browser-based applications without abandoning the business logic they’ve spent decades refining.
What a Junior Developer Learns in Six Months, CoderFlow Teaches Itself in Six Minutes
Hiring a junior developer to work in an IBM i environment doesn’t solve the knowledge problem. It transfers it. CoderFlow takes a different approach, and the implications for teams facing the talent cliff are significant.
What Happens to Your Day When AI Does the Build-Test-Fix Loop
Most conversations about AI and developer productivity focus on speed. Fewer ask the more important question: speed at what, exactly? When AI autonomously executes the build-test-fix loop, the daily rhythm of development work changes in ways that go beyond doing the same things faster. Here’s what that shift actually looks like.
The Staffing Cliff Is Real: What IBM i Organizations Should Be Planning Right Now
Every IBM i organization knows the headcount is shrinking. The average RPG developer is in their mid-to-late fifties. Retirements are accelerating. Hiring to backfill is difficult in the best of circumstances, and the pipeline of developers entering the field with IBM i expertise slow growing. Most technology leaders are aware of this. What many haven’t fully reckoned with is what leaves when a veteran IBM i developer […]
Profound Logic Adds IBM Bob to CoderFlow’s Agentic Coding Platform, Enabling Autonomous IBM i Execution Beyond What Bob Can Do Alone
CoderFlow gives IBM Bob deep IBM i integration, autonomous build-test-fix loops, and parallel orchestration. Profound Logic, the leader in IBM i futurization, today announced that CoderFlow now supports IBM Bob as a participating agent in its autonomous execution platform. CoderFlow is an enterprise agentic coding platform that gives organizations the governance, security, and infrastructure control required to deploy AI-driven development at scale. It runs autonomous agents that […]
The Skills System: How CoderFlow Learns Your Environment
One of the most common reasons AI coding tools underdeliver in IBM i environments has nothing to do with the AI itself. It’s that the agent doesn’t know how anything in your environment actually works. CoderFlow’s Skills system solves that problem at the architecture level.
Why Modernization Isn’t Enough & What Futurization Actually Means for IBM i
Most IBM i organizations have tried modernization and found it falls short. Surface-level upgrades don’t resolve technical debt, close the talent gap, or prepare your platform for AI. Discover why futurization is a fundamentally different approach and what it takes to turn IBM i into a strategic growth engine.
Why Your DevOps Toolchain Is the Real Barrier to Agentic Coding on IBM i
Every IBM i organization exploring agentic coding is asking the wrong first question. Before selecting an AI model or platform, you need to assess whether your software delivery toolchain can support autonomous agents. Discover the three non-negotiable DevOps prerequisites and why CoderFlow is built to meet IBM i environments where they actually are.
Orchestrated Execution for Enterprise Development with CoderFlow: Part 3
Organizations evaluating CoderFlow often initially compare it to copilot tools. This comparison misunderstands what orchestrated execution delivers and why the value model differs fundamentally. Copilots help individual developers write code faster within their IDE, but developers still plan work, run commands, compile, test, iterate, judge correctness, and deploy. CoderFlow replaces that entire loop with parallel, orchestrated execution.
Orchestrated Execution for Enterprise Development with CoderFlow: Part 2
Orchestrated execution raises immediate questions for enterprise IT leaders. How do agents access internal systems securely? What data leaves your environment? How do you extend agent capabilities without increasing risk? And critically, how does this work with the unique complexity of IBM i systems? CoderFlow addresses these concerns through an architecture designed for enterprise security requirements from day one.
Orchestrated Execution for Enterprise Development with CoderFlow: Part 1
Enterprise development teams face a fundamental challenge with current AI productivity tools. Copilots help individual developers write code faster, but productivity remains serial and human-bound. CoderFlow takes a different approach, orchestrating complete engineering workflows where multiple AI agents work in parallel, compilating, testing, validation, and refinement cycles.
When Your IBM i Expertise Walks Out the Door: Strategic Scenarios for Staff Augmentation
When expertise walks out the door or aggressive timelines demand impossible capacity, organizations face a choice. Strategic staff augmentation provides the flexible, specialized talent needed to maintain operations while pursuing transformation initiatives.
The Agentic Coding Paradox: Why Enterprise IT Leaders Are Asking the Wrong Question
Every CIO lately asks the same question: “Should we adopt agentic coding?” It’s the wrong question. The right question is: “How do we capture productivity gains without dismantling the systems our business depends on?” Because here’s the uncomfortable truth, the productivity promises you keep hearing about agentic AI aren’t exaggerations. They’re real. But they’re also almost entirely inaccessible to enterprises running mission-critical legacy applications. And that gap between […]
CoderFlow Changes How Software Gets Built. Let’s Talk About the Human Side
Profound Coder delivers 5-10x productivity gains through autonomous AI agents that execute complete engineering cycles. But technology alone isn’t enough. Discover the organizational transformation that unlocks this potential for IBM i teams managing legacy applications.
Automated Testing Is What Makes IBM i Futurization Safe at Scale
Transformation testing isn’t the same as new-build testing. IBM i futurization demands fidelity — proving futurized applications behave exactly like legacy systems before deployment. This blog explains how automated recording, replay, and equivalence validation create the guardrails that make incremental futurization safe at scale.