CoderFlow on IBM i: What Real Development Tasks Actually Look Like
Descriptions of agentic coding are easy to find. What is harder to find is a straight answer to a simple question: what does it actually look like when you hand a task to an agent in a real IBM i environment? This post walks through three examples.
AI Digital Labor on IBM i: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount
The question IT leaders are asking is no longer whether AI can write code. It’s whether AI can take on the sustained delivery work that enterprise teams need done without expanding payroll. On IBM i, the answer is already being demonstrated in production.
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.
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 […]
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 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.
Build and Consume APIs Simply by Using the Right Language
Since the beginning, RPG has been the language of choice on IBM’s midrange computing systems (IBM i, AS/400, etc.). Developers have learned to do everything within the comfort of the RPG language. However, as technology has advanced, IBM i developers have struggled keeping up with new technologies within a language that was not built for […]
Business Apps on IBM i RPG Code Paved the Way
For the IBM i (AS400, iSeries) market, that focus primarily turns to RPG as a coding language for business applications.