The Metrics That Matter After Year One (opens in a new tab)
Twelve months into an IBM i transformation, someone will ask whether it is working. Counting converted programs will not answer that question. Here are the measures that will, and how…
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Building A Modern IBM i Screen With Agentic Display Files (opens in a new tab)
Agentic Display Files remove the widget ceiling on IBM i screen development, but the announcement left the mechanics abstract. Here is what actually happens when a developer builds a real…
Why Most IBM i Staff Augmentation Doesn’t Shrink Your Backlog (opens in a new tab)
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)
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.…
CoderFlow On IBM i: What Real Development Tasks Actually Look Like (opens in a new tab)
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…
AI Digital Labor On IBM i: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount (opens in a new tab)
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…
Beyond The Green Screen: What Profound AppDev Makes Possible For RPG Teams (opens in a new tab)
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.…
What A Junior Developer Learns In Six Months, CoderFlow Teaches Itself In Six Minutes (opens in a new tab)
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 Staffing Cliff Is Real: What IBM i Organizations Should Be Planning Right Now (opens in a new tab)
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…
The Skills System: How CoderFlow Learns Your Environment (opens in a new tab)
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…
Why Your DevOps Toolchain Is The Real Barrier To Agentic Coding On IBM i (opens in a new tab)
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…
Build And Consume APIs Simply By Using The Right Language (opens in a new tab)
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…
Business Apps On IBM i RPG Code Paved The Way (opens in a new tab)
For the IBM i (AS400, iSeries) market, that focus primarily turns to RPG as a coding language for business applications.…