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Re: IBM Bob

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Post by natsucks »

abtinf wrote: post #59
Ciantic wrote: post #16

This sounds a lot like Spotify's XIRP. They managed to vibe something useful for their own engineers, were super hyped, and decided to release it in public. However what are the odds this harness will stand the test of time against actual harness makers like OpenAI or Anthropic? Neither Spotify or IBM are focused on making models or harnesses, these are just side-products.

> actual harness makers I agree IBM Bob is not the revolution, but… We are still in the punch card era of LLMs. Maybe even the Altair era. None of this stuff has really been figured out yet.

Yes my first instinct is to roll my eyes at these efforts but we'll probably all get something better in the end from all the competition.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by vablings »

antonvs wrote: post #10

Should have been IBM Tom, after legendary IBM CEO Thomas J. Watson. But perhaps they didn't want to sully his name.

IBM already have IBM Watson which is probably named after the CEO

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by mvk666 »

I was at an IBM Bob party, behind the scenes it's basically other frontier models with an IBM-specific context.

Re: IBM Bob

#64

Post by exakoustos »

The "What developers say" carousel has a single Java dev and dev advocate. They got lots of quotes from managers, directors, CEOs, and an "AI strategist".

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by PaulRobinson »

You should never name a tech product Bob in the UK, because the moment it isn't perfect, it'll just get called "Bobbins" [0], especially where I'm from.

I wish IBM got better at product again, and took themselves off the services and consulting morphine they've been on for ~35 years now since OS/2 Warp flopped. Their 1980s/1990s hardware was great. Their software actually was great until Win95 took their lunch money. They've just slunk off into a corner hugging their old architectures they have a moat around, and thrown out some audacious nonsense like Watson now and again, but nothing has stuck. When is somebody in that organisation going to try and innovate properly again?

I'm not sure this is the answer I'd be rooting for.

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bobbins

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by absoluteunit1 »

The landing/marketing page for this looks like something someone promoted/vibe coded including the Bob mascot.

Looks awful from a design perspective. Had to double check that this was the actual IBM domain

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by PaulRobinson »

exakoustos wrote: post #64

The "What developers say" carousel has a single Java dev and dev advocate. They got lots of quotes from managers, directors, CEOs, and an "AI strategist".

It's IBM. They leveraged synergies with the thought leaders they could reach out and touch base with.
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