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Re: IBM Bob

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Post by exiguus »

jonwinstanley wrote: post #188
SahAssar wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not a spinoff. It was founded 20 years before and was the largest PC manufacturer in China 10 years before buying IBM's PC business.

Interesting. Did not know that. I thought someone bought the IBM laptop business and renamed it.

It was bought, but after the renaming. Today IBM only build Servers. Mainframes. All other PC, Laptop and Server Production/Branding is sold. IBM rebranded mainly to IBM iX. A full service agency. Hardware is now Mainframes. And other deviations are mostly Cloud, OpenShift, Ansible, and RHEL.

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Post by Bombthecat »

cube00 wrote: post #269

> Bobcoins are the consumption-based billing metric used for Bob subscriptions. They provide a transparent, predictable way to measure and bill for your Bob usage. Each action you take in Bob—such as generating code, reading files, or running commands—consumes a certain number of Bobcoins based on the computational resources required. transparent, predictable ... "a certain number of Bobcoins" ... so not that transpa…

Nope, not predictable at all.

Because they auto route still your requests, you never know if something costs one coin or a tenth of a coin

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by petepete »

absoluteunit1 wrote: post #66

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

> M.R. Williams is advancing its IBM i modernization strategy with new mobile solutions and accounting system improvements, while leveraging IBM Bob to quickly interpret older RPG code, automate documentation, and streamline development workflows.

This is exactly the kind of endorsement I’d expect to see from an IBM customer.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by purpleidea »

Nobody wants a proprietary TUI. We still use claude because the model pricing is way better, but that will eventually change. Bob has a hard lesson ahead of it.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by mhaberl »

This is so ridiculous that I love it

I seriously think I’m going to use it just for the lolz

Bobcoins! Are they blue? hahaha

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by jamiek88 »

basisword wrote: post #90
podgietaru wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As with most things on the UK, probably. I definitely used Bobbins. I used to think everyone called (cobs|bread cakes|rolls|barns) muffins, and it turns out it was just my small town that did it. As in, just my small town, not region, county, etc.

>> I used to think everyone called (cobs|bread cakes|rolls|barns) muffins UK regional dialects are summed up really well here because despite listing five different names for a specific thing you still neglected the word I use (baps).

And mine! (batch)

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by wejick »

VScode is so much similar with Eclipse IDE back around 2010s. 7 out of 10 IDE was based on it, and their look and feel awere kinda similar.

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Post by Alien1Being »

dgacmu wrote: post #209

I laughed when I saw this; my 14yo looked over to see why I was laughing and asked "what's IBM?" indeed, child, indeed.

Same thing is happening to Microsoft and Google.

A slow, long slide through mediocrity into irrelevance...

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Post by roryirvine »

cgio wrote: post #293
beachy wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We did a deal with IBM back in the day to adapt our tech as the code generation for enterprise java beans. The commercial guy I dealt with made it very clear that a primary concern was IBM not being humiliated and shafted like their MS dealings. It colored our commercial arrangements, which had to include "break glass" arrangements for them to gain full access to our source code.

How to not learn from your mistakes and actually make them worse. I wonder how many valuable alliances they lost just because of that fear. Whoever was willing to sign was already probably not going to be a threat.

To be fair, source code escrow was for a long time a standard feature of contracts between small/medium software companies and large enterprises.

It's actually one of the reasons that open source took off in the early 2000s - if the source was already available all you needed to do was come up with a legal agreement that says something to the effect of "EnterpriseCo has a limited license to use SmallCo's software which reverts to full rights in the event that SmallCo is unable to carry out its obligations", with no need to bother arranging (and paying for) escrow.

That made it easier and cheaper to deal with open source companies, and made escrow seem weird and expensive by comparison. But in the 90s it was almost universal in those sort of contracts.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by bitlad »

brzz wrote: post #187
woah wrote: post #174

Nobody ever got fired for IBM Bob setting up a secret message board and establishing a persistent foothold in an internal inference cluster

Nobody has yet been fired for IBM Bob setting up a secret message board and establishing a persistent foothold in an internal inference cluster

People IBM get fired for setting up IBM stuff [1]

[1] https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/many-employees-ibm-2026-la...

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