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Re: IBM Bob

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Post by valleyer »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #151
Stevvo wrote: post #18

Interesting they are renting out agent skills. You can pick up "Java Modernization" at $20 a month for "Specialist workflows to help with modernizing Java applications", or "IBM i" for "Specialist modes, workflows, and skills to work with IBM i applications".

What do you mean by renting out an agent skill? How can one even rent a Skill? It’s just a markdown file

It could be added to context only on the inference server, with the model heavily instructed not to repeat its contents. Not foolproof, obviously.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by karim79 »

Is anyone out there paying for this? I know you are there. Come out explain yourself. And also explain the value of a Bobcoin, and if can be scalped and resold on eBay.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by CamperBob2 »

flo123456 wrote: post #153
kingleopold wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yet hp exist after decades, just a terrible printer corp going long term is insane really

HP was never just a printer corp. ;-)

HP is long gone. What's left is just a printer and PC company that didn't bother to change the sign on the building.

It's as if I bought an old telephone exchange building and called it Bell Labs.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by steve-atx-7600 »

crash-universe wrote: post #160

Someone must have thought about this. PMs, Directors, lots of people involved in putting this together. I wonder what their target customer is. They must have analyzed and projected this. I'm genuinely interested.

There is so much business software out there and ecosystems that have evolved around it. Systems still running cobol on IBM mainframes; or, more "modern" stacks like Java apps running in IBM websphere. There are relatively small numbers of HN reading folk that went to some of the best CS programs and/or work(ed) at FANG caliber companies (whatever you call them now). The rest of the software engineer types are a diverse crowd and turning to IBM Bob might be more natural than some creepy looking orange starfish offering. That's my hypothesis anyway.

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by bigmattystyles »

maxbobby wrote: post #164

No one at IBM remembers Microsoft Bob (one of the earliest, if not the earliest virtual assistants) from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?

Re: IBM Bob

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Post by gowld »

bigmattystyles wrote: post #168
maxbobby wrote: post #164

No one at IBM remembers Microsoft Bob (one of the earliest, if not the earliest virtual assistants) from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob

I'm convinced they do and they're trolling us.How many 100s of 1000s in consulting do you think it took to come up with Bob?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_the_Builder very common to copy.
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