IBM has officially launched Bob, its AI coding assistant, after a year of internal testing with 80,000 employees. The tool, which integrates with IBM's watsonx Code Assistant for Z, reportedly boosted productivity by an average of 45% for internal users. Bob utilizes a combination of large language models, open-source models, and IBM's own Granite SLM family to assist throughout the software development lifecycle, including security checks. AI
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IMPACT Provides enterprise developers with an AI coding partner to augment the full software development lifecycle, potentially improving productivity on complex mainframe applications.
RANK_REASON Product release of an AI coding assistant.