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I'm not saying IBM shouldn't try, but really – why is IBM building coding CLIs? They're like the company version of the Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kid
by prodigycorp 9mo ago
I'm not saying IBM shouldn't try, but really – why is IBM building coding CLIs? They're like the company version of the Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme.
- TZubiri 9mo agoIBM has a huge history with AI, Deep Blue, Watson.. Ok, maybe not huge, but they've always been in the game even before most of us wore pants.
- internet_points 9mo agoand the tech behind the original google translate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_alignment_models https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_alignment_models
- wpasc 9mo agoFor once, one might actually get fired for buying/hiring IBM
- ronbenton 9mo agoSomething to do with shareholders I guess?
- _23sd 9mo agoPart of the problem here is all the vendor lock in with the tools. It's a new category so it's to be expected, but currently any company that sells an enterprise cloud platform kind of needs their own AI coding tool suite to be competitive.
- jerlam 9mo agoI would have expected IBM to buy and integrate another AI coding company or license one, instead of trying to build it themselves. IBM doesn't have a good track record of building products. Maybe they didn't have time, or were convinced it was too easy.
- prodigycorp 9mo agoI couldn't think of a better signal to flee a job interview than seeing an IBM LLM cli on someone's screen.
- blauditore 9mo agoI saw an IBM presentation about AI at a conference years ago, during the previous wave of AI hype (2018-ish). IIRC they were advertising some specialized AI chip/hardware. The presentation was kind of meh, but it shows they've been trying to dab in this space for a while.
- cedws 9mo agoEveryone is building one these days. None of them really have any differentiating features other than the LLMs they use, but I guess it's a cheap way to try and block off some market share from your competitors.
- paxys 9mo agoBecause they need something to put in powerpoint decks to help their sales teams sign overpriced consulting contracts. See - IBM Watson.
- hu3 9mo agoThe last company that didn't integrate AI had to fire 75% of their engineering team. AI sells.
- prodigycorp 9mo agoToo soon.
- yencabulator 9mo ago75% sounds like a lot but 3 sounds like nothing.
- rdtsc 9mo agoIt's $50B a year revenue tech company, I guess I would flip the question and ask why wouldn't build it's own coding CLIs?
- prodigycorp 9mo agoBecause it’s becoming obvious that these coding agents are going to succeed on the basis of a company’s ability to not only build the harness, but tune the model for the harness. I guess it’s fine if IBM is trying to do it as a marketing kind of thing but maybe know your competencies?
- rdtsc 9mo agoWith so many LLMs around and tooling around it’s not hard to cobble something together. At their size they can get special pricing and discounts, too, to reduce per seat cost.