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SPONSORED BY IBMRyan welcomes Markus Eisele to the program to talk about why your coding agent should be writing Java. They talk about why the long history of Java both makes for a stable language and a source of training data for AI. On top of that, they discuss how agentic Java excels by working with powerful partners: a massive ecosystem of Java libraries and agentic harnesses. Try out Bob, IBM’s coding agent that Markus talked about in the episode. Connect with Markus on Congrats to Populist badge winner, Alex K, whose answer to ffmpeg usage to encode a video to H264 codec format…
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