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Ryan welcomes Markus Eisele to discuss the advantages of Java in AI development.

SPONSORED BY IBM Ryan 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 outshined the accepted answer. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ryan

Guest: Markus Eisele

Topics covered

• Java
• AI
• coding agents
• technology
• software development
• ecosystem

Keywords

• Java
• AI superpower
• coding agent
• IBM
• libraries
• agentic harnesses
• training data

Sponsors

IBM

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Bob

Books & works: ffmpeg

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