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BOB, Agentic AI & What’s Next for IBM i | Live with Steve Will at POWERUp

May 25, 2026 • Stepan • Season 9 • Episode 4

0:00 | 28:10

Recorded live at POWERUp, Peg sits down with Steve Will from IBM to talk about one of the hottest topics in tech right now: Agentic AI.

But before jumping into agents, the conversation starts with a major update on BOB — IBM’s AI-powered software development assistant — and what early customers are already doing with it.

Together, Peg and Steve unpack what this next generation of AI could mean for IBM i teams.

You’ll hear:
✨ What BOB does today and what’s coming next
✨ How AI can help teams understand and modernize older RPG applications
✨ Why documentation and application discovery may become dramatically easier
✨ What Agentic AI actually is (without the buzzwords)
✨ MCP and how AI begins connecting questions to real systems
✨ Why AI should augment experts—not replace them
✨ Practical ideas for getting started today
✨ Why the future IBM i workforce may look different than we imagined

One of my favorite moments from this conversation:

Maybe we don’t have a skills gap — maybe we’ve simply changed how people learn and enter the platform.

And of course, we wrap with One Incredible Thing:

Steve shares how creating his own “sanctum” space at home helped him disconnect from work… and Peg reveals the unbelievable mileage milestone behind her brand-new Toyota 4Runner.

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