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Java’s age is its AI superpower

September 9, 2026 · 36 min

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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. 

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