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No, you are wrong. IBMer here. I was at first agains it, my background is for 2 decades startup(s) before I joined IBM, and I started slowly using IBM Bob and I
by pytlicek 12d ago
No, you are wrong. IBMer here. I was at first agains it, my background is for 2 decades startup(s) before I joined IBM, and I started slowly using IBM Bob and I must say it is really good and helping. With many integrations that works :)
- sroerick 12d agoLol
- aslkajdfklnlkwn 12d agolol, I've used it and Bob is a dumpster fire.
- fodkodrasz 11d agoDo you have to have experience with AWS Kiro? I'd be interested in a comparision between them. :)
- pytlicek 8d agorlly? cs it is IMHO based on anthropic / openai models. Perhaps they identified BFU and gave you some
- aslkajdfklnlkwn 7d agoso it tops out at sonnet 4.5 as the largest model it will use. the harness gives you no choice in the model so you have to hope it doesn't decide your task isn't complex enough and auto-route you to a smaller/weaker model which you then go round and round in circles with where a larger model would've 1 shotted it
- Saline9515 12d agoWhat is good about it then? What model do you use? Which integration are we talking about? Is it open source? How much the "transparent pricing" "bobcoin" is worth?
- nosefurhairdo 12d agoIt's not good, they hide the model (their whole thing is hidden model routing to keep costs low, but predictably yields bad results), there are no novel integrations not available in any other harness, it's closed source, and bobcoin is worthless because it's only usable with Bob.
- pytlicek 8d agoAnd what? IDK about BOB that is available for IBM customers, but closed source? As someone wrote in different thread is based on VScode, calling BOB's API. Also do you know how chatgpt works? same for claude? Agents? Governance? You know nothing and now just hating here :)
- aslkajdfklnlkwn 7d agothe bob team aggressively blocks you from calling the bob api and is constantly finding new ways to thwart calling the api directly
- rusticpenn 9d agoIt uses hidden models, mostly Claude and open ai models. They try to check the prompt and route to the model that is capable of it, thus saving money.
- pytlicek 8d agoI think this is it ^^^ Routing and optimizations :)
- EgregiousCube 12d agoIs it true that employees have to earn Bobcoins before they can use Bob?
- quietsegfault 12d agoYou get more bobcoins by using your old allowance and running out, then submitting GitHub issues that get ignored.
- alienbaby 11d agoNo.
- pytlicek 8d agoNo
- quietsegfault 12d agoAre you allowed to use Cursor, Codex, Claude, or OpenCode or is Bob all they allow?
- getatme32 12d agoI have been told only Bob is allowed but not 100% on that.
- pytlicek 8d agoAlso copilot and MS365 copilot, many local models etc... Many haters (companies, etc...) can only dream about availability of models we usually have here.
- nosefurhairdo 12d agoOfficial policy is to only use Bob. All of the best people I work with are using other tools because Bob is trash.
- insane_dreamer 12d agois bob helping with ur writing too? ;p
- jatora 12d agoWhen people say they have been in startups for long periods, does this mean they worked at a chain of failed companies?
- pytlicek 8d agoNo no no :) They want(ed) just change :)