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AI Code Reviews on IBM i: Teaching the Machine to Taste Good Code

  First Sip – Today’s Coffee Today’s coffee is Kauai Coffee — Banana Crème . Medium roast. Smooth body. Notes of banana and creamy vanilla. It’s the kind of coffee that surprises you. At first sip, you think it might be too sweet. But then the roast balances it out and suddenly the flavor works. Good code reviews are like that. At first, they can feel uncomfortable. Too detailed. Too picky. Too many rules. But once the structure is right, they balance quality, maintainability, and team learning. And now that many teams are experimenting with AI-assisted code reviews , the real question becomes: How do you teach the machine what good IBM i code actually looks like? The Problem with AI Code Reviews Most AI tools can review modern languages fairly well. But IBM i environments are different. They have: RPG Embedded SQL Legacy code patterns Business rules buried in decades of logic Enterprise standards that are often undocumented W...

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