IBM risks getting squeezed from both sides by AI.
1) IT budgets moving to AI infrastructure
2) AI could now cut software & consulting spend
Anthropic research showed where this was headed over a year ago. 37% of Claude use was computer/math work (coding, debugging and databases closely tied to IBM), nearly 4x any other category.
Brutal showing by IBM. The direct acknowledgment that clients have shifted AI capex spend toward core infrastructure — the question is how long the “reprioritization” lasts.