Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner YouTube video by AI Engineer

Loved this presentation for the interesting first part, but there's even more gold in the third part of this video where Mario Zechner encourages to "stop the slop" in development
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Demystifying the AI Agent | Inspired IT AI agents sound complex, but they're surprisingly simple. A system prompt, a few tools, and a model doing the real work. Here's what's actually under the hood.

A prompt, tools and a loop are all you need add to an llm to make an AI agent. The magic behind AI agents nicely explained in this blog post "Demystifying the AI agent" inspired-it.nl/blog/demysti...

Jfokus Developers Conference Sweden's largest developer conference focusing on Java, AI/ML, DevOps, and emerging technologies.

Hej #Jfokus

Join me today at 11:10 in Room A2 to learn how you can level up your Java Streams with Gatherers.

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Digital Waste Spotting Shows Why More Computing Never Solves the Problem When systems struggle, the reflex is almost always the same. Add more compute. Scale the cluster. Increase parallelism. Allocate more…

Digital Waste Spotting Shows Why More Computing Never Solves the Problem by Wilco Burggraaf medium.com/p/digital-wa...

I think all these AI agents should make micro-managers happy. Finally a justified need to provide detailed instructions and check every tiny detail of the outcome.

Which is good, maybe they'll get busy there and leave us alone ;-)

Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail

https://lalitm.com/post/

Thanks for sharing. This sounds so familiar.
I especially liked the sentence: "Your attention is finite, but the capacity for a large company to generate bad ideas is infinite."

The golden thread AI can serve us as a force multiplier, augmenting our own agency and making the most of our own effort, hard work and value. Not by replacing it.

wrote some things I've been thinking about ai
... and it ended up feeling very personal

roe.dev/blog/the-go...

In some other programming language ecosystem they would say that you need to "see sharp" 😉

Closing the latest chapter in my career. Actively looking to get started with the next one. If you’re looking for a seasoned developer for DevRel, DevOps, and/or engineering roles, let’s chat!

Looking forward to speaking at @jfokus.se 2026!

I’ll be presenting “Level Up Your Java Streams with Gatherers” and show how gatherers can make your Java streams even more powerful.

📆 Feb 2–4
📍 Stockholm 🇸🇪

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Rumor has it there are still some tickets available 👀

European alternatives for digital products

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#Europe #sovereignty

JavaScript (No, Not That One): Modern Automation with Java Discover how modern Java has evolved into a powerful scripting language, eliminating boilerplate and enabling instant execution for automation tasks

Just published a new article on using #Java for scripting ☕
If you’ve ever wanted to automate something quickly but didn’t feel like fighting with Bash or Python syntax… Java might be a better option than you think.

Shebangs, single-file execution, @jbang.dev and more 👇
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Ways in which GenAI has changed my (tech) life so far GenAI changed everything: harder to find quality content, social media flooded with bots, lost communities. But maybe it's making us more human again? #GenAI #TechCommunity

"Ways in which GenAI has changed my (tech) life so far" -> GenAI changed a lot: harder to find quality content, social media flooded with bots, lost communities. But maybe it's making us more human again? #GenAI #TechCommunity

Spring Framework 7.0 General Availability Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

After a year of work, we are happy to share that Spring Framework 7.0 GA is now available! spring.io/blog/2025/11...

Time to celebrate, get a bit of rest and help the team to prepare Spring Boot 4.0 GA release planned November 20th 😊

#spring #java

I have a technique I call incompetence-based-mutation-testing.

Start making some changes. Bork everything, comment out half the existing code to just make stuff compile. Run tests. Watch tests pass.

Stop refactoring, go have a stern word with the tests.

Thanks for organizing this amazing conference! It was a very friendly and welcoming atmosphere and the sessions were of high quality 🤩

What a week!

Thank you to all our amazing speakers for taking us to infinity and beyond at #Øredev2025💙🚀

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On my way to @oredev.org in Malmö, Sweden!
Looking forward to meeting great people and giving my talk, "Level Up Your Java Streams with Gatherers", tomorrow at 1:00 PM
#oredev #oredev2025

Looks like a comfy way to travel. I'd assume you have arrived by now 😀

Why I am not afraid AI will take my job (Devoxx BE) Large language models (LLMs) are here to stay. So is their impact on many professions. Our work in IT is no exception to that rule. Some doomsayers pred…

Will AI take my job? I don't think so, and in my second talk at @devoxx.com yesterday, I explained why. The slides are in the companion app and also at speakerdeck.com/mthmulders/w.... Enjoy!

Best practices to kill your team proactivity Because the way we say no can make the difference between killing enthusiasm and creating real improvements

Best practices to kill your #team proactivity

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM.

techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

An eye-opener read for whoever is working with tech and sees the AI hype rise above control.

On my way home from the energizing #JavaCro25 conference. Saw quite some interesting sessions and had great conversations with a lot of amazing people.

Interesting panel discussion on the topic of "Software Development in the Age of AI" as opening session of #JavaCro25

Thanks Hanno!

On my way to #javacro in Rovinj Croatia.
Will be using quite some transportation modes today:🚶‍♂️ 🚉 🚌 🛫 🚗 ⛴️.
I'm only missing out on the typical Dutch bike 🚲

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