One sentence in the Quarkus LangChain4j fault tolerance guide describes a double charge: "Retrying the whole method call restarts the entire agent loop, so tool side effects that already completed (charges, emails, writes) may be…
Every company wants something from you. You also want something out of the work you do. The freedom you have inside that company sits exactly…
My friend Markus Eisele put it in one line: code is cheap now, software isn't. Until recently, both were expensive, so the gap stayed hidden.…
A few months ago I asked an AI agent to write some Quarkus code for me. The code came back, and it worked. It compiled,…
Eight configuration mechanisms exist for agentic coding tools. A team of researchers went looking for them in 2,853 GitHub repositories, and what came back is…
The release notes for Quarkus 3.37.0.CR1 read like a busy week. A wave of entries adds an "AI skill" to specific extensions, including `quarkus-quartz`, `quarkus-hibernate-reactive`,…
The LangChain4j 1.16.0 release notes carry a line that should make anyone running a multi-agent system on the JVM stop scrolling: Introduce Blackboard agentic pattern.…
Recently there was a decision in the Java world that left a lot of people unhappy. The OpenJDK maintainers decided they will not accept contributions…
A multi-step agentic workflow is a stateful process. One agent validates an order, another waits on a human decision, a third finalizes it; each step…
JobRunr shipped ClawRunr, an open-source Java AI agent that runs on your own hardware and executes scheduled, recurring, and one-off background tasks. The part worth…
Quarkus 3.35 ships three optimizations that, stacked together, change the cold-start budget for serverless workloads on Java: build-time JAR tree-shaking, Profile-Guided Optimization for native builds,…
There is a tempting way to read the arrival of the Model Context Protocol Java SDK: as one more client library to bolt onto a…
Recently, I sat in on a talk at StartSe AI Festival 2026 that stayed with me for days. On stage was Isabella Piratininga, iFood's Director…