Agents fail at stateful workflows not because they can’t call endpoints, but because they can’t tell if a call is valid right now. Hypermedia APIs publish valid next actions alongside current state. Less prompt engineering, fewer invalid transitions. Worth a look. robintegg.com/2026/06/03/h...

Great news if this is true? Free? Hopefully won’t need to worry about using my copilot tokens? x.com/israfill/sta...

Discovery before planning is now default in my AI workflow. Load context, run discovery, write plan, implement. Simple and repeatable. My May 2026 AI retrospective: robintegg.com/2026/06/01/m...

I was tired of rebuilding the same Copilot setup for every new repo. So I created my own ai-toolkit: versioned bundles of prompts, agents, skills and instructions, installable via JBang in minutes. jbang AiToolkit.java install discovery robintegg.com/2026/05/24/c...

“Plan mode reflects whatever the model thought at first glance rather than what the problem actually requires.” Built a VSCode Discovery Agent — investigation without committing to a solution. Explores, maps, asks, then briefs. ⬇️ robintegg.com/2026/05/13/a...

“Sessions end, context windows close, but the wiki persists and compounds.” My April AI retrospective — Granola, persistent knowledge bases, Emdash & more. robintegg.com/2026/05/06/a...

"MCP defines four primitives a server can expose: Tools, Resources, Prompts, and Apps." New post exploring MCP with Spring AI — Boot starters, annotations & a working notebook example 📓 robintegg.com/2026/04/26/e...

AI writing assistance has a hidden cost: your voice gets lost. Em dashes, long lists, filler everywhere. A reusable writing skill fixes that. Do this early if you publish with AI support. robintegg.com/2026/04/23/c...

“When you build your own harness, even a modest one, you develop a real feel for the features and trade-offs that larger tools make on your behalf. You know what they’re choosing to hide from you and why.” robintegg.com/2026/04/05/m...

Want to build your own AI tools on top of your GitHub Copilot license? The Java Copilot SDK lets you drive Copilot from Java. Use sessions, prompts, agentic workflows. No extra API keys needed. #java robintegg.com/2026/03/26/g...

JavaFX is back — now part of the Java Verified Portfolio. Proper support again across Java versions. Big for desktop apps. Modern Java can do way more than people think — even AI and full stack with fewer moving parts. Also: great hallway track, Brian Goetz, Stuart Marks, and Duke 🙂

You fixed it. The AI did it again next session. You learned. The AI didn't. Close the loop 👇 robintegg.com/2026/03/14/a... #Java #GitHubCopilot #ArchUnit

"Building with AI isn't just about better prompting; it's about System Design." Agents = Why. Prompts = What. Skills = How. Orchestrating AI Workflows with Copilot Agents, Prompts, and Skills: robintegg.com/2026/03/13/o... #AIEngineering #GitHubCopilot

AI lowers the floor, not the ceiling. It made starting yorkshiregolf.life easy. Finishing it? That was still on me. Don't confuse a one-shot prototype with a finished product. The mindset to ship is still yours to find. Site's live. Go have a look 🏌️ #Yorkshire #Golf #AI

Sharing a video that resonates with me little. My own thoughts bounce between are we just going to be machine operators and others still need help to extract the value in ai so there’s still a place for us. Who knows? x.com/atmoio/statu...

A nice mention for Awesome Java UI in the IntelliJ Java annotated monthly newsletter #java blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2026/03...

“I knew that I probably would only have a certain window of opportunity in which I'd have the energy to put it together so I roped in some ai agents.” #java #ai #retrospective robintegg.com/2026/03/03/f...

TamboUI - Another day, another great addition to the Java UI ecosystem. Check it out xam.dk/blog/announc...

The Java UI space is way more active than people give it credit for — and the community response to my recent post proved it. So I've built a home for those conversations: awesome-java-ui.com 50+ frameworks, open source, community-driven. Share what you’re building? 👇 #Java #JavaDev #OpenSource

Beware !!! Despite a positive intro, within minutes of giving Claude this prompt it had me questioning whether I had any software engineering skills at all 😭 😭

Looking forward to trying out GitHub’s agentic workflows. The feature usefully lowers the bar to defining and deploying automated jobs for your repo. github.blog/ai-and-ml/au...

Here is the new #JavaFX #LinksOfTheWeek, published on www.jfx-central.com/links. Thanks to @dlemmermann.bsky.social @frankdelporte.be #BeagleBoard @robintegg.bsky.social Artur Skowroński Happy reading, and have a lovely #Java weekend!

"Java offers a fully modern, end-to-end alternative — desktop, web, terminal, and even mobile apps — all powered by a single language. With one cohesive Java stack, teams and AI tools can reason, build, and iterate more efficiently than ever." #java #ui robintegg.com/2026/02/08/j...

I’d not had a reason to look at the Telegram platform up until recently - bc. openclaw. So many well thought out features for users and developer 💥 such a quick onboarding process to see messages flow. rubenlagus.github.io/TelegramBots... #java #ai #assistant

“2026 is going to be a big year for all of us in the tech sector because of AI, so I'm going to journal some of my personal journey“ #java #ai #retrospective robintegg.com/2026/02/04/j...

Yeah. Think I’m in the middle too. Perhaps I need to build my own custom ai tooling youtu.be/ws9zR-UzwTE?...

I’m trying real hard to get coding agents into my workflow but I’m hitting a wall at the moment. Watching console text flying past is engaging me. Relatable?

“With JBang, you can leverage your Java knowledge and the entire Java ecosystem to build AI agent skills” #jbang #java #ai #skills robintegg.com/2026/01/30/b...

maggieappleton.com/gastown a great in depth breakdown of gas town by Maggie Appleton.

If you've discovered "AI" works better on smaller teams working in rapid feedback loops with continuous testing, code review and integration, what you've *actually* discovered is that smaller teams working in rapid feedback loops with continuous testing, code review and integration work better.

I’ve unlocked full beef mode 🔓

“Start small. Start today - Leveraging Ai to build your own custom tooling“ robintegg.com/2026/01/21/l... #ai #justbuildit

leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2025/1... wow i wanted to know more and this article delivers! #ai #skills

I've finally got round (thanks copliot) to adding a new addition to my site: a Feeds page that lists the RSS feeds I'm currently subscribed to. It's a simple, searchable collection of blogs, news sites, and resources that I find valuable. robintegg.com/2026/01/17/i...

Tech podcasts are booming across audio & YouTube—but keeping up is tough. I’ve had to cut back, focus on what’s most valuable right now, and accept I can’t listen to everything. How do you manage? 2x speed, strict curation, skipping episodes? This is my 2026 list. #java robintegg.com/2026/01/10/p...

aifoc.us/dead-framewo... - this is a worry. How do innovative advances and techniques take hold in the pre-trained llm world?

“The co-location of UI, domain logic, and data that SCS promotes aligns remarkably well with what AI agents need to understand and modify code effectively.” robintegg.com/2026/01/07/s... #scs #ai #codingagents

Don’t wait for tomorrow. Jrelease today! Share your awesome projects with the community. #java #jreleaser #jbang #deploy4j robintegg.com/2026/01/04/j...

Java Ninja? I’ll take it 🥷

xam.dk/blog/lets-ma... - Yes, It should be. Let’s spread the word.

In the limited time spent with AI coding agents so far I would agree with this. I’ve got the most accurate and largest change sets into codebases that share both front end and backend. In my cases using SSR with Spring Boot and thymeleaf or j2html

I don’t think Chrome extensions get the developer love they deserve ❤️ So useful for developer tooling in your browser that you always have open 🌎 robintegg.com/2025/11/20/c...

Wow, this is the first time I make it on the front page of Hacker News! I'm glad so many people are reading my blog post announcing the open-source Java project I've been working on, Arconia, and one the main features: the Dev Services for Spring Boot. www.thomasvitale.com/arconia-dev-...

jbang.dev/try got a refresh providing samples AND ability to open jupyter lab where you can run .java AND make notebook using Java. Read more about it on www.jbang.dev/learn/java-i...

Super write up on BCE design @adambien.blog . Very clear explanation. Will be super useful instructions for my agents too :) bce.design

Command line tools make good contracts for MCP servers. Here’s an approach to expose a Spring Shell application via MCP robintegg.com/2025/08/25/e... #java #springai #mcp

jitpack.io is a great service to help #java developers to publish their libraries and tools. I’ve written a quick start example here robintegg.com/2025/08/02/e....

Hey Spring friends! I’m putting together a “Spring Community” starter pack, with friends of Spring, external contributors and prominent voices in the community. If there’s folks that you think I should include, please let me know :) go.bsky.app/TLqBjSF

Using iOS shortcuts to natively share a link to my web service without an app #java #automation robintegg.com/2025/05/11/c...

If you are a Maven Surefire user and ever wanted a fancy tree output for your tests instead of a bunch of logs, you absolutely should try this.