I’ve been exploring observability for Spring Boot 4, comparing Boot UI, Spring Boot Admin and Ostara. They each take a different approach to inspecting and managing applications, and I found some interesting trade-offs. robintegg.com/2026/08/10/s...

Spring Boot 4 Observability Options: Boot UI, Spring Boot Admin, and Ostara

A practical comparison of three observability tools for Spring Boot 4 applications

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This week I moved ai-toolkit over to the new VS Code agent plugin model. It aligned surprisingly well with where the project was already heading, and gave me a chance to add a new Javadoc Central plugin for Java development too. robintegg.com/2026/08/09/a...

Adopting Agent plugin standards in ai-toolkit

I updated ai-toolkit to follow the new Agent plugin standard, rewired the installer, and added a Javadoc Central plugin.

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I’ve started writing monthly AI retrospectives to capture what I’m actually learning as AI becomes part of my everyday development work. July was about skills, MCPs, feedback loops, and alternatives to the model providers. Hopefully it’s useful. robintegg.com/2026/08/08/j...

July 2026 AI Retrospective

Skills, MCPs, and feedback loops took the centre of my July AI work.

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If you’ve noticed AI coding agents nearly always generating controller/service/repository structures unless you give them persistent architectural guidance. For teams that prefer Screaming Architecture (package by feature). robintegg.com/2026/07/24/s...

Screaming Architecture for Agents

AI agents default to three-layer codebases because that's what most public projects use. Here's why that matters and how a reusable skill fixes it.

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My June 2026 AI retrospective is up. Copilot's token pricing pushed cost to the front of my mind, so I tested Ollama and OpenRouter for local inference, and kept building my YouTube-to-article pipeline on Spring AI and Gemini Flash. robintegg.com/2026/07/12/j...

June 2026 AI Retrospective

Claude certification, Copilot cost pressure, and why local-first AI experiments moved up my list in June.

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“This turns a 60-minute watch into a 5-minute read.” I documented six AI interactions building a YouTube-to-article tool: AI search for discovery, Copilot agent scaffolding, transcript API workarounds, and Gemini Flash for generation. A real look at AI-assisted dev. robintegg.com/2026/06/12/y...

From YouTube Videos to 5-Minute Blog Articles with AI

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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...

Hypermedia APIs for Autonomous Agents

An extended write-up of the hypermedia API hypothesis for agent workflows with Spring HATEOAS and HAL-FORMS.

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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...

May 2026 AI Retrospective

Discovery-first workflows, toolkit curation and Copilot still rules.

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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...

A Discovery Agent for Your VSCode Workflow

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“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...

April 2026 AI Retrospective

Consolidation, knowledge bases, and trying out the new wave of harness tools, a personal retrospective on April 2026.

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"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...

Exploring MCP with Spring AI

MCP gives your LLM access to external systems via your agent. Spring AI makes it straightforward to build MCP servers in Java using annotations.

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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...

Why a Consistent Voice Matters (and How a Writing Skill Helps)

A short note on why voice consistency matters as content output grows, and how a writing skill plus an agent-driven quiz loop keeps posts aligned.

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“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...

March 2026 AI Retrospective

Harnesses, orchestrators, and the growing ecosystem of AI workflow tooling, a personal retrospective on March 2026.

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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...

Getting Started with the Java Copilot SDK

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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

AI Feedback: Close the Loop

How to build a feedback loop at the end of every AI-assisted ticket, using a reusable Copilot prompt to update instructions and ArchUnit tests so the AI gets smarter session by session.

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"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

Orchestrating AI Workflows with Copilot Agents, Prompts, and Skills

A mental model for AI orchestration that mirrors clean code principles: Agents define the workflow, Prompts execute a phase, and Skills perform the atomic actions.

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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...

Java Annotated Monthly – March 2026 | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

A lot is happening in tech and beyond, and as we step into March, we have pulled together a fresh batch of articles, thought pieces, and videos to help you learn, connect, and see things from new angl...

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“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...

February 2026 AI Retrospective

A personal journey through AI tools, skills, and agent workflows in February 2026.

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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

Awesome Java UI - The Complete Guide to Java UI Frameworks

A comprehensive guide to Java UI libraries and frameworks for desktop, web, terminal, and mobile development. Discover the best Java UI solutions for your next project.

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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...

Automate repository tasks with GitHub Agentic Workflows

Build automations using coding agents in GitHub Actions to handle triage, documentation, code quality, and more.

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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...

Java UI in 2026: The Complete Guide

A comprehensive overview of Java UI frameworks across desktop, web, mobile, and terminal platforms in 2026.

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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