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Looks like it’s all AI except one link. Can you find it?

• Your First Spring AI 1.0 Application - Making a full AI-driven app with Spring.

• Production-Worthy AI With Spring AI 1.0

• SEO for AI: A look at Generative Engine Optimization

• How does ChatGPT work? What is AI, really? - Good overview of the basics.

• Agentic AI delivers measurable value to early adopters - "More than one-quarter of respondents are planning for [AI] budget increases of at least 26% in the next 12 months. Nearly three-quarters of senior leaders believe…”

• OpenAI consumer pivot shows AI isn’t B2B - Where are the business successes and mass adoption? // “Who cares if consumers use AI for helping a friend plan a road trip, informal therapy sessions, or astrological readings? The stakes are low…”

• The luxury of saying no. - “Most people don’t get to say no. Not really. They’re not debating whether to use AI on principle. They’re trying to figure out how to keep their job without surrendering their judgment or drowning in tasks that keep multiplying while headcount shrinks. For most people, using an LLM isn’t an abdication of thought–it’s often the only way to carve out enough time and focus to do any real thinking at all.”

• Dark Leisure - ”in many orgs, there is too little incentive to pass on these productivity gains by telling your manager: “i found this neat tool that lets me do 8h of work in 3h! give me more work!”” // Some “real workers of the world unite” vibes.

• Azul CTO: Java at 30 Still Rules Enterprise Dev - Yes, and: Azul must have set a compare goal for this FY to get a, checks notes, “shit ton” of coverage.

• Opinions of using AI for solo role playing, reddit thread

The robot read it

I don’t read all the links I come across. Like the below, sometimes I have the AI read it. You’ve been warned.

At SAP Sapphire, executives polished their AI pitch with Joule, a copilot now destined to appear in everything from HR workflows to humanoid robots, while declaring the death of complexity through “suite-as-a-service.” CIOs, meanwhile, were urged to craft enterprise-wide SAP roadmaps that include cost-risk forecasting, hyperscaler alignment, and internal AI investments—despite no clear ROI, mounting transformation fatigue, and the uncomfortable feeling that they’ve been here before.

Nadia Asparouhova explained that the most powerful cultural ideas are “anti-memes”—things that work precisely because no one understands them, a claim ironically promoted via glossy press coverage. And Ed Zitron warned that modern companies are being run by “business idiots” who climb the ranks by appearing competent while doing nothing of consequence, suggesting that the true anti-meme may be merit itself.

Wastebook

• “the skills as defined in the first sentence are small fingers – which is not a skill.” iPhone-talk.

• “Are ‘friends’ electric? You won’t need to hold them in your hand. You’ll just carry a little coffin with a ghost in it that talks to you.” Warren Ellis.

• “I respect your privacy and time.” Angela Winter.

• Eating sausage and drinking vodka with Russian general, then early morning jogging. You Won, Now What?

Conferences

Events I’ll either be speaking at or just attending.

SREDay Cologne, June 12th, speaking (10% off with the code CLG10).

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