Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next - “Java’s momentum (by the numbers and the vibe) Oracle cited a 2025 VDC study claiming 73 billion active JVMs and reiterated Java’s position as the ‘#1 enterprise language.'"
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The Post-AI Org Chart - The people need to stop saying the quiet part out-loud about job loss. The focus should be on doing more with what you have, not doing the same with less people. But, hey, investors, amiright?! // “This configuration reduces headcount (1:7:49 -> 1:7:14) by 53%."
Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships - “If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact.” // A good overview of updating OSS software versus a one-time download and continuous use. Paying for support is one way to get the actual “supply chain” benefits enterprises and auditors crave. // The next question is: is it the job or the people running the project to do this supply chain stuff?
Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review - “It’s one of the very best, most thoughtful, most useful changes in iOS 26.” // I didn’t notice this, and it is nice of you so a lot of things with text and other content on your phone (like link blogging).
Treat your to-read pile like a river - ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with a to didn’t read list.
32 notes on AI & writing - “AI is better than most humans at producing prose. In a couple years, it will be better than most “professional writers” as well. Most text is not creative. Emails, policy papers, reported news. It does not desire to surprise or delight. It aims to convey ideas and information as clearly as possible.” // We should be using AI for corporate communication without shame. There is little value in internal, corporate communication to be “genuine.” The very important except is when you lay people off. // That said: I should test this theory by having Gemini rewrite my inner-comms for a week.
The Ditherinator - Convert your photos to shitty old versions that will print well on dot matrix printers. Love it.
UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated.'
I think “agent” may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now - “[AI ‘agents’ are] Tools in a loop to achieve a goal… wiring up tools to an LLM in order to achieve goals using those tools in a bounded loop.” // Also, he’s not a fan of the “autonomous” vision, which feels right. // “This category of agent remains science fiction. If your agent strategy is to replace your human staff with some fuzzily defined AI system (most likely a system prompt and a collection of tools under the hood) you’re going to end up sorely disappointed."