OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access - Ars Technica - Good overview from a sea of, as usual, weird coverage and company announced.
A Field Guide to Rapidly Improving AI Products – O’Reilly - Testing AI-driven software: you need to track errors and mistakes and tune the prompts to get the results you want. This is more like herding cats than the usual testing that is straightforward.
money dysmorphia - To individuals, the economy is everyday, re-occurring costs and income, not stonks. // “When people talk about ‘the economy’ usually that’s a proxy for wages versus housing costs, healthcare costs and student loan debt."
The average college student today - Us Gen-X’ers have fully entered the “you kids, get off my lawn” golden years…and I’m here for it!
Writing good docs is important for agentic AI and Model Context Protocol, and developers are terrible at writing good docs
One quick things up-top: this week (tomorrow!), get an overview and demos of the private AI stack and development frameworks we’ve been working on at Tanzu. Register to check it out online, either live or the recording after the event.
Spy on the DM with Model Context Protocol Servers in JavaHere’s my latest walk-through is writing Model Context Protocol Server tools…to play D&D. Here, I build some slightly more complicated Oracles and show how to do logging.
Why Are All the Smart People So Bad at History? - “The structure of rationalist and technocratic thinking incentivizes a flattened historical consciousness. They favor systems over stories. They trust models over memories. They crave optimization, not interpretation."
JavaOne 2025 Highlights Developer Productivity, Language Modernization - A quick overview of the conference themes and Java-world happenings.
How agentic AI makes decisions and solves problems - ”In 2025, 25% of companies that use genAI will launch agentic AI pilots or proofs of concept, according to report by professional services firm Deloitte. In 2027, that number will grow to half of all companies.”