@IBM - Senior Principal Software Engineer, working on Quarkus. Java Champion, developer, author, #cloud surfer and maker. My views are my own.
Holly Cummins
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At J-Spring, @felienne.bsky.social quoting Martin Luther King, quoting Thoreau, who apparently anticipated much of modern technology: "Improved means to an unimproved end."
Maybe it's kind of comforting that complaints from 200 years ago are still relevant in these uncertain times?
Fragments: Dodgy metrics for AI usage, history of tech removing jobs, benchmarking closed and open models, LLMs multiply existing cruft, AI slop driving us crazy, I am the Global Interpreter Lock for agents
martinfowler.com/fragments/20...
📣 I've created a new #quarkiverse extension - quarkus-flags, a lightweight and extensible feature flags/toggles/switches #quarkus extension: github.com/quarkiverse/... Feedback, feature requests and contributions are welcome🙏.
I've built a thing - thanks @quarkus.io, @kevindubois.com, @hollycummins.com and @hanno.codes!
Shall we have some accountability, and start calling them Farage-queues?
#borders
Ohhh, making an attack show only on Windows is clever - visible to most users, invisible to most developers. 😳
I was playing around with #ClaudeCode and thought I'd see how it handles creating a new #SpringBoot project vs a @quarkus.io project.
Prompt: I'd like to create a new <quarkus|spring boot> project
Spring: $1.83 - 7m21s
Quarkus: $0.4364 - 2m39s
Look at the tokens counts!
Honored to be listed in the Top 5 for @nljug.bsky.social's upcoming #JSpring conference alongside these legends: @hollycummins.com @nipafx.dev @garnier.wf @jamesward.com
Announcing Endive, a WebAssembly runtime built natively for the JVM, now a Bytecode Alliance project. Zero native dependencies. One JAR, every OS.
Check it out:
endive.run
bytecodealliance.org/articles/end...
