🔥 Episode Overview
Kito, Danno, and Josh kick off 2026 with a post‑holiday catch‑up—diet discipline vs. cookie overload, hosting chaos, and a one‑day “nightmare” illness—before diving into the latest enterprise Java and AI news.
They explore the Jakarta EE 12 release plan, what’s really coming in Java 25 (including why “LTS doesn’t mean what you think”), and evolving Hibernate/JPA usage patterns such as entities‑to‑UI, DTO‑driven designs, and DDD‑style aggregates.
The conversation expands into the future of Java concurrency (virtual threads and structured concurrency) and how it compares to reactive and functional approaches. From there, they dig into AI’s real‑world impact: cost, energy, security, guardrails, job anxiety, and the fast‑growing world of agentic developer tooling.
Along the way, they touch on NVIDIA, Azul, Payara, IntelliJ, Claude Code, Kiro, Brokk, Quarkus, and more.
📰 News & Topics
Java & Jakarta EE
- Jakarta EE 12 Release Plan
- Java 25 and the future of the platform
- NVIDIA launches Vera Rubin
- Azul acquires Payara
Tools & IDEs
- IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3
- Claude Agent in JetBrains IDEs
AI & Agentic Dev Tools
- Jakarta Agentic AI
- Kiro
- Brokk
- Claude Code
- CHI Playground
- Dan’s ongoing “AI get off my lawn” moment
Links Mentioned
- https://burkeholland.github.io/posts/opus-4-5-change-everything/
- https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5611070/report-finds-some-ai-enabled-toys-shared-inappropriate-content-or-collected-data
🎯 Picks of the Week
- Quarkus AI
- https://mvnpm.org/
- Ednzion fidgets
- Gitryin modular USB chargers
- Git‑based TODO
- Kent Beck – Test/Commit/Revert: https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/test-commit-revert-870bbd756864
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- OffHeap
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