Newsletter – Week 30, 2026

July 28, 2026July 28, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java OpenJDK July 2026 Patch & Security Update
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/java-openjdk-july-2026-patch-security-update/
Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/java-news-roundup-jul13-2026/

Articles

Generating Diagrams From Java Code
https://www.baeldung.com/java-generate-diagrams-uml
Unbiased Java CPU profiling with JFR in JDK 25
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/jfr-cpu-time-profiling/
Hardening Rust Code For Production
https://corrode.dev/blog/hardening-rust/
An Introduction to Loop Engineering
https://machinelearningmastery.com/an-introduction-to-loop-engineering/
These are the most urgent AI risks, according to 272 experts
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/these-are-most-urgent-ai-risks-according-to-272-experts

Videos

JDK 27 + Valhalla, Now! + Hackathon – Inside Java Newscast #113
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSQFsB1neU
AI Solutions with Spring AI 2.0 and Java [I/O] Inside Java Podcast 63
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlgvxMTDAu8
95% of AI Projects Fail. Here’s Why. – Josh Long | The Marco Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ftzJ33mCTI
My favorite Rust development tools, setups, and AI workflows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIKxkxbAkM
How to write peak Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVcPPT799_A
Why Canonical Is Betting on Rust for Ubuntu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw-1DDODk9Q
Rust in Ubuntu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doqwh1b4QyA
From Copy-Paste to Composition: Building Agents Like Real Software
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/agent-software-engineering/
Harness Engineering is not Enough: Why Software Factories Fail — Dex Horthy, HumanLayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M
Loop Engineering from First Principles — Kyle Mistele, HumanLayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIt_mTQp6mY
Why Agentic Systems Need Ontologies — Frank Coyle, UC Berkeley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sir59K8ZDPU
Why Large? Tiny LMs & Agents on Edge/Robotics — Cormac Brick, Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hacEQHHhu2Q
Building Closed-Loop Evals for a Multimodal Agent at Scale — Soumya Gupta & Jai Chopra, Uber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31GUkCBD-Uc
Notion’s Token Town — Sarah Sachs, Notion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I5W5QVAT8E
Graph Engineering, Without the Hype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDHcmWmvqvo

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Newsletter – Week 29, 2026

July 28, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 5, JHipster, Google ADK, OmniFish Build of Payara, Introducing Vidocq
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/java-news-roundup-jul06-2026/
This Week in Spring – July 14th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/07/14/this-week-in-spring-july-14-2026

Articles

Understanding the Rust hype for the busy developer
https://kerkour.com/rust-hype
Moving a Rust WebRTC SFU to thread-per-core: 70ms → 10ms P99.99 latency
https://pulsebeam.dev/blog/moving-to-thread-per-core
Teaching a Vision Model to See Like a Human Annotator—and Catching It When It Lies
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/ai-asset-enrichment-pipeline/
The Archaeologist’s Copilot
https://martinfowler.com/articles/archaeologist-copilot.html
In-House LLM Serving at Netflix
https://netflixtechblog.com/in-house-llm-serving-at-netflix-a5a8e799ea2c
U.S. and Japanese Companies Struggle with Different Parts of AI Adoption—and Offer Different Lessons for Making It Work
https://hbr.org/2026/07/u-s-and-japanese-companies-struggle-with-different-parts-of-ai-adoption-and-offer-different-lessons-for-making-it-work

Videos

The Java Story | The Official Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqGSg4b_cZA
Rust’s Golden Rule
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVJZaFEM9NE
The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-tps-service/
Context engineering with Dex Horthy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usufn8IQJgw
WTF Is the Context Layer? The Missing Infrastructure for Production Agents — Prukalpa Sankar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_1-3IO4ZQ
Don’t Ship Skills Without Evals — Philipp Schmid, Google DeepMind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vphxNt4wyk
Philosopher David Chalmers asks: When we talk to AI, what are we talking to?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjJOMcNU9w
Every company should have a Brain — Garry Tan, Y Combinator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBUyTS7SzV4
Stop Burning Tokens: Why self-improvement needs domain expertise first – Annabell Schäfer, Langfuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXxdtNlK04
“Software engineering is not about writing code” — Benoit Schillings, Google DeepMind VP of Research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P1hJ36rxM0

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Newsletter – Week 28, 2026

July 11, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Strict Field Initialization, GlassFish, GraalVM, JReleaser, RefactorFirst
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/java-news-roundup-jun29-2026/
Announcing Rust 1.97.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/07/09/Rust-1.97.0/

Articles

A Guide to Agent Skills in Spring AI
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-ai-agent-skills
Rust in the Linux Kernel
https://rusted-kernel.com/

Videos

Scripting JS and Python with Project Detroit – Inside Java Podcast 61
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg4NXE9tkIc
You Don’t Need Senior Developers Anymore? – Martin Lippert | The Marco Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUm6DOf1NHI
OpenAI just spent $600k on Rust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk165jYfHpc
5 Things You Didn’t Know Rust Could Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5tu3kMmAHs
The only guide you need for Rust’s Fn traits (Fn, FnOnce, and FnMut)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se3qSwKeLJw
AI Storage Blueprint | Sidharth Bajaj and Venkatraghavan Srinivasan from Meta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_BxLsijWA
Understanding the inner thoughts of AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DtMiRKg-cs

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Newsletter – Week 27, 2026

July 11, 2026July 11, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Hardwood 1.0, Endive 1.0, Azul Payara, Quarkus, WildFly, LangChain4j, OSSI
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun22-2026/
This Week in Spring – June 30th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/30/this-week-in-spring-june-30-2026

Articles

New Features in Java 26
https://www.baeldung.com/java-26-new-features
The Unglamorous Side of Rust Web Development
https://blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2026/06/25/rust-web-development-2026/
Your Rust Service Isn’t Leaking — It Could Be the Allocator
https://pranitha.dev/posts/rust-and-memory-allocators/
Scaling Java-Based Real-Time Systems: the Hidden Tradeoffs of Event-Driven Design
https://www.infoq.com/articles/tradeoffs-event-driven-design/
The state of the AI economy
https://www.exponentialview.co/p/the-state-of-the-ai-economy
Scaling Laws, Carefully
https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2026-06-24-scaling-laws/
How AI is reshaping human skills and thinking
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/07-08/ai-job-skills-thinking

Videos

ZGC: A Decade of Redefining Java Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of0fvtIRwzY
SIMD Vectors in the HotSpot JVM – Auto Vectorization and the Vector API
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCz6UtViEo
How to make error handling in Rust suck less
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXUyfMuCAuc
I Built an AI Meeting Agent with Rust and Next.js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZRdBS-R3Q
How Kent Beck shapes the software engineering industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHQQtjIOpw
Building Great Agent Skills: The Missing Manual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzCG3lw6O0

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Newsletter – Week 26, 2026

June 30, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: Spring Tools, Helidon, Open Liberty, TomEE, JobRunr, Hibernate, Commonhaus
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun15-2026/
This Week in Spring – June 23rd, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/23/this-week-in-spring-june-23-2026

Articles

MongoDB-backed Spring Batch jobs and more in Spring Boot 4.1
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/21/spring-boot-41-and-spring-batch
Self-Correcting Structured Output in Spring AI 2.0
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/23/spring-ai-self-correcting-structured-output
The many journeys of learning Rust
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/06/25/vision-doc-journeys-to-learning-rust/
How we found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
https://blog.cloudflare.com/hyper-bug/
Rewriting the world in Rust
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/rewrite-in-rust
Claude Code: From Agent to Useful Tool
https://serokell.io/blog/claudecode
How we migrated a live routing system using AI-assisted refactoring
https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/ai-assisted-storage-migration/
Passing Context Between Agents in Multi-Agent A2A Systems
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/a2a-context-passing-multi-agent-systems/
Architecting distributed agentic AI workloads across AWS hybrid cloud services
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/infrastructure-sustainability/architecting-distributed-agentic-ai-workloads-across-aws-hybrid-cloud-services/
Hidden Technical Debt of AI Systems: Agent Evaluation Infrastructure
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/06/13/hidden-technical-debt-agent-evaluation-infra/
Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence
https://spectrum.ieee.org/70-years-of-artificial-intelligence
What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathematics
Scaling out Distroless adoption With AI
https://engineering.grab.com/scaling-out-distroless-adoption-with-ai

Videos

How JEPs Drive Java’s Evolution – Inside Java Podcast 60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAh66mNiji8
Better Tools for Immutable Data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdLND9D81lI
Java Memory Management Best Practices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq2ZO3tQXW8
Nulls are dead – Moritz Halbritter | IntelliJ IDEA Tech Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpz-FSs6oO4
Rust at the Core – Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-polyglot-sdk/
Rules for Understanding Language Models
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/5-principles-llm-behavior/
The genius of Rust’s memory model
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGtWsfnnvh0
Unit Testing in Rust is actually easy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wAFdBVJbwc
How to Design an Audio Pipeline – Rust Code Clinic #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lspU84fuItQ
Creator of uv, ty, Ruff: How Software Engineering Is Changing | Charlie Marsh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw65FD4MGgs
Designing Math ft. Grant Sanderson (3Blue1Brown) I Config 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLSLN96Gn-w
Quantum Paradoxes: 5 Ways to Test the Multiverse | Maria Violaris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1WP3jgavbA
Tech interviews with NeetCode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xafwfGVBxos
Slow down to speed up: AI and software engineering
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wks1W-auKY
Build Systems, Not Code – Angie Jones, Agentic AI Foundation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD9-4fW2HhM
Microsoft Says MAI-Thinking-1 Was Not Distilled From Another LLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl5O7KVVF6M
Turn 10,994 Notes Into Memory – Paul Iusztin, Decoding AI & Louis-François Bouchard, Towards AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRM_TfEZcIo
When millions of AI agents meet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V04bm-3d6EQ

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Newsletter – Week 25, 2026

June 23, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: A2A Java SDK 1.0, Jakarta EE 12, JNoSQL, GraalVM, Micrometer, OpenXava, Gradle
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun08-2026/
Spring News Roundup: Point Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith and Spring AI 2.0
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/spring-news-roundup-jun08-2026/
Spring Boot 4.1 Adds gRPC Auto-Configuration, SSRF Mitigation, and Kotlin 2.3 Support
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/spring-boot-4-1/
This Week in Spring – June 16th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/16/this-week-in-spring-june-16-2026

Articles

Tool Calling in Spring AI 2.0: A Composable, Agentic Architecture
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/15/spring-ai-composable-tool-calling
Diplomat: Multi-language FFI for Rust Libraries
https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06/14/diplomat-multi-language-ffi-for-rust-libraries/
Clustering billions of products for agentic commerce with Catalog API
https://shopify.engineering/catalog-clustering
AI Scenarios 2030: Helping policymakers plan for the future of AI
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-scenarios-2030-helping-policymakers-plan-for-the-future-of-ai/ai-scenarios-2030-helping-policymakers-plan-for-the-future-of-ai

Videos

Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/java-aws-serverless/
Watch this Rust video (or you’ll never understand it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSB31t7pnzE
CI/CD with Robert Erez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x0eq5oDOJY
The hidden costs of cheap AI APIs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMvIMDWVLmQ
Fireside Chat with Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z47vatpsGPI
The Production AI Playbook: Deploying Agents at Enterprise Scale — Sandipan Bhaumik, Databricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObTPqBGsEbA
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Building AI Factories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcCGzfKdCd0

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Newsletter – Week 24, 2026

June 22, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-jun01-2026/

Articles

Can Java Microservices Be As Fast As Go? A 2026 Benchmark Update
https://medium.com/helidon/can-java-microservices-be-as-fast-as-go-a-2026-benchmark-update-e16a2e262fc4
Semantic Search for AI Agents at Scale: Retrieval and Ranking for LinkedIn’s Hiring Assistant
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/ai/semantic-search-for-ai-agents-at-scale-retrieval-and-ranking-for-linkedins-hiring-assistant
Rust Prevents Data Races, Not Race Conditions
https://corrode.dev/blog/rust-prevents-data-races-not-race-conditions/
Sustainable acceleration and the Agentic Software Development Life Cycle
https://blog.scottlogic.com/2026/06/19/sustainable-acceleration-and-the-agentic-software-development-life-cycle.html
Cart Assistant: Agentic Grocery Shopping on Uber Eats
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/uber-cart-assistant/
Orchestration Patterns for Multi-Agent Systems: Performance and Trade-offs
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/coordinator-patterns-multi-agent-systems/
Big Picture – Artificial Intelligence: Ten Investment Truths
https://www.morganstanley.com/im/en-us/individual-investor/insights/big-picture/big-picture-artificial-intelligence.html

Videos

Do You Really Need Hibernate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd0BNA6m3Kw
How Agentic Coding Can Help You Migrate Java Applications Faster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ENZKKtUs4Y
Rust and Web Development in 2026: Where It Actually Wins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9MusizUQlo
AI hype is starting to sound like religion | Tim O’Reilly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrQu3MRSQgc
RAG is dead, right?? — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6sFg_jdlE
Self-Play for LLMs, AI for Biology, Formal Verification, and More | YC Paper Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rWSvrFahIY
Loop Engineering: The New Way to Use Claude Code & Codex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjXIIH9vcv0

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Newsletter – Week 23, 2026

June 8, 2026June 8, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/java-news-roundup-may25-2026/
This Week in Spring – June 2nd, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/06/02/this-week-in-spring-june-2-2026
OpenTelemetry Launches “Blueprints” Initiative to Simplify Enterprise Observability Adoption
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/opentelemetry-blueprints-launch/

Articles

We are in the golden age of Open Source, surf the wave until it crashes.
https://kerkour.com/open-source-golden-age-ai
Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale
https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/sitar-agent-building-a-reliable-dynamic-configuration-sidecar-at-scale
Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/6/code-with-claude-coding-is-no-longer-the-constraint
Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway-spend-limits/
Building a File Semantic Analyzer: Guarding Outbound Data at Scale with AI
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/ubers-file-analyzer
Gemma 4 12B: The Developer Guide
https://developers.googleblog.com/gemma-4-12b-the-developer-guide/
How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/04/1138391/courts-coping-ai-lawsuits/
The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/05/1138437/the-meta-hack-shows-theres-more-to-ai-security-than-mythos/

Videos

Full-Stack AI in Java: From Cassandra to CarPlay – A Production SaaS Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeWOPypQ2CY
How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows in Java? – Insane Speed Test • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHZF-zJ3Bpg
Intelligent JVM Monitoring: Combining JDK Flight Recorder with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5d966dUfhM
Understanding Tuples in Rust is a must!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-oUIB0yq_8
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlXpOGIpITM
Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/architecting-deletion-system/
BDD, ADR, PRD, WTF: Capturing Decisions for Humans and AI Alike — Michal Cichra, Safe Intelligence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=504PvfXou5Y
Beyond Transcription: Building Voice AI That Understands Conversations — Hervé Bredin, pyannoteAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLlVpnGpds
Engineering voice agents: Latency, quality, and scale — Rishabh Bhargava, Together AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7b1PJc7SFc
The Art & Science of Benchmarking Agents — Vincent Chen, Snorkel AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNkFlCiij0U
SWE-rebench: Lessons from Evaluating Coding Agents — Ibragim Badertdinov, Nebius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUJWP6WpGM
Benchmarking semantic code retrieval on Claude Code — Kuba Rogut, Turbopuffer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKk7sDMGDEQ
Your next token is wrong and you can’t fix it — Brendon Dillon, Google DeepMind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r305-aQTaU0
Platform Teams Enabling AI – MCP/Multi-Agentic Tools across Linkedin
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ai-multi-agentic-tools/

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Newsletter – Week 22, 2026

June 8, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: WildFly, Micronaut, Spring AI, Apache Fory, GlassFish Plugin, Open Liberty
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may18-2026/
OpenJDK News Roundup: Vector API, Compact Object Headers and G1GC as Default in JDK 27
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/jdk-news-roundup-may18-2026/
This Week in Spring – May 26th, 2026
https://spring.io/blog/2026/05/26/this-week-in-spring-may-26-2026
Announcing Rust 1.96.0
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/05/28/Rust-1.96.0/

Articles

Rust vs Go 2026: 1.95.0 vs 1.24, 72% Admired Gap [Tested]
https://tech-insider.org/rust-vs-go-2026-3/
Agentic AI Workflows for OpenJDK Development
https://joelsiks.com/posts/openjdk-ai-agents/#markdown-handoffs
Building an AI-proof career
https://kerkour.com/ai-proof-career
In an AI world, the most valuable developers will be both artisans and builders
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/28/artisans-and-builders/
Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents
https://dropbox.tech/culture/beyond-code-generation-rethinking-engineering-productivity-in-the-age-of-ai-agents
How The Heck Does Shazam Work?
https://perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work
What you need to know about AI chips
https://epoch.ai/publications/chips-topic-overview

Videos

Java is Memory Efficient – Inside Java Podcast 59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_HCG1JPMQE
Java and WebAssembly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy0KyGLrbJo
Why Rust is the Ideal Language for Vibe-Coding — Daniel Szoke, Sentry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugUeZ8-b-u0
How I deleted 95% of my agent skills and got better results — Nick Nisi, WorkOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy7o1g2iHY8
Stop babysitting your agents… — Brandon Waselnuk, Unblocked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiG2ssibKGc
Inference, Diffusion, World Models, and More | YC Paper Club
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE1ZgJdt4uM
Most Enterprise Agentic Projects Are Doomed, Here’s Why — Jess Grogan-Avignon & Jack Wang, Accenture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGkzpxMdPn8
Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/realtime-gpu-workloads/

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Newsletter – Week 21, 2026

May 25, 2026 / ilapitan / Leave a comment

News

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Azul Payara, WildFly, LangChain4j, OpenXava, Google ADK
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/05/java-news-roundup-may11-2026/
Introducing Google Antigravity 2.0
https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravity-2-0

Articles

Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors
https://kerkour.com/rust-organize-large-projects-code-error-handling
Migrating from Go to Rust
https://corrode.dev/learn/migration-guides/go-to-rust/
Coding agents are giving everyone decision fatigue
https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/05/21/coding-agents-are-giving-everyone-decision-fatigue/
Frontier Risk Report (February to March 2026)
https://metr.org/blog/2026-05-19-frontier-risk-report/
Solving the Identity Crisis for AI Agents
https://www.uber.com/us/en/blog/solving-the-agent-identity-crisis/
Crosscheck: Benchmarking AI Models in the Real World
https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/ai/crosscheck-benchmarking-ai-models-in-the-real-world
Google I/O showed how the path for AI-driven science is shifting
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/22/1137813/google-i-o-showed-how-the-path-for-ai-science-is-shifting/

Videos

Java 26: Better Language, Better APIs, Better Runtime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86eK0Or2eIE
Java AOT in Production at Netflix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kEh8hxAP4U
Rust ruined other languages for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex2Z9kHufxU
Why Rust is different, with Alice Ryhl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9xD36NCtZ8
10 Context Management Techniques That Actually Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQglg4N_jxo
From 46% to 90%: Fine-Tuning Tiny LLMs for On-Device Agents — Cormac Brick, Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TiET_K-E_g
Reflections of AI: A Trilogy in 4 Parts • Rasmus Lystrøm • GOTO 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPt6Aeui5bM
Fast Models Need Slow Developers — Sarah Chieng, Cerebras
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeGsFFNqRLA
The Missing Primitive for Agent Swarms — Lou Bichard, Ona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Sui_OnSRlY
Your Coding Agent Should Do AI System Engineering — Ben Burtenshaw, Hugging Face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JomVvNDjGb8
Cooking with Agents — Liam Hampton, Microsoft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyHpnnlkTc8
Long-Running Agents: Evolution, Challenges, and Patterns — Ash Prabaker & Andrew Wilson, Anthropic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-WAvEPRwE
How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_JsIHUfUjc
Stanford CS153 Frontier Systems | The AI Native Company: How One Founder Becomes a 1000x Engineer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lri2LNYtERM
Stanford MS&E435 Economics of the AI Supercycle | Spring 2026 | Economics of Generative AI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODj7ndsKnts

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