infoq.com/news/2026/10/java-… Java News Roundup: Grails 8, Open Liberty, GlassFish, Infinispan, LangChain4j, Spock This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the…

infoq.com/articles/distribut… From Microservices to Agents: the Next Evolution of Distributed Systems The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems…

maevyn.codes/decoherence The Decoherence Trap: When AI slop drowns out the signal in an endless sea of noise Of all the forms of tech debt, decoherence is the worst. It compounds exponentially with a system's rate of change, and AI is now producing it faster than ever, leading…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: AI by Design Phase | Product Managers vs. Designers | Individualized Tutoring | Text Labels | Thumbnails | Stopping AI | Unsubscribe | OODA Loop | Timeouts | Buzzwords | Registration

infoq.com/news/2026/10/uber-… Uber Automates Dependency Analysis across its Service Mesh Uber has developed an automated dependency analysis system that uses RPC middleware and production metrics to correlate caller and downstream failures. The approach classifies dependencies as…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: Skewed AI Use | Reviewing AI Results | Writing & Design | Losing Users’ Work | Autofill | Hover Effects | Time Gains | Asking What You Know | Multilingual Video | CAPTCHA | Social Presence

blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2026/… Using Artificial Intelligence to reverse engineer hardware After my mother passed away I ended up with a big box full of old film negatives containing photos from childhood family trips and similar. So I decided to buy a negative photo scanner and found…

addyo.substack.com/p/agentic… Agentic Verification The bottleneck moved from writing code to knowing it’s correct.

infoq.com/news/2026/09/googl… Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful…

infoq.com/articles/agent-har… The Agent Harness: What it is and Two Ways to Build One This article explains the development and operational layers of an agent harness through two implementations of a finance assistant: AWS AgentCore Harness and LangChain with Envoy AI Gateway. It…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… 3 AI Interaction Styles: Turn-Taking, Task Agents, Always-On jakobnielsenphd.substack.com In under 4 years, AI has acquired 3 interaction styles: Turn-Taking AI answers the questions you ask, Task Agents finish the jobs you assign, and Always-on Agents fill…

skills.wheresryan.sh/anatomy Anatomy · A skill for Claude Code A Claude skill that draws an idea as the real machine that does it: a live isometric figure you can turn, press and read.

infoq.com/news/2026/10/react… React 19.3: Adds a browser() API, Giving Client-Only Rendering a First-Class Name React 19.3 was released on September 9, introducing several features including the react-dom browser() API. This API allows components to opt out of server-side rendering…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: CAPTCHA | Undo | Robotaxi Safety | Better Usability for Educational AI | Scrolljacking | Floating Action Button | Long Forms | Secondary vs. Primary Features | Picture Superiority Too easy to fail CAPTCHA verification…

ghuntley.com/replaced/ if your team is too busy doing their 'normal job' to experiment with AI, you're preparing them to be replaced When Ralph was published last year, I sat on it. People who have been reading this blog for a while know this. I first came across the idea of…

jakobnielsenphd.substack.com… UX Roundup: Erik the Red | AI Thematic Analysis | Nano Banana 2.1 | Scrolling | Fast Asymptote in AI Skills | Average Users | Wishlists | Usability Testing Without Findings | Naming Consistency How Erik the Red discovered Greenland | AI now codes user…

ivokund.com/first-look-at-cl… First look at Claude Code mods (spoiler: yes, use one now!) I have to say I was sceptical at first. "Mods" – we already had hooks, right, so what can be so special? I'm not going to retell what mods can do. Nor do I recommend reading through the manual.…

infoq.com/news/2026/10/clef-… Cloudflare Open Sources Decision Models for AI Agents During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and…

infoq.com/news/2026/06/ai-pr… AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: from Code Review to PRD Governance Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initiatives…

infoq.com/news/2026/08/AI-di… How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained…