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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

From Assistants to Agents: Self-Improving Agentic Systems with Spring AI by Christian Tzolov @ Spring I/O 2026

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Hybrid Modernization: Combining OpenRewrite’s Precision with LLM Intelligence for Spring by Raquel Pau @ Spring I/O 2026

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The Spring AI Ecosystem in 2026: From Foundations to Agents @ Spring I/O 2026

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From Contracts to Confidence: Spring Cloud Contract 5 in the Age of AI by Marcin Grzejszczak

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Plan Before You Build: Deterministic Planning Patterns for AI Agents by Dan Dobrin @ Spring I/O 2026

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DeckWeaver and an Interview About the AI Unified Process

As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations. For quite some time now, I've been collaborating with ChatGPT to help me generate content for such presentations much more efficiently. However, as I use Google Slides (rather than a Markdown-based presentation tool), I faced the significant problem of having to manually import the content into Google Slides presentations via copy and paste, which was very time-consuming. Hence, I had the idea for a ... Read more

Spec-Driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing) by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O 2026

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Claude Code for Spring Developers by Thomas Schilling @ Spring I/O 2026

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Repost: I don’t want an app for that

About 11 years ago I wrote this - in hindsight, of course - eerily prescient article (in turn inspired by an article by Scott Adams) on what I considered to be the future of UIs: I don’t want an app for that As it turned out, LLM UIs such as ChatGPT and agentic AI systems now pretty much work that way I envisioned the user experience for future computing devices to be like. Read more

Francois Zaninotto on The Bright Future of Developers

A few months ago Marmelab CEO Francois Zaninotto wrote this interesting piece on The Bright Future of Developers in the age of AI and the rise of natural language developers. In this article, Francois outlines how generative AI has changed (and is still changing) software development - and coding in particular - for good by introducing a new abstraction level for programming: natural language. He goes on to explain that, like with previous iterations, while this new abstraction level frees developers from lower-level ... Read more
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