One Embedding per Job, or Two? Measuring Semantic Search in a Spring Boot Job Portal
I stored two embeddings for every job in my Spring Boot job portal and measured which one finds the right jobs. One of them barely mattered, …
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What I Learned Building an AI Code Reviewer with Java and Spring Boot
What I learned building an AI code-review workflow around GitHub Pull Requests, Spring Boot, and multiple AI providers.
Your agents don't need an LLM to negotiate
A manager hands a job to one of three workers, and nothing in the program calls a model. It explains the protocol, and what doesn't survive …
How to Create Agent Skills: Tools, Testing, and Installation
A practical guide to creating, validating, testing, and installing Agent Skills in Claude Code, from SKILL.md to plugin eval.
Introducing cbGenesis: The AI-Native ColdBox Starter for BoxLang
cbGenesis 1.0 is a production-ready ColdBox starter for BoxLang with auth, RBAC, security, tests, admin tools, and AI-native guidance.
Adding RAG to a Jakarta EE 11 App With Only the JDK and Jakarta Specs
Build a RAG pipeline in a Jakarta EE 11 app with only the JDK HTTP client, Jakarta specs and MicroProfile Config: no vector database, no …
Green Build, Wrong Task: A Working Agreement for Java Teams Using AI Coding Agents
Three ways AI coding agents waste a Java team's afternoon, and the spec, locked tests and capped review loop that stop it. Webinar notes, …
AI-assisted genealogy, a follow-up
A follow-up on AI-assisted genealogy: source quality with GEDCOM QUAY, per-site browsing skills, Playwright sessions, transcriptions, and …
One Database, Two Models: Building AI-Friendly Java Applications with MySQL JSON Duality Views
Explore MySQL JSON Duality Views in Java: simpler reads, safe document writes, ORM comparisons, and read-only tools for a local AI …
BoxLang AI 3.4.0: Gateways, Human-in-the-Loop, and a Full Security Stack
BoxLang AI 3.4.0 introduces gateways, durable human approvals, layered AI security, normalized reasoning, run control, and improvements …