Gergely Orosz

The digital landscape has shifted so rapidly that the concept of "original thought" is becoming a ghost in the machine.

The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage. This seemingly simple axiom, often attributed to the 16th-century Swiss physician Paracelsus, cuts through the binary thinking that plagues…

Last week brought us Spring Boot 4.1.

<p>At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_rLjQfjp0&list=PLEx5khR4g7PINwOsYrkwz3lTTJUYoXC53">Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage</a> talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point - October 2025), we show our frustration that things we’ve been saying for thirty years still need to be said, we say how anything like a manifesto reunion needs to be led by a younger generation, and opine on what junior

<p>“Prag Dave” Thomas (co-author of the outstanding “Pragmatic Programmer”) <a href="https://articles.pragdave.me/p/castles-in-the-air?triedRedirect=true">has loved programming</a> since he was young.</p> <blockquote> <p>Programming was how I could express myself. I wasn’t an artist. When I sing, dogs howl. When I draw, friends say, “Very nice. What is it?” I didn’t connect particularly well with people, even though I wanted to. And yet, when I wrote my first program, I discovered a medium which let me convert thought into action. All the ideas that were bottled up behind a wall of frustration

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