Java Relevance In The AI Era - Agent Frameworks Emerge
RedMonk, Monday, October 27th, 2025
I recently appeared as a guest on the Context Window podcast hosted by IBM's Anant Jhingran and Ed Anuff. It inspired a couple of posts. This one is about skills relevance - namely Java and agents.
Ed said that he had talked to some people that still flatly refuse to believe that AI works in any context. Perhaps they've had poor results, or couldn't get something to work. My suggestion is to try again. The models and tools are getting better all the time. We also talked about the fact it feels like some people are saying you need to learn an entirely new stack in order to be relevant in the age of AI- trying to keep up with achingly cool kids. As someone that has tracked programming language adoption and usage for a long time this seems particularly wrong-headed to me.