When you start a new role, many challenges are placed on you. Once you have been in a role for a while, you may feel like you aren’t learning as much, your career isn’t progressing, and you wonder what job you might move to next.Having been in that situation many times, my suggestion is that rather ...

I have a Spec Driven Project with 674 documents incl 181 specs, 429 tasks, and 40 project docs. About 1/3 of these are an acceptance sub-project to show the root project meets fit-for-purpose requirements. I used Fable to convert these to and from AsciiDoc, Markdown, and HTML. From this, I tried to ...

Optimising your memory allocations in Java could make far more difference than your choice of Garbage Collector and may even change which is the best garbage collector. In this post I look at a simple event to response latency benchmark, MarketDataSnapshot to NewOrderSingle at 50K/s for 30 minutes u...

While I am sceptical of using AI for release code, it has plenty of uses that previously weren’t practical, such as determining how easy your software is to use. If an AI can “figure it out” with a few hints, then you are on the right track. For me, the value of AI is what you learn using it. For mo...

Peter Lawrey is an Australian/British software engineer and entrepreneur best known for work on ultra-low-latency Java systems and for leading the open-source OpenHFT libraries. He is the founder and chief executive of Chronicle Software, a London-based company whose technology is used in trading an...

In a previous article I looked at one-shoting a solution to optimise code to show the variation in different AI. Thsi is the not the best way to get what you want however. More often you need to either refine the prompt or give feedback. After one-shoting the same prompt on multiple AI, I have creat...

As different AIs are implemented differently, they don't all provide the same answer, nor do they consistently outperform one another. The best approach is to use multiple AI and pick the one you like best.My goal here is not to declare a winner based on one example, but instead to show the variety ...

TL;DR Human-in-the-loop is essential; AI offers probability, not certainty. AI excels at word-smithing, so spend more time on documentation and context. Leverage diverse AI models for varied research, improvements, and analysis. Be wary of deskilling: if AI makes a task trivial, agents may soon repl...

A functional interface can extend a marker interface, functional interface, non-functional interface, and an annotation. A recent X poll suggested 25% of those responding didn't know that.

Table of Contents Introduction Superhuman Intelligence Is Already Here ATMs Didn’t Replace Bank Tellers About Me Multidimensional Growth Areas of Career Development Scope of Consideration Roles Where All Areas Are Important The Range of a Founder’s Role How Will AI Change Development? How You Ask th...

As many have observed, at best, AI generates either: Mundane, repetitive documentation or code that most experts already know or If an expert doesn’t know it, they can ask an AI to explain it anyway. Is it the case that if an AI can generate it, it’s not worth adding to your documentation or code? W...

One of the first challenges developers might face is getting generative AI to produce accurate documentation. Once you are comfortable doing this, the next challenge is creating enough documentation to be helpful without overwhelming the reader. Until generative AI came along, it might have seemed l...

This article was AI-generated using this project as context. AIDE Project. The purpose of this project is to see how much an AI could generate given enough context, and in this project, all the "source" code is generated using the requirements and unit tests as context. This follows the Next-Level D...

If it’s worth doing by hand, it’s worth automating. Just because not everyone is (yet) a world-class developer; that doesn’t mean we can’t step closer to that expert-level space. In this post, I will introduce AIDE (Artifical Intelligence Development Environment), a powerful workflow that merges AI-...

Introduction Java’s annotation system has come a long way since its introduction in Java 5. At first glance, annotations appear to be mere metadata markers on classes and methods. However, annotations can do much more than that. You can nest types within them, incorporate fields that reference helpe...

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This is the first in a series of posts supporting a talk I will be giving online at JChampionConf 27th January 27th 2025. Lessons learnt from founding my own company, and over 30 years hands on coding In these posts, I am looking to provide some theory as well as practical examples. One way to try t...

Not surprisingly, the system prompts for “o1” are restricted, but it can provide a hypothetical answer. Understanding the Role of System Prompts System prompts serve as the invisible backbone of an AI’s reasoning process. They define core objectives, ethical boundaries, and operational tactics well ...

Introduction Measuring an object’s size in Java is not straightforward. The platform encourages you to consider references and abstractions rather than raw memory usage. Still, understanding how objects fit into memory can yield significant benefits, especially for high-performance, low-latency syst...

Standard Java libraries and idioms may only sometimes suffice in high-performance and low-latency Java systems. This article explores unconventional yet practical techniques that push Core Java to its limits, focusing on performance, diagnostics, and determinism. Drawing on experiences from building...

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This article explores a subtle Java conversion puzzle that challenges assumptions about how arithmetic operations, implicit casting, and floating-point conversions interact. Inspired by complexities often encountered in low-latency and high-performance environments, it demonstrates why a keen unders...

1. Defining the Problem In many numerical computations, one would reasonably expect that rounding 0.499999999999999917 should yield 0, since it appears to be slightly less than 0.5. Yet, in Java 6, calling Math.round() on this value returns 1, a result that may initially seem baffling. This seemingl...

Peter Lawrey is the CEO of Chronicle Software, which counts multiple Tier 1 banks among its clients. He is a Java Champion who has provided the highest number of Java and JVM-related answers on stackoverflow.com. He also architected low-latency Java trading libraries downloaded 13 million times in O...

When working with Java collections, their ability to grow dynamically is often valuable. Yet, if you already know the required size, specifying the initial capacity can be more efficient. Doing so may reduce CPU overhead and memory churn, resulting in smoother performance. In this article, we will e...

Introduction Have you ever considered the performance implications of converting collections to arrays in Java? It's a common task; your chosen method can impact your application's efficiency. In this article, I will explore different approaches to toArray(), benchmark their performance, and determi...

As Java developers, we often face the challenge of handling very large datasets within the constraints of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). When the heap size grows significantly—often beyond 32 GB—garbage collection (GC) pause times can escalate, leading to performance degradation. This article explo...