clojure-europe 2026-07-27

Good morning

We're talking about introducing AI usage at my workplace. One aspect that makes me really hesitant is how quickly it'll enable poorly thinking/less rigorous/less responsible coworkers to overburden their more bright/rigorous/responsible peers with swathes of nonsense. In a sense, a 10x kind of scenario, but in the wrong direction.

10x of a negative number is a bad time 😅

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I'm curious what the reasons for introducing AI in your organisation are, and from which part of the organisation the wish to introduce AI originated? Faster output of code is not necessarily a good thing as you point out, and there is a risk that developers will communicate less with each other about the codebase.

I think it comes from some developers who perceive it to increase development speed and (perhaps as a private desire) want to stay on top of the current trends, but it's actually unclear to me. I would bet some leadership layer(s) also have dollar signs in their eyes when they hear about increased development speed from these developers and just from reading about it in the wild.

See also #C0B7Q4XRM1U

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At my work there is pressure from all sides, even from some customers. Everyone seems quite taken with it, and no one seems to care about the societal and environmental consequences. I definitely feel the pressure.

Good morning 🌤️

(defn call-private-mind [input]
  (let [response (-> (OpenAiChatModel/builder)
                     (.baseUrl endpoint)
                     (.apiKey apikey)
                     (.modelName baseModel)
                     (.maxTokens (int maxTokens))
                     (.build)
                     (.chat (str input)))]
    (if response
      (println response)
      "No response received."))
    )
I think I'm an AI expert now 🙂 Still got the ol' Java interop in my blood.

Thought Spring AI wrapped the whole Agentic AI thing in a couple of lines too and Linkedin has gone nuts for it.