95% of AI Projects Fail. Here's Why. - Josh Long | The Marco Show
IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE
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Josh Long has been on the Spring team since 2010, has given hundreds of talks a year, and has written a blog post every Tuesday since January 2011 without missing one. In this episode, he and Marco cover Spring's origin story, why live coding beats slides, what vibe coding actually costs developers, and why the JVM is better positioned for the AI era than most people assume, but only if the community acts on it.
🎁 Giveaway
What's Josh Long's first favorite place on the web, and what's his second favorite place on the web? Drop your answer in the comments below! The closest correct answer wins JetBrains merch or a free 1-year JetBrains product license.
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Teaser
00:37 Introduction
01:02 Josh Long's journey before joining the Spring team
03:06 Becoming Spring's first Developer Advocate
05:47 What did a Spring Developer Advocate do in 2010?
08:41 Spring Boot: Did anyone expect it to become so big?
12:32 Life as a Developer Advocate: blogs, travel, and conferences
15:32 Writing a weekly blog for 15+ years without missing one
19:14 Stage fright and speaking at hundreds of conferences
20:07 Live coding, preparing talks, and presentation failures
26:33 How DevRel changed after COVID
29:08 Why live coding beats slides
31:46 Advice for aspiring Developer Advocates
33:12 AI coding agents, vibe coding, and why more code isn't the answer
39:27 How AI changed search and daily work
40:17 The future of Java, Spring, and AI
46:48 Giveaway question
47:32 Rapid-fire questions
49:36 Outro
Follow Josh Long:
Website: https://joshlong.com/
A bootiful podcast: https://bootifulpodcast.fm/
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Edit: I see that many people have already answered this question.
1. Production
2. Spring Initializr
Even with human generated code no one is accountable when you look at the mass issues we have in production of the last decade.
Duh.
Your hectic guest is quite unhinged fanatic.
And his statement is outright lie of course.
Because Spring was created long before AI appeared.
95% of AI Projects Fail. Here's Why. - Josh Long | The Marco Show
IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE
10,267 views
Josh Long has been on the Spring team since 2010, has given hundreds of talks a year, and has written a blog post every Tuesday since January 2011 without missing one. In this episode, he and Marco cover Spring's origin story, why live coding beats slides, what vibe coding actually costs developers, and why the JVM is better positioned for the AI era than most people assume, but only if the community acts on it.
🎁 Giveaway
What's Josh Long's first favorite place on the web, and what's his second favorite place on the web? Drop your answer in the comments below! The closest correct answer wins JetBrains merch or a free 1-year JetBrains product license.
⏱ Timestamps
00:00 Teaser
00:37 Introduction
01:02 Josh Long's journey before joining the Spring team
03:06 Becoming Spring's first Developer Advocate
05:47 What did a Spring Developer Advocate do in 2010?
08:41 Spring Boot: Did anyone expect it to become so big?
12:32 Life as a Developer Advocate: blogs, travel, and conferences
15:32 Writing a weekly blog for 15+ years without missing one
19:14 Stage fright and speaking at hundreds of conferences
20:07 Live coding, preparing talks, and presentation failures
26:33 How DevRel changed after COVID
29:08 Why live coding beats slides
31:46 Advice for aspiring Developer Advocates
33:12 AI coding agents, vibe coding, and why more code isn't the answer
39:27 How AI changed search and daily work
40:17 The future of Java, Spring, and AI
46:48 Giveaway question
47:32 Rapid-fire questions
49:36 Outro
Follow Josh Long:
Website: https://joshlong.com/
A bootiful podcast: https://bootifulpodcast.fm/
LinkedIn: LinkedIn: joshlong
Twitter: https://twitter.com/starbuxman?lang=en
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/starbuxman.j...
Follow The Marco Show:
Instagram: Instagram: themarco.show
Join us:
Website: https://jb.gg/website
Blog: https://jb.gg/blog
X: Twitter: intellijidea
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/intellijidea...
LinkedIn: LinkedIn: intellijidea
Facebook: Facebook: IntelliJIDEA
Download IntelliJ IDEA: https://jb.gg/download-intellij-idea