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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 20/09/2026

Your analogy reminds me of a flowery comic long past. I also love that Dungeon Crawler Carl has had such a strong effect on you. Now I also have to finish that series.

A single-page comic where one person is planting flowers and the other asks why he is so optimistic about the future brining flowers. Because she is planting flowers.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 19/09/2026

Sundar is happy. He was very sad in August

Sundar Pichai poking Gemini with a stick, asking it to commit crimes.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 17/09/2026

Supercharging Java with Quarkus: Building Intelligent Backends with Quarkus LangChain4j. Marcus Klaassen will hold a talk about this tonight in our Maibornwolff Darmstadt office. Come join if you are interested, here is the signup link: www.jug-da.de/2026/09/Quar...

Marco Klaassen on stage in the MaibornWolff GUDE office Darmstadt. Behind him a slide showing the title of his talk "Supercharging Java with Quarkus: Building Intelligent Backends with Quarkus LangChain4j". In front of him a large crowd of people listening, including a horse. To his left a fairy hiding in a plant, and further left a bistro with a monkey barista and a postit-sucking-lamp.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 04/09/2026

This might have been the last time I spoke about "Domain Rediscovery Patterns for Legacy Code". The topic is as important today, as it was when I presented it at DDD Europe 2024.

The Schmidtchen room. Audience in the lower half, in the center a screen showing a presentation slide with the title "Realize the benefits of early guards". On the left of that screen stands Richard Gross.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 25/08/2026

Techcamp Hamburg is starting. I am very excited about this conference. It has a very unique Kiez-atmosphere (the venue looks amazing) and the program is heavily curated.

Room and on the center left the stage at Klubhaus St. Pauli. The room is packed with people sitting in small table groups.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 20/08/2026

I am super excited that @devoxx.com has accepted two of my proposals. I can nerd-out about destructoring as first-class citizen in Java and how to secure a coding agent.

Two messages congratulating "Richard Gross" that his proposals have been accepted. "Secure your coding agent like it's malware" has been accepted as has "Destructoring is the future of Javas Encapsulation".

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 19/08/2026

I found a taxonomy I quite like and that’s what I present (with attribution). github.com/kajogo777/th...

Shows the agent sandbox taxonomy. Left column lists 7 defense layers. Middle lists 7 threats. Right column lists the 3 scoring dimensions.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 31/07/2026

Apparently the future is that we all have LLM bots working on our behalf, to which I have two questions. The first one regards the messaging: Are you nuts?

A Pinocchio wooden doll with an elongated nose. Behind it other wooden dolls in the window.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 26/06/2026

Automation with LLMs is non-deterministic and jagged. Can that even be considered automation and is that useful? * Foto by Valentin Ivantsov at Pexels

A couple of white and orange ping-pong balls rolling down a set of shelves.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 25/06/2026

I am very happy with my remaining schedule 2026. Next week I can share some legacy insights. The week after it's all about Kotlin and Java duking it out via split-screen live-coding. After the summer break it's legacy code again. Then my new favorite topic, the S in Ai stands for security.

Shows the remaining conference schedule 2026 of Richard Gross. It starts with "Domain Rediscovery Patterns for Legacy Code" on July 1st, then "Kotlin kontra Java" on July 9th.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 19/06/2026

Prefer no pushback, why not ask an LLM? LLMs are great when you love rhetorical questions. Ask smartly and you get back the answer you wanted.

Shows Google's AI Overview answer to "Do Ai-enabled developers produce better outcomes?"

Shows Google's Ai Overview answer to "Why do Ai-enabled developers produce better outcomes?"

Shows Google's Ai Overview answer to "What are outcomes and why does Ai not automatically improve them?"

Shows Google's Ai Overview answer to "Why do Ai-enabled developers produce worse outcome and slop?"

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 16/06/2026

Oh wow. I did not know about this that paper. Can you give the name because I can’t find it. Also did you read Secret History of information hiding? It is an overview of information hiding 30 years after the publication.

A book showing David L Parnas article about „The Secret History of Information Hiding“

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 13/06/2026

Seems to be a very hard podcast. Do you also take soft people as guests? :)

A screenshot of the „About“ section of „Señors at Scale“ podcast on Spotify. The description ends with „Just hard-„, cut of at an inopportune time.

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Richard Groß @richargh.de · 21/05/2026

Here‘s what my LinkedIn profile says. Last paragraph might give you ideas :)