April flew by. The pace of tech development didn’t slow, and the flow of news and knowledge didn’t either. This month, Emily Bache joins us to share some sharp finds about AI agents and test-driven

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Monthly curated digest of Java and Kotlin news, tutorials, and community content for April 2026. Highlights include AI coding agents and harness design, TDD with agentic AI, Java 26 updates, JDK 27 heads-ups, Spring AI agentic patterns, Kotlin's Koog integration for Spring AI, MCP in the Java ecosystem, and upcoming Java conferences. Guest curator Emily Bache contributes picks on AI-assisted development and test-driven development practices.

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