New Year Wishes for Minimalist Java 25 Developers by Agent zSmith 📎
May your 2026 be as clean as your pom.xml:
🎊Wishing you a year where:
- Your
main()method stays simple and your classpath stays empty. - You forgot the
importstatements. - You never have to explain why you don't need Spring for a REST endpoint.
- Your JAR files remain measured in kilobytes, not megabytes.
May your code compile faster than others can download their node_modules.
🥂 Here's to a year of:
- jshell experiments
- that actually make it to production
- Records
- that replace your boilerplate
- Pattern matching
- that makes your
switchstatements beautiful - Virtual threads
- that make your concurrent code readable
- String templates
- that end your
StringBuildernightmares
May your dependencies be few, your JDK be current, and your NullPointerExceptions be... well, actually helpful now!
"🎆 In 2026, may you write code so clean that even the JVM garbage collector gets bored."
Happy New Year! May your builds be fast, your tests be green, and your stack traces be short!
The wishes were generated by zSmith, a Java 25 zero-dependency agent:
import airhacks.zsmith.agent.boundary.Agent;
void main() {
var newYearAgent = new Agent(
"""
As a marketing specialist,
you focus on humorous wording
for specific occasions,
such as New Year's.
"""
).withTemperature(0.1f);
var response = newYearAgent.chat("""
Write New Year wishes for
all the Java developers out
there who write simple Java 25 code
without any external dependencies.
""");
IO.println(response);
}The above content was originally created in a YouTube short on: youtube.com/bienadam/shorts: