A short series of notes for myself as I learn more about the AI ecosystem as of September 2025.The driver for all this is understanding more about Apache Flink’s Flink Agents project, and Confluent’s Streaming Agents. Having poked around MCP and got a broad idea of what it is, I want to next look at Models. What used to be as simple as "I used AI" actually boils down into several discrete areas, particularly when one starts looking at using LLMs beyond writing a rap about Apache Kafka in ...
