# Spring AI

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/spring-ai/

7 people recommended Spring AI in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and none criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 12 months, in 6 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Recommended for making LLM integration practical in Java, with local model support and a boring stack, though it changes a lot between versions.

Summary written by Claude from 8 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Makes LLM integration viable in Java (2 comments in the sample): "SpringAI has definitely made the Java ecosystem much more viable for LLM integration lately" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47093807)) "SpringAI is a great library for working with LLM's and related tech" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47073209))
- Boring, reliable stack (2 comments in the sample): "Spring AI 2.x - probably most boring stack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285864)) "Its working well for me at the moment." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393633))
- Strong fit for Java shops (1 comment in the sample): "Spring AI is fantastic for Java shops." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701243))

## What people warn about

- Changes a lot between versions (1 comment in the sample): "the spring-ai framework which has changed massively between versions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50258395))

## Other web frameworks people recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails/): 227 recommend, 75 mixed, 129 criticize
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django/): 200 recommend, 48 mixed, 82 criticize
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix/): 66 recommend, 14 mixed, 10 criticize
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel/): 57 recommend, 9 mixed, 22 criticize

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Spring AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/spring-ai/ (7 recommend, 1 mixed, 0 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.