Category: AI
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Why Agents are Slowing Us Down (and Why That’s Okay)
I’ve seen more posts then I care for where someone proudly presents a dashboard tracking “tokens consumed” as the team’s primary AI productivity metric. Not bugs fixed. Not features shipped. Not incidents avoided. Tokens. As if buying more plane tickets proves you’re traveling somewhere useful. It would be funny if it wasn’t setting up some…
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AI Coding Tools: a bit of a time machine
I think that most people can relate. Over time my career and role shifted. Less time building things directly, more time designing systems, reviewing architectures, and guiding teams. Important work, but further away from the joy of experimenting and writing code. During my Christmas break something changed. Tools like Claude Code have fundamentally changed. They…
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The Second Opinion that wasn’t
You asked ChatGPT whether your strategy made sense. It gave you five well-reasoned paragraphs explaining why it did. You felt better. That feeling is the problem. We have quietly started using AI as a sounding board for big decisions. Architecture choices, technology bets, platform strategies, build-vs-buy calls. We share our thinking, ask the model to…
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Why Single-Lens thinking is harming your Architecture Decisions
# Why Single-Lens thinking is harming your Architecture Decisions During summer when the mosquitos were swarming around our farm, a dragonfly hovered right in front of me. Just hung there, mid-air, perfectly still. My dogs didn’t notice. I couldn’t stop staring. There’s something almost alien about how a dragonfly moves. It can fly in six…
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Can you handle it?
The current evolution from prompt engineering to autonomous AI agents has accidentally validated decades of management theory. These latest generation of AI…
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Balancing Act: Robustness with Customer Focus
AI of course, still in love with nano banana Balancing Act: Robustness with Customer Focus Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual…
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Stop waiting for “Perfect Data”!
# Stop waiting for “Perfect Data”! It’s never getting off the couch! The single greatest killer of innovation is not bad preparation but poor administration. Innovation projects are uniquely vulnerable to this because they are not simple IT upgrades, they are fundamental changes to business processes. – **The Hype Trap:** The 95% of failures are…
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Stop waiting for “Perfect Data”!
Having fun with Banano Nano Stop waiting for "Perfect Data"! Martijn Veldkamp "Strategic Technology Leader | Customer’s Virtual CTO | Salesforce Expert |…
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Are We Building Lasting Value or the World’s Most Expensive Bubble?
The AI infrastructure boom is not an abstract headline to me. It’s hitting close to home. Here in the Netherlands, close to where I live. Microsoft has acquired 50 hectares for a new data center, with the CEO citing 300,000 customers who “want to store their data close by in a sovereign country.” This is…
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Automation Without Purpose: Now With 10x More Useless Reports
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila by Mitch Ratcl…