Category: LinkedIn
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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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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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Engineering doesn’t solve problems…
We just trade them in for newer, more interesting ones. And that’s our real job. You ever spend a week with your team fixing a critical system, finally push the fix live and feel that wave of relief? Only to get a Slack message two months later. “Hey, weird question. Ever since we deployed that…
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Simplify Add Lightness Martijn Veldkamp
This famous quote is from Colin Chapman. It was his philosophy, somewhere in 1950 way before ‘minimalism’ became fashionable. Least number of parts By tradition, Lotus uses the least number of parts needed in its products. Yet, they are impeccably engineered, retain their lightness and work dependably. This is a great analogy and one we…
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AWS’s S3 outage
# AWS’s S3 outage Tuesday’s Amazon Web Services mega-outage affected not only websites big and small, by disrupting their backend storage, but also a lot of apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology. The AWS storage offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and…
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Design Thinking Agile Martijn Veldkamp
Is it same-same but different? When to use one or the other How do we determine which frameworks, organisational models and activities will get us from the products and services of now to those of tomorrow? I think they are both compelling theories but for different pieces of the puzzle “Innovation is no longer just…
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“Who’s on First?”
The movie Purple Rain mixes up with Abbot and Costello Morris: Okay. What’s the password? Jerome: You got it. Morris: Got what? Jerome: The password. Morris: The password is what? Jerome: Exactly. Morris: The password is exactly? Jerome: No, it’s okay. Morris: The password is okay? Jerome: Far as I’m concerned. Morris: Damn it, say…