AI
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Spec-Driven Agentic Software Engineering Is Not Vibe Coding. Here Is the Difference.
Most teams using AI coding agents are not doing agentic software engineering. They are doing expensive prompt guessing at scale. There is a difference, and it matters more than the tool you picked. The tooling conversation has been loud. Claude Code from Anthropic. ChatGPT Codex from OpenAI. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf. A new agent lands…
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Are You Already Running Performance Reviews With Your AI Agents?
AI agents are moving beyond experiments, demos and internal productivity tricks. They are starting to support important business processes. In some cases, they will take over parts of those processes completely. That changes the question. And that is much harder to answer than most dashboards suggest. A green status light tells you that the agent…
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Your AI is not your colleague. Stop treating it like one.
This article is about the alternative. Not the safe, boring alternative. The rigorous one. The approach that makes AI dramatically more useful precisely because it treats AI as the powerful but institutionally clueless tool that it is. Vibe coding works. Until it doesn’t. Vibe coding is not stupidity. It works well for a wide range…
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AI productivity does not come from watching better answers appear
Most organisations are not short of AI tools. They are short of better ways to organise work around them. That distinction matters. Because the current debate about AI productivity is often too simple. One camp says AI will make everyone radically faster. Another camp says the gains are mostly hype. Both are missing the practical…
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AI Coding Tools Are Only Exposing Your Weak Software Engineering Discipline
AI Coding is the end of pretending your engineering process is mature. The pitch versus the reality Every vendor demo looks the same. A developer types a vague instruction. The AI returns clean, working code in seconds. The crowd applauds. Another slide promises “10x productivity.” What the slide does not show: the codebase those snippets…
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How AI gives you back control over your software and your profits
AI driven software engineering frees companies from the constraints of SaaS software licences, but only with the right approach. Jan Baan and Ad Nederlof say out loud in their article in the dutch paper FD what the IT sector has known for years: SaaS software companies systematically skim off their customers’ productivity gains. AI offers…