Five Years of Hackathons — and What I've Learned About Judging Them Almost 5 years in the CTO role at SAP Switzerland means almost 5 years of Hackathons: First, I was in the lead, then other colleagues stepped up to lead the hackathon core team, which is a behind-the-scenes
I chose this title because the real title is a bit complex: AI is not the end of the commercial society built on the division of labour Yes, you can create software with AI. Yes, that is work done by some people today and those people will change the way
Ver-rückt — Why We Need to Unlearn Trusting Computers There is something about the German language: we often construct words with a specific meaning by combining two parts. Ver-rückt is one of these words. We put "ver" in front of a verb to indicate that something has happened — factually
Don't Invest in AI. Invest in Skills. This is not a text about human skills and how the AI hype ignores them. Skills rarely play a role in hypes—they take time to build, and the organisations that survive the hype are the ones that actually build skill.
Why Not Turn It Into a Shared Effort? One thing I have learned in my facilitator training is: The best documentation is the documentation you create during the event, through the participants. You want every use case to be submitted in a certain form? Better make sure your participants work
More than 30 years ago I stepped into a computer store in Lüneburg and asked the guys if they would not like to create an internet service provider together. For professional reasons I did not want to appear in the public at the beginning, so the story was only about
I did my first AI project back in 2018. Not because we wanted to “do AI,” but because we had a very concrete business problem. The objective was to improve the intake of tickets in our customer service organization. Using more than 200,000 messages and their classifications as training
TL;TD: AI is very good at writing code, but software development is mostly about non-functional requirements, context, and environment—areas where AI only works well with strong human guidance. The author’s week-long experiment using Claude Code with Jesse Vincent’s “superpowers” plugin showed that AI can meaningfully support
tl;tr - Christian Simpson is running a youtube channel focused on retro computing (of which I never heard of before). While the first computer I laid hands on was a Commodore VC-20, I spend much more time with the Commodore 64. Admittedly, mostly playing. My journey into programming and
The number of new tools popping up and the updates on the "old" tools in #AI is mindblowing. Every week, the new "best in .." gets out and while I am keen to try out new stuff, learn and try to bring tools into my personal productivity
Or at least, don’t go to work the way you used to. I don’t mean your mode of transportation, and I don’t mean the debate between working from home and going to an office—though both are interesting topics in their own right. And yes, remote work
I took the train to Lugano and contemplated about the new connections (which in the end did not work out at all, but that's another story). One of the thoughts was worth the title of a novel and I too to ChatGPT for some creative play. It came