Management, change, development, and AI strategy — written from practice.
Europe has been losing to US tech for two decades. There is an opportunity to end that: by changing the game.
Palantir at the Dutch border. DigiD handed to a US firm against parliament's vote. France pulling the plug on Microsoft. Europe has the framework — now it needs to use it. Five priorities for sovereign tech.
SaaS is a coordination workaround. Europe is walking away from Microsoft. A lightweight commitment scheme could let France, Germany and Denmark share the commons they all already depend on — without giving up sovereignty.
Token-based AI inference is broken in three ways: energy, tokenomics, and privacy. LMPUs are the only architecture that solves all three — and they give the EU a credible path to closing the AI gap.
A small bash script that makes Claude Code speak its responses out loud. Pair it with voice dictation and you get a two-way conversation with your terminal.
AI needs human oversight, and automating away your workforce destroys the customers you need to survive.
How Devilsberg builds software using Extreme Programming with AI — pair programming, TDD, continuous integration, and small releases.
How a central data reconciliation system cleaned up meter data across the high-voltage grid — and how a change programme made data ownership stick.
Leading the team responsible for ING's full €4 trillion credit portfolio database — and building the data quality programme that gated regulatory reporting.
How we achieved full adoption of a knowledge base across four departments — without a top-down mandate, in an organisation with high staff turnover.
How I built a workforce scheduling platform using AI pair programming. Over 10,000 shifts planned.