I am a software engineer, hobby woodworker, husband and proud father of two sons; in reverse priority order. Here I write about software, the command line, and a bit of Cold War history. More about me.
AI maturity is not a measure of how much AI a developer uses, but of how the developer's primary bottleneck changes over time — from producing code to defining problems, managing context, and orchestrating human-AI workflows.
When deterministic business management collides with agile development, the resulting impedance mismatch burns out teams and distorts code. Just as engineers use transformers to bridge incompatible systems, the Product Owner must act as an organizational transformer to prevent system overload.
For each of my top 10 command-line programs and macOS applications, I explain what makes it useful and why I use it.
Transcripts of both interviews about my time in the NVA and Bundeswehr
Second part of the Cold War Conversations podcast interview; focussing on my transfer to Bundeswehr
Übersetzung des zweiten Teils des Podcast-Interviews, das sich mit dem Übergang zur Bundeswehr befasst
Übersetzung des ersten Teils des Podcast-Interviews, in dem es um meine Zeit bei der NVA geht
I was interviewed for the Cold War Conversations podcast about my time in the GDR's army NVA
I am restarting my home page
I presented about the Cloud Foundry Application Lifecycle at the IBM Cloud Developers in Stuttgart meetup
Simon Moser and I gave a talk about IBM Bluemix and the Cloud Foundry Bits Service at the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup
Peter Götz and I gave a talk on the Bits Service at the Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2016