ai-agents · 14 articles

Does the Agile Manifesto still apply to agentic development — and if yes, why not?

I kept the title exactly as is. Not a typo. That's the answer before I write another word: yes, the Manifesto still applies. And that's the problem.

In a World That Does Not Plan for You

Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926–1973: a woman who wanted to write as though writing were simply natural to her — and for whom it never quite was. That is not a lament. It is an observation…

The Matrix You Think You Know — and Why It Still Helps (Differently Than You'd Expect)

Most practitioners who invoke "the Stacey Matrix" are not using Ralph D. Stacey's original. They are using a simplification developed by Zimmermann, which reduces Stacey's nuanced…

Five Reasons Your Next Website Should Be Built by AI — And Why "Built by AI" Means Something Different Than You Think

Most conversations about AI-built websites start in the wrong place. They start with the technology — the models, the agents, the prompts. They end with a question nobody asked: "I…

The Wild 13

Michael Ende — author of *The Neverending Story* — writes in *Jim Knopf and the Wild 13* that the thirteen Wild 13 are the most dangerous characters in the world. They ride dragons…

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

The metaphor is borrowed. That is the first thing to say about it, because the borrowing is the point.

Where It Costs Nothing to Be Wrong

I never rode a beam of light. I only imagined riding one — and from that ride, conducted entirely in my head where it could break nothing, came relativity. The thought experiment i…

Small, Reversible Steps

There are days in the life of a practice when nothing dramatic occurs and yet, looking back, something quietly important has taken place. The eighteenth of June 2026 was one of tho…

Live demos and the distance to production

There were live AI-agent demonstrations at the VDMA Praxistag KI in Frankfurt — proper ones, on stage, in front of eighty people. Vendors showing what their platforms can do: auton…

Ten minutes to a landing zone, then the paperwork won

The landing zone took ten minutes. Terraform, one `apply`, a clean GCP foundation — networking, projects, an IAM baseline, the lot. This is the part everyone warns you about, and i…

Coding Was the Easy Part

Or: the night I filed an access request to myself.

Shipping the apply flow in a day

Today we wired the new hiring page end to end. Pick a role, paste your experience, hit send — you get an instant "received", and a real person picks it up from there.

When to reach for Fable 5

Fable 5 is the most capable model we've put our hands on — a million tokens of context and reasoning that thinks before it answers by default. The temptation is to point it at ever…

AI with a human in the loop

We use AI where it makes us faster and fairer — and we deliberately leave it out where humans need to decide.