Software architecture & applied AI
Calm notes on building software and AI systems that last.
Personal notes on software architecture and applied AI — with a focus on reliability, responsibility, and long-term operability.
Written from Linz, Austria — collaborating globally
Practice
Systems thinking for teams shipping software and AI in the real world.
Architecture reviews, delivery guidance, and writing shaped around reliability, operability, and long-term leverage.
Architecture
Make the technical shape legible.
Clarify boundaries, failure modes, and the operating model before complexity hardens into process.
AI Delivery
Ship applied AI without the theatre.
Bring evaluation, governance, and backend discipline into systems that need to behave under real load.
Advisory
Give leadership a calmer decision surface.
Support founders and CTOs with direct sparring on tradeoffs, sequencing, and durable technical bets.
Projects
Things I build and help run.
A product company and an open-source library — both built on the same bias for reliable, operable systems.
Localization platform
LingoHub
A translation-management platform that helps software teams ship products in every language — continuous localization wired directly into the developer workflow.
Open source · Java
Threadmill
A modern replacement for Quartz and JobRunr — durable, clustered background jobs and scheduling for Java 25 behind one small, idempotency-first API.
Writing
Recent field notes.
1000 ex-programmers
DHH put the pencil down at Rails World. Aaron Patterson flipped the joke. I buy the direction. I don't buy the year.
Read →Sep 28, 2026Code Gen Isn't the Constraint Anymore. CI Is.
Anthropic says Claude writes most of their shipped code and CI jobs jumped ~25x. Writing code got cheap. The queue moved.
Read →Sep 16, 2026Your Help Center Is the Real Model
AI support, product agents, and localization drink from the same help center. When the product ships weekly, stale docs become confident wrong answers.
Read →Working through a hard architecture or AI decision?
Direct sparring for founders and CTOs on tradeoffs, sequencing, and durable technical bets.