Thoughts, doubts, and other small digressions
Andrea MargiovanniPescara, ItalyI write about software architecture, artificial intelligence, and European compliance—the AI Act, digital sovereignty, sourcing—read as architecture to build, not as an obstacle to dodge. I care more about the right question than the fast answer.I write about software, AI and European compliance. I care more about the right question than the fast answer.
Explore the guidesYou Only Want Seniors. Who Should Train Them?
Automating beginners' work can make sense. Assuming expertise will keep forming on its own makes a lot less.
Worth taking your time.
Building an AI Project Is No Longer the Problem. Making It Part of Your Company Is.
A survey of 1,050 executives says 74% of organisations already using AI see measurable effects, and only 13% have scaled their projects as planned....
A Hundredth of a Second per Target
On Monday the Spanish data protection authority published the first breach notification in which the attack was reportedly carried out by an agent....
When Does a Company Know Something?
On Friday the form went live through which European manufacturers report exploited vulnerabilities. It contains a field asking for the date and tim...
The Cost of Changing Your Mind
For years we looked for digital sovereignty in the provider's passport, the location of the data centre, the software licence. Those are fair quest...
Guides
The essays on this site cluster around six recurring arguments. Each one has an index page with the underlying thesis and the pieces that built it, rather than a flat chronological list.
Artificial intelligence, honestly
I write about AI as a political and organisational fact before a technical one. This is the index page — my stance and the essays I've written on it.
EU complianceEuropean software compliance 2026
CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2, EAA, DORA. Six regulations that between 2026 and 2028 reshape how software is designed, sold and documented in Europe. This is the index page — with my o...
Digital sovereigntyEuropean digital sovereignty
Sovereignty isn't a flag: it's a lattice of dependencies. This is the index page on my essays about trying to map it, without ideology or rhetoric.
CraftThe craft of software
Architecture, technical leadership, decisions that last. This is the index page on how I try to make software in Italy and Europe — without copying the US, and without taking co...
AdvisoryIT advisory and sourcing
The IT services market sells labour hours and calls it value. Time & materials is a tax on operational ignorance. This is the index page on essays where I try to say so from the...
AttentionTechnology, attention, humanism
The 'user engagement' frame is a moral lens that looks neutral. It isn't. Digital products shape attention, and attention is the raw material of citizenship. This is the index p...
Pescara, Italy41.12°N, 14.21°E