What an IT Provider Knows That a Sourcing Analyst Doesn't
The structural blind spot of the IT services advisory market—and why closing it is urgent, before sourcing decisions keep going wrong at scale.
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The full archive. Sorted by date, no algorithm, no engagement score: just the things I wanted to say, in the order they came to me.
87 essays · 2019–2026
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Who Owns the Workbench
OpenAI buys Astral, Anthropic bought Bun. The quiet colonization of the development stack has already begun, and it's not about open source.
AI and IT consulting: goodbye to time & materials
AI is making time & materials unsustainable in IT consulting. What’s left to sell: outcomes, accountability, and trust. Not hours.
EU compliance 2026: it's architecture, not just legal
Over the next 18 months CRA, AI Act, PLD, NIS2 and EAA will reshape European software. Compliance isn’t a checkbox: it’s designed into architecture.
Things I've Stopped Doing Over the Last Fifteen Years of Work
Notes on the things it took me at least 15 years to unlearn—habits about code, stacks, business, compliance, hiring, language, and leadership.
Hiring in 2026: you don't need to use AI, you need to govern it
In SMEs, AI isn’t a tech topic. It’s a cross-functional skill: knowing how to govern it, assess its output, and use it to do new things.
The Smallness Paradox: Long Live European Regulation
Between the AI Act, CRA and NIS2, Europe is rewriting the rules: it’s not who runs fastest that wins, but who builds serious, secure, accessible software.
Hands and the Machine: Trust in Software
Software runs the world yet stays invisible. Between ai, open source and European rules, trust is built with care, choices, and responsibility.
Compliance Is Your Problem
Between 2026 and 2027, software becomes a product with legal liability. If the client only wants go-live, the risk stays with everyone.
After the Death of the UI: Does the Idea of the App Die Too?
Reading Mircha made me wonder what happens if the UI really dies. Maybe it’s not just the screen that disappears, but the application itself.
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