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Notes from building with AI: what works, what breaks, and what it changes for companies deciding what to build or buy.

Why I built bezoekje.app
3 min read
Coordinating visits is simple until a family is already worried and exhausted. I built bezoekje.app to replace the group-chat chaos with one shared, account-free schedule.
Open SourceProduct Development
#Bezoekje#OpenSource#ProductDesign#Care
Anthropic launches Claude Tag: Slack bot or gatekeeper of your operating layer?
9 min read
Claude Tag brings AI to the place where teams already work. Useful, until the same agent also manages your tools, memory, and workflows. Then you are no longer just renting a model. You are renting the gatekeeper of your company.
AI Strategy
#AI#Agents#Claude#Anthropic#Slack
One evening, 25 messages, and a Firefox port
8 min read
How I ported Pointa from Chrome to Firefox and Zen with Codex inside Delano, and why the useful part was not just speed but completeness.
AI Strategy
#AI#Agents#Codex#Delano#BrowserExtensions
Are you still just a hardware company when software has become much easier to build?
7 min read
You cannot copy a hardware company overnight. The software around it is getting easier to build. That changes which software you can still afford to keep at a distance.
AI Strategy
#AI#Hardware#Industrial#BuildVsBuy#SystemsOfAction
Custom software used to be a dirty word
8 min read
Custom software used to be the expensive, slow, fragile option. AI agents change that math, not as hype, but as a new execution layer for software work.
AI Strategy
#AI#Agents#BuildVsBuy#Workflow#SystemsOfAction#OpenClaw
SaaS Apocalypse
9 min read
The UI isn’t the product anymore. Agents pull value away from dashboards and seats toward context, workflow, and execution. What to build in-house, and what to buy.
AI Strategy
#AI#SaaS#Agents#Automation#Workflow#OpenSource
From Idea to Working App in Days, Not Months
5 min read
I built an Android keyboard in a day. Open-source, privacy-first, with voice input via Mistral Voxtral. How AI agents are closing the gap between idea and product.
AI Strategy
#AI#BuildInPublic#OpenSource#Productivity
Your Colleagues Are Going to Build. Are You Ready?
9 min read
You don't need to be a developer to create software. What marketers, finance leads, and HR managers can now build themselves, and where they need help.
AI Strategy
#AI#VibeCoding#Productivity#Scale-ups

Recent articles

7 min read
AI makes typing cheap. But building software remains expensive. Discover why your senior developers are more valuable than ever, just in a different way.
AI Strategy
#AI#SoftwareDevelopment#Leadership#Scale-ups
1 min read
About job application frustrations, not being able to sit still, and why that one LinkedIn post delivered more than twenty job applications.
In the MediaOpen Source
#TalentMatcher#recruitment#AI#JobApplications
3 min read
The idea? An AI that checks whether a rejected candidate might fit another role in your organization. This candidate chose your company, took the effort to apply.
Open SourceAI Tools
#AI-implementation#BusinessCase#ProductDevelopment