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Developer without a Cause / Denn sie wissen nicht was sie tun

Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Plausible Deniability by Design

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Human in the loop is the new “I have read the Terms and Conditions.”

There is a small ritual at the bottom of most software installs and web sign-ups that almost everyone has participated in, and almost no one has performed honestly. You check the box. You click Accept. Somewhere in a legal department, a box has been ticked. Responsibility has been transferred. You agreed. Whatever happens next is, in a very specific and very useful sense, your problem.

AI doesn't take work away from you.

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200

It just shows you how much work would be possible.

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There’s a comforting story going around right now: AI makes us more productive, saves time, and frees us from work. That’s the official version. The unofficial one is considerably less pleasant: many people are working more than before. Not because they have to. Because they can.

Work used to be constrained by things nobody actually liked, but that turned out to be surprisingly useful: time, friction, complexity. These weren’t bugs in the system — they were a kind of built-in circuit breaker. They forced you to stop at some point. Eventually you’d hit the moment where the effort simply wasn’t worth it anymore. “Good enough” wasn’t a philosophy. It was a necessity.

AI isn't just eating jobs. It's eating the career path.

Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0200

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There’s a comfortable lie in the tech world.

That AI makes us more productive. That it takes work off our hands. That it frees us up for the “important things.”

That’s true.

And at the same time, something much more uncomfortable is also true:

AI is eating the path we use to become competent in the first place.

Developers always thought they were outside the problem

For decades, the roles were clear.