AI
The code is finished. Now the thinking starts.
A finished function, a one-cent difference and the question of who actually understands what the code does.
Blog
Five blogs on five questions: AI, Crete, business intelligence, people and software. Written by Guido Mitschke.
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Five blogs, five angles
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- AI-First 6 articles What AI changes in software development, where the tools still stumble and what companies make of it. To the blog
- Crete 2 articles Stories from Heraklion and Crete: places, history and things you only understand after two weeks of holiday. To the blog
- Business Intelligence 1 article How numbers turn into connections, explained with examples from everyday life rather than from the manual. To the blog
- Human Intelligence No articles yet Judgement, empathy, responsibility: what is left for us humans when AI can do more and more? To the blog
- Software Intelligence No articles yet Software that understands the context it is used in and does not get in the way in everyday life. To the blog
AI-First
What AI changes in software development, where the tools still stumble and what companies make of it. Most articles here are practice reports, not hype pieces.
AI
When machines describe the world, and who gets to decide how
If AI eventually writes all the program code and nobody reads it any more, the specification becomes the actual program. Who then gets to define what is in it?
AI
The invisible watermark
An AI watermark is not in any file, it is in the choice of words itself. How that works, and whether it will change our language in the long run.
AI
AI tools reinvent the wheel every day
Imagine a craftsman who rebuilds his tools every morning. That is how today's AI coding tools work, and nobody is solving the problem.
AI
ChatGPT 5.4: more thinking, fewer errors, but is it really a leap?
GPT-5.4 brings thinking mode, computer use and 1 million tokens of context. My verdict: impressive in parts, but no paradigm shift.
AI
Why the AI-first approach matters for companies
AI-first is not a buzzword. A practice report on what changes when AI is not the icing on the cake but the foundation.
Crete
Stories from Heraklion and Crete: places, history and things you only understand after two weeks of holiday. Guido lives and works between Hamburg and Heraklion.
Crete
7.8 million ghost sheep: how Crete became the epicentre of EU subsidy fraud
7.8 million sheep and goats were registered on Crete that never existed. How a network cheated the EU out of hundreds of millions of euros, and why a vaccination campaign exposed the scandal.
Crete
Plateia Kornarou, Heraklion: history, Bembo fountain, sebil
On a few square metres, Venetian and Ottoman history meet: the Bembo fountain, the sebil and the memory of a Gothic church demolished in 1970.
Business Intelligence
How numbers turn into connections, explained with examples from everyday life rather than from the manual.
And what is Crete doing here?
Today is Life is based in Hamburg, and work is long since done in more places than that. I live and work between Hamburg and Heraklion. The Crete articles are about that: about the city, about the island and about the things you only understand once you have spent more than two weeks of holiday there.