A King’s Day Reflection on AI, Architecture, and the Speed of Change Today, as the Netherlands turns orange and celebrates King’s Day, I want to start with a small pause. Happy King’s Day to everyone celebrating. It feels like a… Read More »Still Trying to Understand the AI Wave While Standing Inside It
by Marc van den Dobbelsteen The Layer We May Still Be Looking At I keep coming back to the feeling that many enterprise conversations about AI are still happening one layer too low. The questions sound familiar enough: how can… Read More »Beyond Copilots and Agents: The Real Enterprise Challenge May Be Data
A Principle That Feels Reassuring In almost every conversation about AI and software delivery, one principle keeps returning as the safe answer: keep humans in the loop. It sounds reassuring. It sounds responsible. It sounds like the natural counterbalance to… Read More »Agentic SDLC: Is Human-in-the-Loop Just a Transitional Phase?
I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Some people are strongly analytical. Others are deeply creative.In my case, both sides of the brain seem equally active. I’m a hybrid thinker. One part of me thinks like an engineer: structured,… Read More »When Both Sides of the Brain Meet Generative AI
That Software Disappeared — And No One Noticed Last night I had a strange dream. Not the cinematic kind where machines revolt or humans become obsolete.It was quieter than that. More procedural. Almost administrative. In the dream, software hadn’t exploded… Read More »I Had a Dream…
Two Years of Generative AI: What We Got Right—And What Comes Next Introduction: Looking Back to Look Forward In 2022, I published a forward-looking piece titled The Profound Influence of Generative AI on the IT Landscape. At the time, tools like… Read More »Reflection on our 2022 Vision
Introduction Intrigued by the uncanny similarities between the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW) in the 90s and the recent surge of Generative Artificial Intelligence (G-AI), I find myself reminiscing about the thrilling days when I rode the wave… Read More »The Profound Influence of Generative AI on the IT Landscape