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  • Is the GenAI Revolution over already?

    Just recently I saw the article (that probably most of us already noticed with a gentle smile), that AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19% (on InfoWorld). And just now I came to another article on Futurism, that “AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies”.

    Heise.de picked up the article as well (Ernüchterung statt Euphorie: KI-Nutzung in den USA geht zurück) and outlines that the big hope of additional revenues has not come true (well … as if a technology would print money) and that the negative effects start to be more visible.

    Yeah well — I’m wondering where exactly we might be in the Gartner Hype Cycle. I guess somewhere near the “Trough of disillusionment”? I don’t think that there is any doubt that GenAI has some really really beneficial use cases. But to me it did sound a lot like the time when the use of big data was totally overhyped.

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  • Atlassian DataCenter EOL

    I just read on heise.de that Atlassian has announced their EOL (End Of Life) dates for several DataCenter products. The critical date – according to Data Center End of Life | Atlassian – seems to be March 28th, 2029. Quite some time yet, but well – a migration will take some time.

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  • Farewell to my 11.5-Year-Old RaspberryPi Weather Station

    Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and unfortunately, I don’t need it anymore. But admitting that a project’s lifespan is over always takes some effort — well, to me at least.

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  • The Difference Between DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering

    DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering — those three terms that often and quickly get mixed up. But they describe different roles. And I think it’s good to know the difference — at least if you’re somehwere working in modern software development.

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  • AI vs. the Legacy Black Box Codebase

    If you want to see a cool example of how Generative AI can be used to tackle one of the nastiest problems in enterprise IT, you might want to invest some minutes in reading “From Black Box to Blueprint.”

    What it’s about: Large organizations often have to rely on systems that are both business-critical and poorly understood due to lots of legacy. The article describes how Thoughtworks approached such a case: combining a multi-lens strategy (UI reconstruction, logic inference, change data capture, etc.) with AI-assisted “binary archaeology.”

    I really like the idea as it’s not about replacing humans, not hype but solving a real problem: complex — legacy — codebases. Something no one of us likes to lay their hands on.

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  • It’s only AI if it’s cool!

    I guess I am not the only one who is quite annoyed that nowadays everything is AI. Literally everything that’s beyond an if/else is advertised as AI. Machine Learning doesn’t seem to exist anymore.

    Unless … Unless it’s not cool!

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  • The Double-Edged Sword of Generative AI in Linux Troubleshooting

    I’ve recently been experimenting with how generative AI can support Linux debugging. The experience was both impressive and frustrating — depending on whether I was diagnosing or actually fixing a problem.

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  • What Mountaineering and Teams have in Common

    In business, it’s trust. Aki Kärkkäinen’s piece “From Rope Teams to Remote Teams” asks the real question: would you trust your team enough to share a rope?

    I really liked this paragraph: “I’m reminded of the pandemic when social distancing was introduced—an unfortunate term, because what was meant was actually physical distancing. Most companies obsess over physical proximity when the real challenge is connection distance.”

    And further on, Aki also draws the line to AI tooling. Give it a read!

    (Well okay, and I liked the parallels of teamwork and hiking ;-))

    Oh and I just noticed that Aki is on Mastodon as well: @akikoo@mastodon.social!

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  • Have We Left Web Radio Behind?

    Since my decision to , I have consciously moved away from Spotify. Instead, I chose to use Navidrome as my personal music server combined with Symfonium as the client. This setup allowed me to rediscover my own MP3 collection — a treasure of gems I hadn’t listened to in years! And I can tell: I really enjoyed the feeling of reconnecting with my personal music library.

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  • Goodbye Facebook

    Finally! My Facebook account is deleted.

    My Facebook-Exit is a long story. I never really used it a lot. I used it mostly to have the possibility to contact some people. Especially from university when they went to other countries or so.

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