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Notes on AI architecture, agents, and what it actually takes to scale AI inside large organisations.
2026
AI Slop Grenade A name for walls of AI-generated text sent without care or refinement — little effort for the sender, more work for the recipient. The Missing Role in Forward Deployed Engineering In large German enterprises, the standard Echo–Delta–Dev pod has a gap: governance. The model needs a fourth role. Agents and Their Structural Dimensions The term 'agent' is used loosely across AI systems. Four structural dimensions help distinguish different types of agents more precisely. Frontier AI in 2026 – What’s Not Going to Change As AI capabilities race ahead, the fundamental constraints around reliability, organizational adoption, and job-level automation are likely to remain unchanged in 2026. Frontier AI in 2026 – Part 4/4: From multimodal chat to world models As multimodal generation matures, the AI frontier in 2026 shifts toward interactive world models and promptable simulation engines. Frontier AI in 2026 - Part 3/4: Hill-climbing to long-horizon reliability Next generation Benchmarks push development toward long-horizon reliability—systems that can perform consistently over time, manage state, and recover from errors. Frontier AI in 2026 - Part 2/4: Agents with agency As agentic systems mature, 2026 marks the shift from reasoning about the world to acting in, permissioned, and with memory. Frontier AI in 2026 - Part 1/4: Generative UI Extending 2025’s momentum, this first part explores how generative UI and intent-driven development may redefine what applications look like in 2026.
2025
Data & AI Conferences 2026: Your Essential Guide A curated guide to the must-attend tech conferences of 2026 with a focus on data and AI, from startup festivals to AI research summits. Reasoning vs. Language - what do we know from humans As large language models begin to exhibit reasoning-like behavior, evidence from human cognition raises an intriguing question: how far can language alone really take us? What is the relation between reasoning and language in humans EU Data and AI Companies to Watch - 12/2025 Edition What are the companies in Data and AI in europe or with European roots showing momentum going into 2026 - here's an overview
2006
2005
Strange technological developments A reflection on how future technological developments may appear as strange to us as self-driving cars once did to earlier generations. Metrics For Faulty Inferences It is my firm conviction that with current logic based inference techniques it is not possible to get “internet scale” or “Turing test able” reasoning.