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  1. 2026

  2. talkI Stopped Writing Most of My Code

    Slide deck for IT's ABOUT TECH #13 in Basel. A 15-minute story about what changed for a long-time engineer after Claude Opus 4.5 and Claude Code arrived, and what happens to a backlog of years-old ideas when the bottleneck stops being time.

    AI-assisted engineeringAugmentationSwitzerland

    13 min

  3. Patents Per Capita Is a Vanity Metric

    Switzerland tops the Global Innovation Index for the fifteenth year running. As an engineer, that should make you suspicious of the metric, not proud of the country.

    MetricsPolicySovereigntyEconomicsSwitzerlandIntellectual property

    23 min

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