Volker Panzer

IT Transformation & Sourcing | AI with an Architectural Foundation | Governance |
I help organizations turn complexity into clarity & problems into solutions

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@devops_nk Anyone interested to see what it looks like under the hood?

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@milan_milanovic ...or set a few architectural principles first, and Claude will take care of the rest.

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Chancen? Risiken?
Das Thema hat diese Ebene doch längst überschritten:
- Effizienzsteigerungen durch KI sind längst fester Bestandteil von Verträgen zwischen Unternehmen und IT-Dienstleistern. IT-Dienstleister müssen entsprechend massiv auf KI setzen, um ihre Ziele zu erreichen
- Komplette Supportorganisationen werden zu einem Grossteil durch KI abgelöst.
- ...

Im Zusammenhang mit Risiken geht es v.a. um das Risiko, KI nicht maximal einzusetzen.

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@RetroMemoriesHQ MS-DOS 2.11.
It wasn’t that bad. It even included Edlin 🙂

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@roudyhermez No problem.

Everyone can make useless photos faster then ever. Nobody complains. They are just ignored.

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@JEFESINCORBATA Die Mitarbeiter der Malerfirma, die meine Wohnung renovieren, und die Mitarbeiter der Bäckerei, die Brötchen backen und verkaufen, haben keine bekannten Accounts in sozialen Netzwerken.

Trotzdem werden sie eine Zukunft haben.

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@vineerpasam Building the app yourself is no longer a challenge.

Solving a real problem, making it clear, getting it used, and showing the decisions behind it still is.

That is how you demonstrate you are good now.

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@ayesha_fatiima Engineers are not uniquely doomed. But their core skills are the ones that AI can already replace, their job market already priced that in, at least partially.

Other jobs are later, messier, or more regulated.

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@kyleleung_io The idea is an input. Founding is a decision plus risk. If you made the bet and you carry it, you are the founder.

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@gregnacu Yes, but your screenshot contains peek and poke commands. Bad example.

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@GvB1480 @ProfRieck Manche Entwickler nutzen keine KI, weil sie fürchten, dass sie Schwächen in der Codebase aufdeckt.

Nach aussen heißt es dann beispielsweise: Unsere Codebasis ist zu komplex für KI.

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Arbeitsersparnis nur „überschaubar“?

Selbst wenn die KI nicht für die Entwicklung eingesetzt wird, analysiert sie bestehenden Code, macht Refactoring-Vorschläge, schreibt Unit-Tests oder erstellt Admin-Skripte,...

Klar gibt es Entwickler, die sich komplett verweigern. Die wird aber kaum noch jemand einstellen.

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@sflorimm Assessing a complex client situation:
The real status, the dynamics, the politics.
And shaping a way forward people will actually follow.

AI can generate options. But it cannot read the room or own the judgment.

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@JesseCohenInv Note somewhere else:

Tau Robotics' humanoid cleaners (as shown) are jointly controlled by remote human operators and AI, not fully autonomous (Qwen 3.5 is used in the planning stack).

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Grok Bot is currently sorting my Spotify playlists.

I told it to add every liked song that isn’t in a playlist yet to the appropriate one(s).

Manually this would be a grind - and Spotify offers zero help:

1. Pick the song
2. Figure out the genre
3. Find or create the right playlist
4. Add it

It’s a great, almost risk-free way to get started with @bot.

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@Raynerdtech I would question the maintainability of a 16,000-line class.

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@milan_milanovic Question around 1830:
How will new generations learn to build houses without axes, wood, and nails?

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This isn’t limited to software. Consulting and a growing number of other knowledge professions are already facing the same shift.

One reason clients will still hire consultants is institutional trust. Boards, shareholders, and customers feel safer when a recognized firm has signed off on a recommendation than when the same conclusion comes from a model - even if the underlying analysis is comparable.

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@CodeWithTamara A successful software product is far more than "Building" or "Implementation".

A 10× productivity gain in implementation does not make the software 10× cheaper.

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@rezoundous There are devs who won’t let AI look at the codebase because it’s messy and they assume the model wouldn’t get it.