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How we work, what we build, and what we learn about AI, software, and working together.
Sebastian Beyer of ex-nihilo argues that reading every line of AI-generated code is not the only quality bar, and often not the best one. Tr…
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Sebastian Beyer of ex-nihilo explains why AI coding produces slop in high-taste codebases. When the real test of quality is a maintainer's i…
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Sebastian Beyer of ex-nihilo argues that the debate over whether AI can write good code misses the point. AI produces slop when verification…
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ex-nihilo GmbH built zedl.app as a live web app with paying customers without writing the code the classic way. This post describes how AI-f…
Read moreChristian Eichberger and Sebastian Beyer of ex-nihilo GmbH built zedl.app while both working full-time jobs. The trigger was a familiar prob…
Read moreChristian Eichberger of ex-nihilo describes how AI adoption in everyday life no longer follows simple generational lines. At a family dinner…
Read moreChristian Eichberger of ex-nihilo describes how AI-assisted work shifted in just a few years from copy-pasting out of a chat window to agent…
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The 2001 Agile Manifesto formulated four values and twelve principles for better software development. What followed was AgileFall: teams ad…
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ex-nihilo builds its own product Zedl mostly at Level 4 of autonomous software production today, with parts already at Level 5. That means A…
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Every major wave of technological change carries the same mistake: companies copy the visible tools of a successful organization and miss th…
Read moreex-nihilo GmbH uses AI tools systematically in day-to-day software development: Claude Code for interactive development and code review, reu…
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