Peter Naur, Stochastic Parrots, and the Future of Software Architecture: My Thoughts from Software Architecture Gathering 2024
05 Dec 2025
Contents A Conference Between Tradition and Transformation The Forgotten Foundation: Peter Naur’s Mental Model Semantic Anchors: The Bridge Between Humans and Machines #TODO: Replace Human Coding With AI? The Stochastic Parrot: Understanding Limitations The Fish Bowl: Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence arc42 in Education: A Conversation with Claudine Allen My Core Theses 1. The Mental Model Remains Central 2. Semantic Anchors as Key Technology 3. Understand, Don’t Just Generate 4. Education Must Adapt The Future of Software Architecture Last week, I had the honor of speaking before an international audience at the iSAQB’s Software Architecture Gathering in Berlin. The conference offered not only technical depth but also philosophical perspectives on the future of our discipline in the age of GenAI.
My MCP Setup
03 Jul 2025
Oft werde ich gefragt, was für Tools ich bei der Arbeit mit LLMs verwende. Hier ist meine Liste.
Richtig arbeiten mit dem LLM
08 Jan 2025
In vielen Demos sehe ich, wie Jemand mit Tools wie Github Copilot zu Code Tests erzeugen lässt. Das geht so schön einfach mit der Maschine und schnell hat man 100% Code-Coverage.
Elgato Prompter: 2 Überraschungen, die du kennen musst 🎥🖥️
18 Oct 2024
Note Links sind Affiliate-Links Letzte Woche habe ich mir den Elgato Prompter zugelegt. Elgato ist bekannt für seine Qualität – und entsprechende Preise. Die Erwartungen waren hoch, insbesondere aufgrund des eingebauten Bildschirms mit USB-C-Anschluss. Doch ich wurde schnell überrascht, nicht nur im positiven Sinne.
iX: "Künstliche Intelligenz in der Softwarearchitektur praktisch einsetzen"
09 Sep 2024
Künstliche Intelligenz in der Softwarearchitektur praktisch einsetzen Künstliche Intelligenz macht Softwarearchitektur und kann Architektinnen und Architekten auf vielfältige Weise bei Entwurf, Prüfung oder Diagramm unterstützen.
Software architecture: "AI will complement our skills, not replace them".
22 Oct 2023
Software-Architecture and ChatGPT How will the work of a software architect change with AI?
Speed up your Podcast Editing with Generative AI (Developer Advocate Version)
21 Sep 2023
Recording and editing a podcast is a lot of fun. There is something special talking to each other and exchanging ideas, have a laugh and producing an artifact that potentially a lot of people can listen to to get some value.
A Comprehensive DevRel Metrics Guide (Part 4): Company Stages and Reporting
17 Sep 2023
Imagine you are working at an early stage startup and you are tasked with tracking meaningful metrics. And then imagine you are working at an enterprise company with the same task.
A Comprehensive DevRel Metrics Guide (Part 3): A Framework to Get Started!
16 Jun 2023
In part two of the series we discussed what DevRel north star metrics commonly get used across the industry. We also saw that it can be quite tricky to find the right metrics to measure because they are plenty, sometimes lag behind or the relation to your North Star is not direct but only delivered over time.
A Comprehensive DevRel Metrics Guide (Part 2): What DevRel Metrics should I track?
07 Jun 2023
Now that we got the Why? out of the way in part 1. Let’s face the difficult challenge on what DevRel Metrics we should collect in the first place.
A Comprehensive DevRel Metrics Guide (Part 1): Why Track Metrics Anyway?
01 Jun 2023
Metrics are the bane of existence for DevRel folks out there. At least in my perception. There seems to be a state of constant confusion and vague advice. I even watched a panel discussion about metrics once, where everybody seemed to avoid giving exact recommendations on how to tackle them.
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