Augustus of Prima Porta, cast of the 1st-century AD marble statue

AI in the software development pipeline

Assumed Audience Engineers probably, tech leads, CTOs, etc. Anyone interested in adding useful AI to their software development. As I was bolting on more and more autonomous AI agents at Energyworx this past year, I kept looking for the next bit of low-hanging fruit. Turns out there’s already a framework that maps where it all is: the SDLC. The Software Development Lifecycle which my OCD thinks should clearly be called “SDL”, but I digress is a pattern to describe how software ideally gets from not existing to “Computo, ergo sum.” ...

June 28, 2026 · 19 min · Rutger de Knijf
Farnese Atlas (2nd century AD)

Make Every Problem Claude's Problem

Assumed Audience Anyone using or considering AI coding tools. Gets into Claude Code specifics. So there’s this thing I’ve been mentioning to so many people recently: “Make every problem Claude’s problem”. What do I mean by that. Basically, if you have a problem. Make a folder, open claude and tell it (with /voice - Yes, I’m talking to my machines all day. Like a lunatic.): “Hey Claude, make a CLAUDE.md file with the following: You are now the owner of problem X. I expect you to first research how you can deal with it, at least for now and ideally permanently. I’ll run you once in a while, so you’ll get to check and/or re-fix and the opportunity to tune your approach.” ...

March 21, 2026 · 7 min · Rutger de Knijf