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Technical stories about building, maintaining and extending business software: framework, ERP, AI skills and everything we learn along the way.
This is where we share the technical stories behind our software; patterns that work, choices we make, and what we learn from building our own low-code framework, an ERP system and the AI skills that speed up development.
The AI math for legacy software has fundamentally changed
AI has become much better in recent months at understanding and generating complex code. .NET architect David Tielke rebuilt a legacy application entirely with AI: up to 93x faster and for € 25,000 instead of an estimated € 2 million. With the necessary nuance for large enterprise software, the boundary is unmistakably shifting, and with it the math for modernising outdated custom software.
Read more →AI as an end user: every screen instantly accessible to agents
The Wercstat framework opens up every custom and ERP screen directly to AI, without separate integrations or scripts. Alongside the visual UI there is a digital interface for agents: handling tasks independently (headless mode) or assisting an employee live (co-pilot mode), with their own roles, authorisations and full traceability.
Read more →We spotted the problem a day before the client noticed it
Last week we detected a problem in a client's work preparation a day before their own organisation noticed it. How application management after delivery works at our company.
Read more →AI assistant in the attachment panel: managing files with language
The attachment panel in our framework now has an AI assistant. It not only answers questions about the content of files, but also performs management tasks based on an instruction in plain language: organising, labelling, creating new files and editing existing ones.
Read more →New attachment panel: document management in the browser
The attachment panel in our framework has been rebuilt with many extra capabilities: folders, labels, version control, sorting, filtering, virus scanning and AI summaries. An overview of all the features.
Read more →MS Word is no place for documentation. A text file is.
My daughter is sent an MS Word template as the basis for her bachelor's thesis. During my own IT studies we already worked with LaTeX; serious documentation belongs in plain text, separate from any layout.
Read more →I'm not a fan of 'vibe coding'. Yet this website was made that way.
To many developers, vibe coding doesn't sound like craftsmanship. Yet this entire website (including all the documentation) came about that way. Whether the result is any good, you can judge for yourself.
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