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• 2026-08-23 · ai ‘Death by Documentation’? How the EU AI Act Is Changing My Work—From Client Projects to the AI Classroom

  This week, three different clients called about AI plans—none wanted to talk LLMs or use cases. They wanted compliance templates. There’s a new fear running through German IT. The big…

• 2026-07-12 · ai Red Tape or Real Protection? How the EU AI Act is Changing My Day-to-Day Work

  We spent most of Tuesday undoing a fortnight’s progress. Our team had been building an adaptive learning tool for one of our education clients. The new EU AI Act provisions…

• 2026-06-28 · ai Bootcamp Promises, Classroom Reality: Teaching AI in Berlin Under the EU Squeeze

  This week I watched three different students assume the EU’s new AI rules wouldn’t apply to their hackathon prototypes. The conversation that followed took longer than their actual coding did.…

• 2026-06-21 · ai Teaching AI under Scrutiny: How the EU AI Act Is (Already) Changing My Classroom and Client Conversations

  This week in Berlin, a software engineer-in-training asked a question I didn’t hear last year: “If we build this, are we allowed to ship it to clients?” Not “Can we?”…

• 2026-06-18 · ai When the EU Regulates, the Classroom Shifts: Firsthand Lessons from Teaching AI Skills in Germany

  First week of the new AI curriculum block in Berlin. One student puts her hand up: "Dean, if the EU bans this model, do we just bin the project?" Nobody…

• 2026-06-18 · ai From Army Barracks to Berlin Classrooms: What AI Agents Get Wrong (and Right) About Real Learning

  Last week an AI study buddy failed in front of twenty-four adults at Masterschool Berlin. Not technically — it quizzed, it nudged, it reviewed code on demand. It failed because…

• 2026-06-18 · ai Two Sides of the Regulatory Coin: UK ‘Agility’ vs EU Process — An Engineer’s Perspective from Both Worlds

  I’ve had more arguments about documentation in Germany than pints poured warm in Yorkshire. This week’s debate about AI laws dragged me right back: the EU’s all-embracing AI Act on…

• 2026-06-18 · ai Why Europe Should Learn from the UK's ‘Agile’ AI Regulation — Lessons for Germany and the EU AI Act

  How much regulation is too much? That’s the question I keep coming back to, now that the EU AI Act is in its teeth-baring phase and Brussels is betting hard…

• 2026-01-31 · ai NLP — Before the "Interesting Stuff"

  Most NLP articles jump straight to the fun parts: intent detection, embeddings, transformers, LLMs. But before a model can figure out what a piece of text means, there's often a…