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• 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…

• 2025-03-28 · tech It's time to rethink those take-home tests...

  I've recently read a lot of opinions and posts about take-home coding tests for job applications. While these tests aim to evaluate a candidate's technical skills, they often impose significant…

• 2025-02-22 · tech PR Etiquette: my pet likes, hates

  It's time to talk about Pull Requests. I enjoy PRs — they can tell a story. A well-formulated PR leaves the reader knowing what you did, why you did it,…

• 2025-01-19 · tech Why you should use Gherkin in your user stories...

  Clear communication between product owners, developers, and testers is often a challenge. Product owners focus on business goals; developers think in terms of technical implementation. That gap leads to misunderstandings,…