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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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2024-10-22 · tech
Is Agile a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing? Understanding the Developer's Perspective
Agile has been around a while and was originally advertised as the saviour of software development. As its popularity has grown — particularly with Scrum — there's a growing sentiment…
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2024-10-21 · tech
Embracing Collaborative Creation: The True Spirit of Agile Story Ownership
In Agile development, a tale of story ownership unfolds — a narrative often misunderstood and occasionally fraught with missteps. Within the Agile framework, the role of the Product Owner is…