Thoughts & Notes - Tobias Reithmeier

Part 3 of the series "Humans, Agents, Mandates: The Web Learns Identity".

Part 2 of the series "Humans, Agents, Mandates: The Web Learns Identity".

Part 1 of the four-part series "Humans, Agents, Mandates: The Web Learns Identity".

Part 6 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

There's a moment when many photographers question their Adobe subscription: the next price increase.

Part 5 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

Anyone who buys a 3D printer prints a boat, a dragon and a phone stand in the first week - and then faces the real question: what is this thing actually good for?

Part 4 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

The password is dying - more slowly than announced every year, but by now visibly.

Part 3 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

Hardly any app ships without an AI feature these days - a chat assistant here, generated text or images there.

Part 2 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

A good year ago, in my post on vibe coding, I played through thesis, antithesis and synthesis: democratization of software on one side, a technical time bomb on the other, and in between the developer as architect and auditor.

Part 1 of the series "Smart Home in Practice".

ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini share a side effect: everything you type leaves your machine.

Projects that have worked with coding agents for a while accumulate instruction files the way basements accumulate boxes: a CLAUDE.md in the root, one in the home directory, rules per subfolder, plus notes the agent left for itself.

It's a sight that puzzles many: a fresh northwesterly is blowing, but the wind turbines along the coast stand still - switched off, not broken.

Electricity costs something different on the exchange every hour - sometimes almost nothing at noon when the sun is out, a multiple of that on dark winter evenings.

A ten-hour flight, airplane mode on - and the music app shows grayed-out tracks.

Nowhere does music play as reliably as in the car - and nowhere is the temptation greater to open the streaming service again, simply because it shows up so nicely on the car display.