Archive - Enterprise Technology & Excel Exorcism

The Junior Jobs Disappear. The Need for Seniors Doesn’t.

Building larger projects with AI has changed how I think about enterprise teams—and raised an uncomfortable question about talent.

17 hrs ago • Konrad Pfeffer

After the Honeymoon - Lessons from naïve Agentic Coding for Larger Projects

What building a complex web portal with Claude Code taught me about context, architecture, reviews, and engineering responsibility.

Oct 28 • Konrad Pfeffer

When AI writes both the code and the checks - can you trust either?

A recent case study analyzes what went wrong when developing a software system without code inspection

Oct 12 • Konrad Pfeffer

A Hundred Ways to Build an Agent: Giving RAG a Knowledge Graph.

Part 2: Why the next leap in reliable AI will come from combining vector search with knowledge graphs

Oct 8 • Konrad Pfeffer

September 2026

When AI Coding Outruns Software Delivery

Why review capacity, independent verification, and total delivery cost belong in the business case for coding agents.

Sep 26 • Konrad Pfeffer

A hundred ways to build an AI agent

Part 1 of [I don’t know] — Choosing a platform is only the beginning of owning the outcome

Sep 16 • Konrad Pfeffer

Introducing ETX2 Technology Dossiers: Starting with Meibel AI

Behind the conference headlines: A new series of independent, enterprise-focused investigations—starting with Meibel AI and its approach to complex…

Sep 9 • Konrad Pfeffer

ETX2 Lab: Monitor Claude Code Agent Teams with Application Insights and Grafana

Part 2 - Follow the Tokens

Sep 2 • Konrad Pfeffer

August 2026

ETX2 Lab: Claude Code Agent Teams on Windows

Part 1 — From Fresh Windows Installation to a Multi-Agent CLI

Aug 31 • Konrad Pfeffer

Your AI Coding Assistant Is Becoming a Cloud Bill

Agentic coding is turning a predictable software license into a variable infrastructure cost. Enterprises may soon need FinOps for developers.

Aug 30 • Konrad Pfeffer

Your AI Agents Can Talk. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Agent protocols are maturing. But orchestration is turning into a distributed-systems problem.

Aug 24 • Konrad Pfeffer

The AI ROI Illusion: Why Value Starts With the Workflow, Not the Model

At Ai4 in Las Vegas, two sessions approached the same uncomfortable question from different directions: where is the business value from AI?

Aug 19 • Konrad Pfeffer

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