Search the blog

• The Bottleneck in Supply Chain Security Has Moved

  Zero-CVE base images ship within hours. Propagating them across thousands of repository references is now the bottleneck.

  Yonatan Reznik28 Aug 20266 mins read

• The Prompt Won't Save You: Three Objections, Three Tests

  Three Reddit objections to our hiring-bias study, run as experiments. A placebo control showed a blank line moves the score as much as a school does.

  Bogdan Szabo20 Aug 202612 mins read

• AI Is Rewriting The Engineering Job Description

  AI is rearranging every engineering role around a machine that now writes the code. Here is what each role becomes, and what the studies say.

  Loredana Moanga28 Jul 202612 mins read

• The Frontier Isn't Special: Claude Fable 5 and Hiring Bias

  Anthropic's most capable model lands mid-pack on résumé-screening bias. Frontier capability neither fixes nor worsens silent hiring bias.

  Bogdan Szabo06 Jul 20267 mins read

• When Prompts Are Not Enough: A Field Guide to Reliability

  What makes an AI agent reliable when the outcome depends on a past decision? A 35 turn campaign shows why memory lives outside the model.

  Loredana Moanga27 Jun 20267 mins read

• Claude Certified Architect (Foundations) Exam: A Study Guide and How I Passed

  How I passed the Claude Certified Architect (Foundations) exam: the official docs, community study guides, ProctorFree setup, and quick tips

  Loredana Moanga22 Jun 20266 mins read

• Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck

  AI speeds up writing code, but code is rarely the bottleneck. Why continuous delivery and flow come first, backed by DORA and METR data.

  Pini Reznik17 Jun 20267 mins read

• Why AI Adoption Is a Leadership Problem

  AI adoption programmes stall on people and leadership more than tools. What engineering leaders must do differently, lessons from Odevo.

  Pini Reznik10 Jun 20265 mins read

• AI Native DevCon London 2026: Our Recap

  re:cinq at AI Native DevCon London 2026. Panel talks, Odevo's AI Native transformation, a book signing, and what the booth talks revealed.

  re:cinq09 Jun 20266 mins read

• Good Ideas Should Not Need Good Marketing to Survive

  Good ideas need a writer and an audience. AI moves one of those constraints. What that means for publishing, platforms, and engineering teams.

  Pini Reznik02 Jun 20266 mins read

• AI Native DevCon: We're Sponsoring!

  re:cinq sponsors AI Native DevCon on June 1 at The Brewery in London. Odevo's transformation, a Pini Reznik book signing, demos, and a raffle.

  Yonatan Reznik26 May 20262 mins read

• EEEG: A Substance Test for Content in the AI Era

  AI-written content gets skipped on sight, but the same filter catches writers using AI to publish real substance. EEEG is the test we use at re:cinq.

  Pini Reznik18 May 20266 mins read

• I taught an AI my photography style on a $250 GPU

  How I trained a custom diffusion model on 100,000 photos with one Intel Arc B580 in nine days, for 21 euros of power, no cloud GPUs.

  Bogdan Szabo12 May 202610 mins read

• The Spec Is the Attack Surface: Prompt Injection and Drift in Agentic Coding Tools

  When an agent reads an issue, PR, or comment, it treats that text as instructions. That makes the spec the attack surface for injection.

  Michael Czechowski24 Apr 20267 mins read

• Why We Teach Agentic Coding Backwards

  Most agentic coding training leads with what the tools do well. We start with how they fail. Here's the reasoning, and what it produced.

  re:cinq21 Apr 20265 mins read

• re:cinq's New Brand

  re:cinq has a new brand identity. Here's why we changed it, what carried forward, and what it signals about where the company is headed.

  Yonatan Reznik20 Apr 20263 mins read

• Engineering Velocity Is Unlocked. Now What?

  Most AI adoption content ends when adoption works. The second-order disruptions to team structure, delivery, and capacity are the hard part.

  re:cinq17 Apr 20267 mins read

• AI-Generated Code in Production: Validation, Accountability, and What Still Needs to Be Built

  AI coding agents can fabricate variables and silently remove security checks. The capability is real, validation and governance lag behind.

  Michael Czechowski15 Apr 20267 mins read

• Why Your Engineers Are Resisting AI — And What To Do About It

  Engineering leaders diagnosing a stalled AI rollout usually point to the wrong thing. There are four forms of resistance, each needs a fix.

  re:cinq14 Apr 20267 mins read

• Wave: Bringing Determinism Back to AI-Assisted Development

  Wave uses deterministic YAML pipelines with contract-based handoffs so quality checks run every time, instead of hoping the model remembers.

  Michael Czechowski10 Apr 20265 mins read

• Simple Tools, Smarter Agents

  Why mirroring a REST API into MCP tools suffocates AI agents — and how switching to dynamic, lazy-loaded tools cut context usage by 98%.

  Bogdan Szabo09 Apr 20266 mins read

• AI Native Netherlands Hits Its Biggest Meetup Yet

  The 9th AI Native Netherlands packed Miro HQ Amsterdam with 187 attendees, with the community now past 1,000 members in under a year.

  Yonatan Reznik08 Apr 20263 mins read

• How We Moved 100 Developers to Agentic Coding in Six Weeks

  How re:cinq helped Odevo, a Swedish real estate software firm, move 100+ developers to agentic coding, and what made it work.

  re:cinq07 Apr 20267 mins read

• Lore: Shared Context Infrastructure for Claude Code

  We built Lore so Claude Code knows your org's conventions and remembers yesterday, without anyone maintaining a giant CLAUDE.md.

  Michael Mueller03 Apr 202610 mins read

• Agents, Correctness, and the Development Process That No Longer Fits: A London Roundtable on Enterprise AI

  London roundtable with eight senior practitioners on testing AI output, multi-agent orchestration failures, and the enterprise security gap.

  Pini Reznik02 Apr 20269 mins read

• Building a Privacy Gateway for German Lawyers

  How we built a self-hosted gateway that strips PII from legal text before it reaches cloud LLMs, keeping German lawyers GDPR-compliant.

  Michael Mueller31 Mar 2026

• Do You Still Need Software Developers?

  Notes from an AI Meetup talk in Utrecht on citizen developers, software factories, and two-week sprints when AI writes code in 20 minutes.

  Pini Reznik24 Mar 20267 mins read

• Measuring AI Agent Quality When You Can't Freeze the Data

  We built a side-by-side model comparison tool for the CFO agent before we had an evals pipeline, and what qualitative comparison taught us.

  Michael Czechowski22 Mar 20266 mins read

• What Building a CFO Agent Taught Us About Spec-Driven Development

  Building the re:cinq CFO agent with two engineers in parallel exposed spec workflow problems we had not anticipated, and what we changed.

  Michael Czechowski19 Mar 20265 mins read

• From Fear to Implementation: A Zurich Roundtable on Enterprise AI in 2026

  re:cinq's Zurich leaders roundtable on agent definitions, vibe coding, AI literacy, the SaaS moat question, and the future of the developer.

  Pini Reznik12 Mar 20266 mins read

• The Autocompact Cliff: Why Your 200K Context Window Is Lying to You

  Your 200K context window is not 200K of usable space. Here is what actually fills it, where the autocompact cliff sits, and how to stay below it.

  Michael Czechowski10 Mar 2026

• Building Software Factories: The Blueprint for AI-Native Delivery

  Enterprise AI pilots fail when they bolt agents onto human processes. Software factories replace those processes. Here is how to build one.

  Michael Mueller04 Mar 2026

• You Can't Transform What You Can't Read

  Your engineering org is a prompt now. The pattern cards give you the vocabulary to read it honestly before you try to rewrite it.

  Michael Mueller26 Feb 2026

• Running MiniMax M2.5 Locally with Claude Code

  A quick how-to guide for connecting Claude Code to your local MiniMax M2.5 inference server.

  Michael Mueller24 Feb 2026

• Running MiniMax M2.5 Locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark

  How I ran a 230B parameter open model on desktop hardware with NVIDIA DGX Spark, Unsloth quantization, and llama.cpp at cloud API speed.

  Michael Mueller19 Feb 2026

• Your Engineering Org Is a Prompt Now

  Why the AI-native shift isn't about giving developers better tools. It's about making most of your org chart irrelevant.

  Michael Mueller13 Feb 2026

• From the Prototype to Production: An Amsterdam Roundtable on AI in 2026

  re:cinq's Amsterdam leaders roundtable on agent definitions, citizen developers, organizational adoption, and the future of the developer.

  Pini Reznik05 Feb 20268 mins read

• The "Ralph Wiggum Method": Why I Built an Infinite Loop on Purpose

  A checklist-driven while(true) loop that uses an LLM to chew through documentation, refactors, and tech-debt tickets—reliably and repeatably.

  Bogdan Szabo02 Feb 202620 mins read

• Multi-Agent Orchestration: BMAD, Claude Flow, and Gas Town

  Three multi-agent frameworks compared. BMAD for planning, Claude Flow for parallel execution, Gas Town for git-backed persistence.

  Michael Mueller21 Jan 202620 mins read

• Meet Reachy Mini: Building an AI-Powered Conference Badge Reader

  How I built a fun conference booth experience combining an open-source robot, vision AI, and Python. Plus: exploring local LLMs as the next step.

  Michael Mueller19 Jan 202620 mins read

• AI Safety Tools Are Broken. Here's What Actually Works

  Why most AI safety approaches are fundamentally broken, and what I discovered testing IBM's Granite Guardian.

  Michael Mueller19 Sept 202520 mins read

• Don't Blame the AI: The Real Reason 95% of GenAI Pilots Are 'Failing'

  Why the headline about 95% of GenAI pilots 'failing' is misleading and what organizations should fix instead.

  Michael Mueller28 Aug 202520 mins read

• Building an AI Email Assistant with n8n and Gemini

  Build an AI email assistant that gathers context from your calendar, documents, and CRM to draft replies. Orchestrated with n8n and Gemini.

  Michael Mueller18 Jul 202520 mins read

• Building an Automated AI News Digest with n8n and Google Vertex AI

  Build an automated workflow that gathers AI news from many sources, then uses LLMs to score articles and deliver a curated daily digest to your team.

  Michael Mueller26 Jun 202520 mins read

• Slack-to-Atlassian AI Chatbot with n8n and MCP

  Build a production-grade Slack chatbot that queries Jira and Confluence using n8n, MCP, and Kubernetes.

  Michael Mueller17 Jun 202520 mins read

• What is AI Native and why should I care?

  Learn to navigate the Cloud Native to AI Native transition. Avoid common mistakes and build the foundation for intelligent production systems.

  Michael Mueller26 May 202520 mins read

• Agents in Dialogue Part 1: MCP for AI Tool Access

  Part 1 of 3: how the Model Context Protocol standardises the way AI agents reach external tools and data, instead of each integration being bespoke.

  Michael Mueller06 May 202520 mins read

• Agents in Dialogue Part 2: Agent Communication Protocols

  Part 2 of 3: how Agent Communication Protocols let agents talk to each other directly, and where they sit alongside MCP in a multi-agent system.

  Michael Mueller06 May 202520 mins read

• Agents in Dialogue Part 3: Google's A2A Protocol

  Part 3 of 3: How Google's Agent2Agent protocol lets AI agents discover and collaborate with each other.

  Michael Mueller06 May 202520 mins read

• Designing and Managing Modern Hybrid Cloud Ecosystems

  Simplify multi-cloud management with a unified developer portal that standardizes deployments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises infrastructure.

  Brian Seguin18 Mar 202520 mins read

• Solve Your Toughest AI & Kubernetes Challenges Join Us at KubeCon!

  Join us at KubeCon for expert insights on AI and Kubernetes. Align goals, engage with experts, and turn napkin concepts into actionable plans.

  Brian Seguin12 Mar 202520 mins read

• GPU Acceleration for AI: Building Robust Platforms with AI Engineering

  Discover how AI Engineering and platform principles solve GPU utilization challenges for scalable and efficient AI development.

  Michael Mueller05 Mar 202520 mins read

• Leverage, Optimize, Own: A Practical AI Native Strategy

  A comprehensive guide to scaling AI effectively while focusing on high-value business logic and model development.

  Brian Seguin24 Feb 202520 mins read

• Llama and DeepSeek with LibreChat for Conversational AI

  Step-by-step guide: Deploy Llama and DeepSeek LLMs using SGLang on DataCrunch, and integrate with LibreChat for seamless conversations.

  Michael Mueller19 Feb 202520 mins read

• Driving IT Accountability and AI Efficiency

  Strategic approaches to IT accountability: Aligning cost optimization, resource efficiency and sustainability for better business outcomes.

  Brian Seguin13 Feb 202520 mins read

• Overcoming Key Kubernetes Onboarding Challenges

  As enterprises embrace cloud environments, they face onboarding challenges from network configuration to operational alignment and baseline metrics.

  Brian Seguin05 Feb 202520 mins read

• Accelerating AI Initiatives with Purpose

  Learn how to address common pitfalls in AI strategies and build scalable, ethical, and impactful AI systems that drive real business value

  Brian Seguin28 Jan 202520 mins read

• The Great VMware Exodus: Your Guide to a Broadcom-Free Future

  Navigate your VMware migration successfully: Expert strategies, tools, and best practices for a smooth transition to cloud-native.

  Michael Mueller28 Jan 202520 mins read

• Tanzu Transformations: Escaping Licensing Extortion

  Discover how to foster collaboration and break free from vendor lock-in during your Tanzu migrations, preventing costly licensing extortion.

  Brian Seguin22 Jan 202520 mins read

• The Rise of Agentic AI: A Deep Dive

  Explore how agentic AI and autonomous systems are reshaping software development, enabling new levels of automation and innovation.

  Michael Mueller15 Dec 202420 mins read

• Startup life – Our first year

  Our first year: Navigating the normal ups and downs, lessons learned, and what's ahead for our startup journey.

  Michael Mueller10 Dec 202420 mins read

• Maximizing ROI in Platform Engineering

  Maximize ROI in platform engineering by treating platforms as products. Discover strategies to enhance developer experience and boost returns.

  Michael Mueller03 Dec 202420 mins read

• AI Platform Engineering Reference Architecture

  Learn how to build a comprehensive AI platform architecture. From development to model serving, create scalable, production-ready AI systems.

  Michael Mueller01 Dec 202420 mins read

• Platform Engineering Reference Architecture

  Build scalable platforms with Platform Engineering Reference Architecture. Empower developers and accelerate software delivery beyond cloud native.

  Michael Mueller23 Oct 202420 mins read

• The Agile Trap: When Efficiency Trumps Flexibility in the Cloud

  Learn how using mature platforms for routine tasks can free development teams to innovate and build groundbreaking solutions.

  Pini Reznik21 Oct 202420 mins read

• The Evolving Landscape of Large Language Model (LLM) Architectures

  The evolving landscape of Large Language Model architectures and how they are revolutionizing natural language processing tasks.

  Michael Mueller03 Oct 202420 mins read

• What are Large Language Models and Key Terminologies

  Learn about Large Language Models (LLMs), the Transformer architecture, tokenization, embeddings, and their impact on natural language processing.

  Michael Mueller03 Oct 202420 mins read

• Want to Innovate? Let Someone Else Handle the Boring Work.

  Innovation and efficiency are not a trade-off. Splitting work between dev and platform teams lets engineers focus on the new and offload the routine.

  Pini Reznik30 Sept 202420 mins read

• Reaching Cloud Native Maturity: From Adoption to Mastery

  Key strategies for evolving from a cloud native platform to platform engineering, ensuring long-term scalability and robustness.

  Michael Mueller24 Sept 202420 mins read

• AI Engineering, Platform Engineering for AI

  Discover how AI Engineering adapts Platform Engineering principles to meet AI challenges, making AI development scalable, efficient, and resilient.

  Michael Mueller23 Sept 202420 mins read

• Stuck in the Middle? Reach Operational Excellence with Cloud Native

  Achieve operational excellence with Cloud Native. Navigate your move from Waterfall to AI-driven systems for stronger innovation and efficiency.

  Pini Reznik23 Sept 202420 mins read

• Platform Engineering: Enhancing Cloud-Native and AI Capabilities

  Why a dedicated platform team is vital for GenAI. It enables scalable infrastructure, ensures compliance, and empowers developers.

  Michael Mueller17 Sept 202420 mins read

• Platform Engineering in AI Native and Cloud Native

  Explore how platform engineering leverages cloud-native tech and AI to drive innovation, reduce costs, and enhance product and service delivery.

  Michael Mueller11 Sept 202420 mins read

• The Power of Cloud Native: A Beginner's Guide

  Discover the benefits of cloud native technology revolutionizing software development—changing how we build, deploy, and operate applications.

  Michael Mueller10 Sept 202420 mins read

• From Adoption to Mastery: Reaching Cloud Native Maturity

  Cloud Native transformation from Agile and breaking monoliths to operational excellence with platforms, Continuous Delivery, and Lean methods.

  Pini Reznik06 Sept 202420 mins read

• Scaleway k8s with google OIDC provider

  A quick guide to set up Scaleway Kubernetes with Google OIDC using Terraform. Securely manage your k8s cluster authentication.

  Gabi Beyer22 Jul 202420 mins read

• Lean Software Development: Reducing Agile's Environmental Impact

  Could a small consumer price increase drive the massive investment needed to transition industries to low-carbon production methods?

  Pini Reznik08 Jul 202420 mins read

• Startup life – Our first six month

  Our startup's first six months: helping businesses reduce IT-related carbon emissions with innovative, sustainable solutions.

  Michael Mueller07 May 202420 mins read

• Just 2% More? Could Climate Change Be That Easy?

  A 2% price rise on end products could fund the shift to low-carbon steel. So why isn't it happening? The catch-22 stalling industrial decarbonisation.

  Pini Reznik03 Mar 202420 mins read

• Calculating Cloud VM CPU Carbon Emissions

  Learn methodologies for calculating CPU carbon emissions in AWS EC2 instances. Practical guide for measuring cloud computing's environmental impact.

  Gabi Beyer28 Feb 202420 mins read

• Greening your K8s Workloads

  Optimize your Kubernetes clusters for energy efficiency. Learn to green your K8s workloads with HPA and Cluster Autoscaler strategies.

  Michael Mueller26 Feb 202420 mins read

• The Hidden Cost of IT Emissions: Why Companies Must Act Now

  Businesses must move past greenwashing and prioritise measurable IT emissions cuts to prepare for stricter regulations and a sustainable future.

  Pini Reznik23 Feb 202420 mins read

• Green Data Centres: Data at Scale, Impact at Zero?

  Discover sustainability practices for green data centres. Learn how to scale data operations with minimal environmental impact.

  Brendan Kamp20 Feb 202420 mins read

• Sustainability Reporting: Effective Change or Mere Formality?

  Manual carbon accounting is a climate action roadblock – automation is the key to better data and faster carbon reductions.

  Pini Reznik20 Feb 202420 mins read

• Bridging The Gap - Bringing Sustainability to SRE

  Learn how to integrate sustainability metrics into SRE practices. Guide for adding carbon-aware SLOs to site reliability engineering.

  Michael Mueller29 Jan 202420 mins read

• Follow the Sun: Greening the IT Landscape, One Sunrise at a Time

  Discover the 'Follow the Sun' strategy for greener IT. Learn to optimize workloads based on carbon intensity for sustainable computing.

  Brendan Kamp29 Jan 202420 mins read

• No More Greenwashing? 4 Things to Consider If You Work with Software.

  Stop greenwashing in software. Discover 4 key considerations to ensure your sustainability claims are authentic and compliant.

  Brendan Kamp19 Jan 202420 mins read

• Beyond DevOps and Delivery: Embracing Sustainability in IT

  Explore how DevOps evolves beyond delivery to embrace sustainability. Learn key strategies for building eco-conscious development practices.

  Michael Mueller15 Jan 202420 mins read

• Energy Proportionality and the Promise of Greener Systems

  Explore how energy proportionality affects server efficiency and sustainability. Learn to optimize cloud resources for greener computing systems.

  Brendan Kamp11 Jan 202420 mins read

• McKinsey 2023 Report: Integrating Sustainability in Business Strategy

  Discover how to integrate sustainability into your business strategy with McKinsey's 2023 insights. Boost your organization's ESG performance.

  Michael Mueller21 Dec 202320 mins read

• A Christmas Tree Carbon Story

  Discover the carbon footprint of Christmas trees and make eco-conscious holiday choices. Learn sustainable tips for a greener festive season.

  Brendan Kamp19 Dec 202320 mins read

• Beyond the Code: Carbon Impact of Large Language Models (LLMs)

  Discover the carbon impact of Large Language Models (LLMs). Learn how to measure and reduce the environmental costs of AI development.

  Brendan Kamp18 Dec 202320 mins read

• Pathfinder Framework: Streamlining ESG Scope 3 Emission Tracking

  The Pathfinder framework for tracking ESG Scope 3 emissions. Measure and manage your organization's indirect greenhouse gas footprint.

  Sebastian Cogno06 Dec 202320 mins read

• `Perf`-icient Measuring of Laptop Energy Consumption and CO2e

  How to measure and optimise your application's energy consumption with Linux perf tools. A practical guide for sustainability engineers.

  Gabi Beyer05 Dec 202320 mins read

• Startup life – Our first month

  Our startup's first month: helping businesses reduce IT-related carbon emissions with innovative, sustainable solutions.

  Michael Mueller27 Nov 202320 mins read

• Green Metrics: Enhancing Code Efficiency with Sorting Algorithms

  Discover how to measure and improve sorting algorithms' energy efficiency using Green Metrics. A practical guide to sustainable software development.

  Brendan Kamp24 Nov 202320 mins read

• Embodied Carbon in IT: Impact and Management Strategies

  Discover the hidden gaps in sustainable software development focusing on embodied carbon. Join the conversation to make technology truly eco-friendly.

  Brendan Kamp23 Nov 202320 mins read

• Node Sizing: Key to Energy-Efficient Computing

  Discover the importance of node sizing for energy-efficient computing. Optimize resources to enhance sustainability in your software systems.

  Brendan Kamp13 Nov 202320 mins read

• Optimizing Code Efficiency: Sustainability & Big O Notation

  Optimize code efficiency with Big O notation and sustainability. Learn to reduce resource footprints and create eco-friendly software systems.

  Brendan Kamp19 Oct 202320 mins read