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Vibe Engineering: A chocolate line on a Saturday
Vibe engineering put to the test: an AI agent plans a chocolate bar line in two hours instead of two months. Numbers, mistakes, consequences for engineers.
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Curious engineer, passionate speaker, entrepreneur.
I lead smart manufacturing in pharma, chair the VDI Bezirksverband Schwarzwald as a volunteer and have founded two companies. This site is where I think out loud about technology, digital business models and how to actually ship them.
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