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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 09/09/2026

I don't write code merely to produce software. I enjoy figuring things out. I love designing systems and making computers do crazy things. I want to take apart hard problems and come up with simple solutions. I believe AI can take away the boring parts. But it should never take away the fun. 😁

Two frames from the dig-site scene in Jurassic Park, where Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) reacts to a discussion about computers and the automation of his work as an archaeologist. In meme format. The first panel shows bystanders looking fascinated at a computer screen. The operator says, “A few more years of development, and we won't even have to code anymore.” The second frame shows Dr. Grant leaning against a pole with a concerned, sarcastic expression, saying, “Where's the fun in that?”

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 06/07/2026

The bottleneck in agentic coding was never the code. It is reviewing it. Agents ship faster than anyone can verify, and reviewers lose the context to catch real mistakes. Good architecture was always about drawing boundaries small enough for a human to hold in their head. That matters more now.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 22/06/2026

Speed is no longer the bottleneck for small teams. AI took care of that. Architecture is the bottleneck now. The decisions that are hardest to reverse are the ones that looked small when you made them.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 08/06/2026

Agents don't question your architecture. They execute it. Most codebases have never had structure explicit enough to hand off to another engineer, let alone an agent. That gap was always there. Now it's expensive.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 08/06/2026

I write a text by hand, with my usual tone and voice. Run it through ZeroGPT out of curiosity, 53% AI-generated. I, feeling some AI-shame, rewrite it. I check again. 75% AI-generated. Sigh. This, from someone who knows these things are just probability machines.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 06/06/2026

AI agents can write the code. They can't tell you if you're building the right thing. That judgment is the job now. It always was.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 03/06/2026

The PoC-to-production gap is where most AI architecture goes quiet. Getting something to work is easy now. Getting it to work reliably, cheaply, and consistently at scale is still the same hard problem it always was. The demo never includes the edge cases.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 28/05/2026

Siqqle v6.1.0 is out. It started as Popsql, a project I built years ago to make SQL composable in .NET. Now it's back, better, and mostly backward compatible. Fluent. Modern. Type-safe. Multi-dialect. Dapper-ready. nodsoftware.github.io/siqqle/

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Introduction - Siqqle

Siqqle — a .NET library for building SQL statements in code.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 03/05/2026

When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 29/04/2026

The era of "unlimited AI for $20/month" is over. GitHub Copilot adjusted its multipliers. Claude Code was momentarily pulled out of Pro plans. The bills are arriving. Running frontier models is expensive, someone was going to pay eventually. Those who'll feel it least know what they use and why.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 27/04/2026

Two things worry me about developers and AI. The ones on the sidelines, waiting for things to settle. They won't. And the ones moving so fast they've stopped understanding what they build. Neither ends well. The ones who'll thrive stay curious, keep sharp, and never stop owning what they ship.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 24/04/2026

I get the fear. I really do. Every time technology shifts this fast, something feels at stake. Jobs. Craft. Identity. But every abstraction we gained freed up space for harder, more interesting problems. AI is that shift. Faster, yes. Scarier, maybe. I'd rather meet it with curiosity than fear.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 23/04/2026

I've spent my whole career trying to do more with less friction. Shortcuts. Templates. Automation. Every abstraction we gained freed up space for what actually matters: understanding the problem, caring about the outcome. AI feels like that moment again. And I deeply believe that's a good thing.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 22/04/2026

Most software problems aren't technical problems. They're clarity problems that got handed to engineers too early. "Build it and we'll figure out the details later" is the most expensive sentence in software.

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NOD Software @nodsoftware.net · 22/04/2026

Hi Bluesky. 👋 I'm Wouter — software architect with 20+ years building products that ship and scale. NOD Software: technical advisory for founders and tech leads who need honest, experienced guidance — not another vendor with a slide deck. nodsoftware.net

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