Monthly Recap - 2026-03 March

March was a month of wrapping up ongoing work and exploring new horizons. After a couple of months getting my feet wet with different AI productivity ideas, I was able to finish studying a book I picked up specifically about this topic, as well as presenting a hands-on session at an internal developer conference in my company. Here is a quick summary.

Achievements

InnerSource synergy with agentic AI presentation

This month I had the opportunity to present at an SAP's internal developer conference. It was my second time presenting at this event in a row. I talked about how the InnerSource philosophy and techniques can have a positive synergy with agentic AI software engineering. I think there is a lot of unexplored territory in terms of how we can engineer collaboration in a way that optimizes the value provided by AI and human agents. It was a great experience to share my thoughts and to connect with other developers within the company.

Finished studying Beyond Vibe Coding

I finished studying Beyond Vibe Coding, a book by Addy Osmani about the evolution of software development with generative AI. It goes way beyond the superficial "AI writes code for you" narrative and dives into practical strategies for integrating LLMs into the development workflow in a sustainable and effective way. It covers topics such as prompt engineering patterns, context management, and how to structure projects to leverage AI without losing control of the codebase. While I think it suffers a bit from the pragmatics of this format for the current context (AI tools evolve way too fast for a book cycle - books shine in consolidating the best practices about things that have been around for a while, but for AI it seems that articles are able to cope with the pace of change better), I found it to be a very practical read and will definitely apply some of its insights going forward.

Monthly Recap - 2026-02 February

February was a month for exploration. With the increasing work load at my day job, I used most of my free time to learn and try out a few new things. As expected, all of them related to AI. Here is a quick summary.

Achievements

Productivity tools

While I continue to use JenAI on a daily basis, it remains (by design) a very limited tool. In order to leverage the benefits of AI more widely, I started developing a few more personal productivity tools. The gaps from JenAI that these cover are a simplified persistence model, more intuitive UI and more sophisticated context management. I have also created a few automations to run AI tasks on schedule. As of now, I have no plans to make either of these open source, as they are more exploratory and specific to my work flow.

ComfyUI

Another area of AI that I had not touched for a long while is image generation. While I played around with Stable Diffusion in its early days, and covered image generation on Chargen, it is not something I do regularly. In February I took some time to update myself on newer tools for this, and did a few lessons about ComfyUI. It seemed to me to do a better job of offering enhanced capabilities around the raw image generation models than the other tools I know about, and I look forward to work more with it.

Finished Rich Dad Poor Dad

On a more personal level, I finished studying Rich Dad Poor Dad as part of my personal studies habit. This took longer that I expected, as I started the book roughly in the middle of 2025, but had to interrupt the studies several times along the way. As someone who had never invested before, I really enjoyed the book and found it to be an excellent introduction to the topic.