Patrick Kalkman

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The AI Pit Crew: Autonomous Agents Running Our Website

We gave them agency. They gave us our weekends back.

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How My Son and I Built a Racing Empire with 4847 Words (Using AI)

The 4847 word specification that built MySimRig.nl in an afternoon It started on one of those Dutch afternoons that can’t decide between drizzle and despair. The sky sagged low, the air smelled faintly of rubber and burnt coffee, and my office looked like a garage that had lost

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The Day I Killed the OK-Gnome and Nearly Caused a Harbor Riot

Modal dialogs, angry dockworkers, and why process names lie

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Introducing Nibble: The AI That Improves Your Code One Bite at a Time

While you sleep, your code gets (slightly) better

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The Click That Crashed a Hospital

I flicked the switch, the wards went dark, here’s why your “just reboot it” reflex can kill

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Skip Intro at Scale: How I Built Netflix’s Missing Feature for $0.30 per Movie

Combining GPT-4o mini and Gemini Pro 2.5 to detect intros 20× cheaper than Amazon Rekognition

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Beyond Brittle: Building Resilient UI Testing

How we combined Playwright, OmniParser, and the OpenAI Agents SDK to end our maintenance nightmares

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NIS2: What Every Developer and Tech Lead Needs To Know Right Now

Your roadmap through the NIS2 regulatory landscape

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EU AI Act: Builders and Deployers, Both on the Hook

What every developer, ML engineer, and tech lead needs to know right now

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AI‑Ready Software Architecture: Ship Faster by Design

Proven patterns that keep AI coding and you shipping

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EnCodex: How AI is Revolutionizing Video Streaming Quality

How Google Gemini Pro 2.5 makes smart video optimization simple and accessible

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My Terminal AI Sidekick: Building Djin To Reclaim Coding Time

Building a terminal AI to manage Jira, time tracking, and tasks without context switching

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