Ai-Engineering

DynamicsMinds 2026 - Starfleet and moving from SaaS to OaaS

Notes from DynamicsMinds 2026. A word on the setting: DynamicsMinds is a community-driven conference for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 & Power Platform world — May 25–27 in Portorož on the Slovenian coast. What makes it special is the crowd: not just technical people, but a lot of actual users, all in one beautiful Mediterranean location . And it knows how to celebrate — one evening spills into a party right on the hotel’s beach, well into the night. That mix is exactly what makes it worth the trip.

Operations as Code — SWAMP

At the Agentic Conf 2026 in Hamburg, I attended Paul Stack ’s talk “Operations follows Development” and immediately knew I had to try out SWAMP .

Operations follows Development follows Marketing

Last week, Johann-Peter Hartmann reported on AI Dark Factory Patterns — a post I warmly recommend, including brutally honest anti-patterns. This is the current status quo.

Many talk about AI Engineering – few show how.

Sunday at the Agentic Conf 2026 in Hamburg – and a feeling I hadn’t had in a long time. No vendor stage, no business fluff. Just people talking about things that genuinely matter to them. Like the “old” unconferences (Judith Andresen). That kind of energy has become rare. We are all pioneers. Nobody has the handbook – we are writing it together, right now. A few insights that ran through the whole day: