Kevin Thiels · CTO · Aperta
Where AI meets engineering leadership.
Writing about AI, software delivery, delegation, and engineering culture.
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View all →The Day I Stopped Checking Every Output
There's a version of managing systems that looks like trust but is really just supervision. Here's what the real shift felt like.
Read article →The Assumption I Stopped Checking
Every system you build rests on something you decided once and never revisited. That thing is quietly running everything.
Read article →What I Can't Yet Delegate
The things that keep landing back on my desk aren't the most complex ones. They're the ones I haven't thought through clearly enough to explain.
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- Jun 1, 2026 The Day I Stopped Checking Every Output
- Jun 1, 2026 The Assumption I Stopped Checking
- May 25, 2026 What I Can't Yet Delegate
- May 25, 2026 What Competence Attracts
- May 18, 2026 The Weight of Half-Decisions
- May 11, 2026 The Advice That Kept Me Stuck
- May 4, 2026 What I Stopped Noticing
- Apr 28, 2026 What Writing Weekly Did to My Thinking
- Apr 9, 2026 How AI Is Changing DevOps, From Scripts to Autonomous Delivery
- Apr 6, 2026 The Mode-Switch Tax
- Mar 27, 2026 The Posts I Almost Didn't Publish
- Mar 21, 2026 How AI Agents Are Replacing Dev Team Overhead in 2026
- Mar 19, 2026 Why Your AI Assistant Fails (It's Not the Model)
- Mar 10, 2026 The Loneliness of Your Own Standards
- Mar 4, 2026 The Week I Realized Delegation Needs a Deadline
- Feb 20, 2026 Why Your Delivery Feels Slow (And Why That's Not Always a Problem)
- Feb 16, 2026 Delegation, Not Conversation: My Life with a Proactive AI Partner
- Jan 29, 2026 Spec drift is the hidden tax on software delivery
- Nov 23, 2025 Agentic AI in Enterprise: Understanding the Shift from Tools to Autonomous Systems
- Feb 12, 2024 Unveiling the Cloud: Understanding Cloud Solutions and Their Transformative Role
- Oct 28, 2023 Sustainable IT Architecture in a Modern Landscape
- Jan 5, 2022 Understanding the importance of MBTI
- Jun 22, 2021 Iterating during summer
- Aug 7, 2020 Working in Corona times
- Mar 19, 2019 Treasure hunters
- Feb 11, 2019 Being the Product Owner is a full time job
- Mar 5, 2018 Creating a safe space
- Nov 17, 2017 Emotional retrospecting
- Oct 12, 2017 Playing games
- Sep 3, 2017 Are we slowly killing Scrum?
- Aug 16, 2017 The team's superhero
- Aug 10, 2017 Welcome to Saint-Tropez
- Jul 31, 2017 When you can call your workplace a second home
- Jul 26, 2017 Live stream Drupal 8 AMA
- Jul 14, 2017 Friday oh friday
- Jul 4, 2017 Star Wars retrospective!
- Jul 3, 2017 Brainstorming session Dazzle
- Jul 3, 2017 Welcome to the blog