Autonomous AI agents create more work than they remove.
The tools got better. The MCP setup got shinier. The prompts got holier. Somehow the human still ends up babysitting a Roomba with sudo.
Personal logs from Nicklas Schäfer: work, tech, politics, AI, life, and whatever else annoyed me into literacy.
Sharp notes from inside the machine: useful enough to keep, rude enough to remember, and allergic to the beige little costume everyone calls thought leadership.
/articles
Essays and rants show up here as logs: direct, opinionated, occasionally useful, and not wearing LinkedIn perfume.
The tools got better. The MCP setup got shinier. The prompts got holier. Somehow the human still ends up babysitting a Roomba with sudo.
The apps got nicer. The tools got better. But pure coding Claude, especially the old Opus magic, feels smoother, safer, and much more annoying.
/about
Nicklas Schäfer works around operations, quality management, automation, AI, leadership, and the strange social machinery that turns simple work into ritualized fog.
The writing here is sharp, personal, occasionally useful, and allergic to corporate perfume. Expect opinions with fingerprints on them: politics, work, tech, AI, life, and the many systems calmly insulting everyone involved.