Artificial Intelligence

Articles about Artificial Intelligence by Sebastian Bergmann

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In a dark room, a hand holds a small ultraviolet torch over a printed form titled CREDIT NOTE. Where the beam falls on one of its fields, a handwritten line appears that the form does not show in ordinary light: I am invisible. More sheets with printed charts lie around it on the desk, barely visible in the blue light.

8 October 2026

Your tool has a new reader

Every PHP tool that prints to a terminal now has two readers, and most of us have only been writing for one of them.

A person's hands at a workbench: one holds a brass pipe fitting, the other writes on a clipboard with a red pencil, and more fittings stand on the table. A symbol of verification: to know whether a part is right, someone has to examine it and write down what they observed.

23 September 2026

When the diff is free

Symfony Language Tools no longer accepts pull requests, and most Laravel packages no longer accept issues. Both decisions rest on the same premise: the diff has become cheap. What remains scarce is an understanding of the problem, and the contribution that carries it best is a failing test.

A person's hands tying a bowline knot in a sailing rope, the water below. A symbol of verification: trust in a knot is not inherited from whoever tied it, it is earned by tying and checking it yourself.

16 September 2026

Confidence is not transferable

After my experiment with AI-generated code, I came across three observations: organisational, individual, and generational. Together they point to an uncomfortable conclusion, and to the skill that will matter most in the AI era.

This photograph captures a professional workspace set up outdoors against a backdrop of a natural garden. The scene showcases an organised desk arrangement on a light wooden surface, bathed in daylight.

1 April 2026

Beyond Best Practices

Testing, code reviews and documentation are all essential prerequisites that constrain the autonomy of AI, thereby safeguarding human agency in software development.

A road disappearing into thick fog. A symbol of how AI-generated code may look readable and plausible to us, but we cannot tell whether it will lead us to the right destination.

18 March 2026

Faster than understanding

An AI coding agent implemented a complex software metric in 15 minutes. I have now spent hours trying to figure out whether the implementation is correct. Is this really a productivity boost?

This image shows a modern graphic collage depicting stylised hands holding or passing several light bulbs. The light bulbs symbolise ideas and innovations, with their yellow colour immediately catching the eye and conveying a positive, creative impression.

29 October 2025

Modern PHP Development

Modern PHP development combines proven principles with the latest tools. It brings together documentation, quality, automation, and AI.

The image shows the interior of a vehicle with a futuristic-looking control panel consisting of several orange and green seven-segment displays arranged one above the other, showing the date and time, flanked by metal plates, switches, cables and connectors, creating the impression of a time travel console.

7 October 2025

From AmigaBASIC to AI

A personal journey from my first lines of BASIC on the Amiga to the question of how AI will shape the next generation of developers.

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