Ideas in the cloudhttps://vjeko.com/enhttps://vjeko.com/2026/07/22/what-youre-actually-saying-when-you-say-ai-doesnt-work/https://vjeko.com/2026/07/22/what-youre-actually-saying-when-you-say-ai-doesnt-work/“AI doesn’t work” has never once been a fact about AI. It’s always been just a confession. About you. “I don’t know how to use it.”Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:50:40 GMTAgentic EngineeringAgentic EngineeringAIDisciplineEngineeringhttps://vjeko.com/2026/07/21/i-dont-trust-my-agents-either/https://vjeko.com/2026/07/21/i-dont-trust-my-agents-either/There is a moment in my workshops that I have learned to wait for. I am showing something on screen, agents doing their thing, and somewhere in the middle of…Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:19:44 GMTAgentic EngineeringAgentic EngineeringAIGWTQualitySix Sigmahttps://vjeko.com/2026/07/02/real-programmers-dont-use-pascal/https://vjeko.com/2026/07/02/real-programmers-dont-use-pascal/Programming is not a 20th century invention. Ideas behind what we call programming have existed since at least the 9th century. The very term “algorithm” comes…Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:51:13 GMTAgentic EngineeringAda LovelaceAgentic EngineeringAIal-KhwarizmiAssemblyBASICCCharles BabbageCOBOLEdsger DijkstraHerman HollerithJavaJohn BackusKathleen BoothPascalReal Programmersvon Neumannhttps://vjeko.com/2026/07/01/what-to-do-in-the-age-of-code-printing/https://vjeko.com/2026/07/01/what-to-do-in-the-age-of-code-printing/Over the past 5 months, I’ve delivered 8 workshops, 17 sessions, one podcast, and participated in more discussions about AI and its capabilities than I can…Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:13:14 GMTAgentic EngineeringAgentic EngineeringAISpec-Driven Developmenthttps://vjeko.com/2026/06/07/from-beep-to-empty-seat-the-six-levels-of-self-driving-code/https://vjeko.com/2026/06/07/from-beep-to-empty-seat-the-six-levels-of-self-driving-code/Back in 2016 I bought a new car, and one afternoon on the motorway it did something that made the hair on my arms stand up. I was driving home, traffic was…Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:37:01 GMTAgentic EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceAgentic EngineeringAIFeedback loopGitHub CopilotHondaJudgementMercedesSelf-driving carshttps://vjeko.com/2026/05/30/ubi-wont-save-us-and-the-nurse-will-tell-you-why/https://vjeko.com/2026/05/30/ubi-wont-save-us-and-the-nurse-will-tell-you-why/I have a friend who is a nurse. Not the TV kind, with good lighting and a romance subplot. The real kind. She does twelve-hour shifts, she lifts grown men who…Sat, 30 May 2026 10:14:19 GMTArtificial IntelligenceArtificial IntelligenceSam AltmanUBIhttps://vjeko.com/2026/05/28/the-lump-of-labour-fallacy-fallacy/https://vjeko.com/2026/05/28/the-lump-of-labour-fallacy-fallacy/Every time someone says the machines are coming for the jobs, there’s a guy in the back of the room who knows the term. Lump of labour fallacy. He’s read his…Thu, 28 May 2026 21:17:07 GMTArtificial IntelligenceAIDaniel SuskindFallacyKent BeckSingularityhttps://vjeko.com/2026/05/03/the-mcp-bridge-al-language-tools-for-every-agent/https://vjeko.com/2026/05/03/the-mcp-bridge-al-language-tools-for-every-agent/You picked Claude Code. Or Cursor. Or whatever agent actually fits how you work, because the agent you use matters more than the editor it lives in. You set it…Sun, 03 May 2026 06:46:22 GMTAgentic EngineeringALClaude CodeFeedback loopAgentic EngineeringClaude CodeFeedback loopGitHub CopilotMCPVibe Codinghttps://vjeko.com/2026/03/16/your-object-ids-have-no-excuse-now-ninja-comes-to-ci-cd/https://vjeko.com/2026/03/16/your-object-ids-have-no-excuse-now-ninja-comes-to-ci-cd/AL Object ID Ninja is now available as a GitHub Action and an Azure DevOps Pipeline Task. It scans your AL repository during CI/CD and fails the build if it…Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:04:52 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID NinjaAL-Go for GitHubAzure DevOpsCI/CDGitHubPipelinehttps://vjeko.com/2026/03/14/context-engineering-the-thing-almost-nobody-is-actually-talking-about/https://vjeko.com/2026/03/14/context-engineering-the-thing-almost-nobody-is-actually-talking-about/Today I want to talk about something that barely anyone is talking about. Context engineering. We hear about prompts constantly. We hear about the latest model…Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:10:40 GMTAgentic EngineeringAgentic EngineeringContextLLMhttps://vjeko.com/2026/03/09/al-object-id-ninja-3-2-1-a-lot-has-happened-in-four-days/https://vjeko.com/2026/03/09/al-object-id-ninja-3-2-1-a-lot-has-happened-in-four-days/I’ve been busy over weekend with completing a few work items that were in the cooking for a while. Some have been on my wish-list since day one, some have been…Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:22:24 GMTAL Object ID NinjaApp PoolsConsumption OverviewUser Roleshttps://vjeko.com/2026/03/05/al-object-id-ninja-an-apology-a-decision-and-a-month-on-the-house/https://vjeko.com/2026/03/05/al-object-id-ninja-an-apology-a-decision-and-a-month-on-the-house/I owe you an explanation. Not a corporate statement. Not a carefully worded legal notice. An actual explanation, from me to you, because you’ve trusted this…Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:55:38 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID Ninjaprivate back-endhttps://vjeko.com/2026/02/02/al-object-id-ninja-mcp-server-is-here/https://vjeko.com/2026/02/02/al-object-id-ninja-mcp-server-is-here/So you’ve jumped on the agentic coding train. You’re using Cursor, or Claude Code, or Windsurf, or whatever the cool kids are using this week. Your AI…Mon, 02 Feb 2026 06:35:06 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAgentic CodingAL Object ID NinjaMCPhttps://vjeko.com/2026/01/27/when-guids-collide-the-app-id-problem-nobody-expected/https://vjeko.com/2026/01/27/when-guids-collide-the-app-id-problem-nobody-expected/You know what’s supposed to be unique? Snowflakes. Fingerprints. And GUIDs. A GUID (Globally Unique Identifier) is mathematically designed to be so…Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:30:07 GMTBusiness CentralAL Object ID NinjaApp IDapp.jsonAppSourceCollisionGUIDhttps://vjeko.com/2026/01/07/object-ids-now-assignable-by-vs-code-agents-lm-tool-integration/https://vjeko.com/2026/01/07/object-ids-now-assignable-by-vs-code-agents-lm-tool-integration/I’ve just released Ninja 3.1.0, and it adds something I’ve wanted for a while: language-model tool-based object ID assignment. In practice, this means that…Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:38:27 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/12/15/ninja-v3-is-live-where-we-are-and-what-comes-next/https://vjeko.com/2025/12/15/ninja-v3-is-live-where-we-are-and-what-comes-next/This past weekend marked an important milestone for AL Object ID Ninja. Backend version 3 is now live, running in production on: So far, it’s been running…Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:54:04 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/12/12/important-announcement-for-teams-maintaining-private-al-object-id-ninja-backend-get-ready-for-v3/https://vjeko.com/2025/12/12/important-announcement-for-teams-maintaining-private-al-object-id-ninja-backend-get-ready-for-v3/This post is for teams running AL Object ID Ninja on their own backend. If you are using the hosted Ninja backend, you don’t need to do anything — the…Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:59:38 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/12/08/al-object-id-ninja-v3-0-platform-launching-on-december-15/https://vjeko.com/2025/12/08/al-object-id-ninja-v3-0-platform-launching-on-december-15/When I opened the early-bird sign-up page for AL Object ID Ninja, my goal was simple:to understand whether there was enough real interest in a fully supported,…Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:46:29 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/12/03/a-story-about-trust-why-one-team-moved-from-private-endpoints-to-the-hosted-ninja-backend/https://vjeko.com/2025/12/03/a-story-about-trust-why-one-team-moved-from-private-endpoints-to-the-hosted-ninja-backend/Every now and then a real story captures the essence of what a product is meant to do. This one did that for me. A few days ago, LS Retail, a long-time Ninja…Wed, 03 Dec 2025 09:21:56 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/11/19/al-object-id-ninja-self-hosting-vs-hassle-free-the-data-tells-a-curious-story/https://vjeko.com/2025/11/19/al-object-id-ninja-self-hosting-vs-hassle-free-the-data-tells-a-curious-story/Fun fact from the past three months of AL Object ID Ninja: Ninja has handed out object IDs to 9,365 apps.Out of those, 297 apps were configured to use private…Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:50:38 GMTAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/11/11/al-object-id-ninja-please-register-your-intent/https://vjeko.com/2025/11/11/al-object-id-ninja-please-register-your-intent/Over the past four years, AL Object ID Ninja has quietly kept thousands of teams out of conflict trouble. To plan the next chapter responsibly, I need a simple…Tue, 11 Nov 2025 09:02:32 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID NinjaObject ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2025/11/09/end-of-free-backend-for-al-object-id-ninja/https://vjeko.com/2025/11/09/end-of-free-backend-for-al-object-id-ninja/EDIT: Click here to let me know if you intend to stay with Ninja premium backend and lock in your lifetime 35% discount. I hoped I would never have to write…Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:46:00 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID NinjaObject ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2023/12/09/testing-in-isolation/https://vjeko.com/2023/12/09/testing-in-isolation/An AL developer gets fired from his job for writing inefficient tests. With his LinkedIn profile proudly showing off his extensive testing experience, a car…Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:46:43 GMTTestingDecouplingDependenciesDependency injectionDesigntestabilityTestingUnit testshttps://vjeko.com/2023/11/02/directions-emea-2023-demo-decoupling-base-app/https://vjeko.com/2023/11/02/directions-emea-2023-demo-decoupling-base-app/Here we go. As promised, I’ll start with the demo I delivered at my “Mythbusting code coverage” session at Directions EMEA 2023 in Lyon. Over the course of…Thu, 02 Nov 2023 16:16:45 GMTTestingDependency injectionInversion of controltestabilityTestingUnit testshttps://vjeko.com/2023/11/02/testing-testability-and-all-things-test/https://vjeko.com/2023/11/02/testing-testability-and-all-things-test/Okay. There has been a lot of “long time no see” intros to my posts on this blog in the past, but never this long. So – looooooong time no see, folks! We may…Thu, 02 Nov 2023 07:13:06 GMTUncategorizedtestabilityTestinghttps://vjeko.com/2022/09/14/al-pragma-explorer-a-new-al-extension/https://vjeko.com/2022/09/14/al-pragma-explorer-a-new-al-extension/There is a cool new extension out there for AL developers that you should really check out: AL Pragma Explorer. The extension is almost as amazing as the work…Wed, 14 Sep 2022 19:25:26 GMTUncategorizedhttps://vjeko.com/2022/05/06/al-object-id-ninja-logical-ranges-overview/https://vjeko.com/2022/05/06/al-object-id-ninja-logical-ranges-overview/Long time no see, eh? 😳 I won’t offer no excuses, but I have been plenty busy with things that you’ll benefit in some way or another, far more than you’d…Fri, 06 May 2022 12:48:57 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2021/10/04/al-object-id-ninja-scheduled-maintenance-announcement-october-9-at-1900-cet/https://vjeko.com/2021/10/04/al-object-id-ninja-scheduled-maintenance-announcement-october-9-at-1900-cet/For all of you using AL Object ID Ninja, please read this post. There will be scheduled maintenance of AL Object ID Ninja back end on October 9, 2021, at 19:00…Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:06:11 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID NinjaMaintenancehttps://vjeko.com/2021/10/01/important-announcement-for-al-object-id-ninja/https://vjeko.com/2021/10/01/important-announcement-for-al-object-id-ninja/If you are using AL Object ID Ninja already then you may want to read this post. If not, then first install AL Object ID Ninja, then read this post 😀 Since…Fri, 01 Oct 2021 06:24:57 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID Ninjahttps://vjeko.com/2021/09/15/al-object-id-ninja-v1-2-0-plus-some-azure-lessons-learned/https://vjeko.com/2021/09/15/al-object-id-ninja-v1-2-0-plus-some-azure-lessons-learned/First things first. Yesterday evening, I’ve released AL Object ID Ninja v1.2.0 and there is really nothing new that you’d care about, functionally speaking.…Wed, 15 Sep 2021 07:58:28 GMTAL Object ID NinjaAL Object ID NinjaAzure FunctionsAzure StorageGetBlobPropertiesPerformance