In-depth analyses and clear explanations that explore important AI topics in both depth and breadth. The articles provide the necessary background, place technical developments in their historical and social context, and examine benefits, limitations, costs, security and possible long-term consequences.
What the term really means, how the architecture works and why “build or buy” is the wrong question. A typical case: Miriam from purchasing asks her new company assistant which per diem rates apply to business trips to the Czech Republic. The answer is correct, complete with a source reference. Except that it does not
What Coral, Hailo, Axelera and the NPU in Your Processor Can Do Ellen notices the problem first by the sound. The small server under her desk, which is only supposed to manage files and record four surveillance cameras, has been running with a high-revving fan for weeks. She checks: utilization is constantly at ninety percent
What a Language Model at Home Demands in Terms of Computer, Memory and Patience It is a Sunday evening in February, and Jonas is sitting in front of a file selection dialog. On the desk in front of him lies his father’s folder. Doctors’ letters, findings, a four-page medication plan, plus correspondence with the health
Two self-hosted AI assistants compared: features, smart home, cost, security, and digital self-determination Let’s imagine Jonas. It’s a Tuesday evening in March, it’s drizzling outside, and Jonas is sitting on his bike at a red light. His hands are cold, his head is full, and suddenly there’s this one thought: the garage door. Did he
It is a Sunday afternoon in July, and Felix is sitting in front of a grey box that hums softly beside his router in the living-room cupboard. The box is a NAS (Network Attached Storage, a small always-on storage server for the home), and on it sit three terabytes of his professional life. Proposals, contracts,
A Friday Evening, an Automation, and a Small Deception It’s just past ten, the kids are asleep, the dishes are still in the sink, and Miriam really has no energy left for technology. Yet she sits on the sofa with her laptop, because she’s been annoyed by a small thing for weeks: when she walks
It is just past midnight, and Marlene can’t stop staring at her screen. She’s a copywriter — freelance, for twelve years — and she has just done something she would have considered impossible a year ago: she threw a vague idea at a machine, “write me an opening about the history of the Viennese coffeehouse
An Introduction to RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Why Our Data Needs a Memory and How AI Learns to Browse It It’s 10:14 PM, and Felix gives up. For four hours he has been searching for a presentation he is fairly certain he gave three years ago. Tomorrow a client wants to know what was discussed back
Obsidian as a Second Brain with OpenClaw or Claude A Message from the Train It’s 7:42 PM when Mark is waiting for his train at Mannheim Central Station. Two hours of workshop still sit heavy in his bones, his head still buzzing with slides and flip charts and right in that moment, somewhere between the
Lena’s Fourteen Tabs It’s a Tuesday morning in spring, and Lena is staring at an email from Anthropic. Subject: “Your usage limit has been reached.” €847 in 72 hours. Lena, 34, runs a small content agency in Zurich. Three employees, a dozen clients, and for the past few months, an experiment: AI agents for routine