Jonas Drieghe

Jonas Drieghe

Belgium 🇧🇪
15 posts
Technical debt lost its excuse

Technical debt lost its excuse

Technical debt used to justify meetings, trade-offs, and dedicated sprints. AI has changed that. Cleanup is now fast, cheap, and continuous. Teams that stop debating and start fixing unlock faster delivery and better outcomes.

The AI Agile Manifesto

The AI Agile Manifesto

Agile was supposed to free us from bureaucracy. Many teams just rebuilt it with better branding. Now, AI-driven development is forcing the uncomfortable question: Were we ever truly agile, or just managing slow feedback loops?

Stop obsessing over the perfect prompt

Stop obsessing over the perfect prompt

LLMs are built for conversation, not incantations. The value isn't in your opening message, it's in the back-and-forth: clarifying, correcting, refining. Iteration is cheap. The conversation is the work.

Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

Why defining a product vision is crucial in ensuring you are building the right things.

A company should have a vision, but a product should also have one. A product vision may sound like something large corporates work on. It may sound like a waste of time. However, a good product vision helps your team make the right choices while building your product.

Pulse: Episode 11 – On technical debt with Jonas Drieghe

Pulse: Episode 11 – On technical debt with Jonas Drieghe

Listen to this new Pulse podcast episode on technical debt where Jonas and Andreas discuss managed vs unmanaged debt, legacy code, code rot and give some tips on how to work with technical debt in any given circumstances.

Why retrospectives are essential

Why retrospectives are essential

Teams of all experience levels can improve their way of working, but only if they take a moment to retrospect.

Why is it good to deploy frequently

Why is it good to deploy frequently

Do you deploy every day? Your team probably should. Here's why.

​​Most common challenges faced by startups in 2024

​​Most common challenges faced by startups in 2024

It’s pretty evident that a startup in 2024 faces unique challenges that just haven’t existed in other years. Every entrepreneur knows that they will encounter difficult circumstances, clients, and people. It takes determination to scale a startup. We've seen this after auditing over 100 startups throughout...

Small commits: ask me why

Small commits: ask me why

Every time I work on code with someone I haven’t worked with before, I end up having the same conversation. It usually starts when I push my first pull request and they see something like +20/-40 in a single file using 11 commits. When I tell people that...

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