Andreas
Creten

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CEO & Founding Partner
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Co-founder and honorary member of the positive ADHD movement. He codes, takes decisions, arranges deals and processes his emails faster than a lightning bolt

He seems to have been granted more than 24 hours in one day, but nobody knows just who he bribed for that. If he keeps on doing all those nice things for madewithlove, nobody will be complaining.

If you could go back in history, what event would you love to experience?
Not sure, maybe the first computer to computer communications.

Any favourite quotes?
Work hard, stay positive and get up early. It's the best part of the day. (George Allen, Sr.)

About Andreas

Base: Leuven (BE)
Studies: Informatics, PXL Hasselt & management, VUB Brussel
Passions: skiing, sailing, woodworking, pizza making

Expertises

PHP
Stakeholder management
Wordpress
Leadership
Product management

Articles by Andreas

How AI is quietly killing open source

madewithlove

Tooling

LLMs generate code on demand, but they do not replace maintainers, communities, or years of shared learning. This piece explores how AI-assisted coding risks fragmenting logic, increasing technical debt, and slowly eroding the open source ecosystem.

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Navigating Outages: lessons from recent cloud failures

Podcast

Ideas and insights

Tooling

Outages can strike unexpectedly, impacting businesses and users alike. In this episode of the SaaS Show, hosts Andreas and Sjimi delve into the recent outages experienced by major cloud providers like Amazon and Cloudflare.

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The End of “AI-powered”

madewithlove

Ideas and insights

Of course your product is AI-based. There is no need mention this anymore. Tech loves a fashionable label. Web 2.0 had its moment, then mobile, then the cloud. Do not tell me your product uses AI. Tell me what your product can do that was impossible before AI existed.

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The stainless steel lesson: why boring technology outlasts shiny frameworks

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Andreas
Creten

About Andreas

Expertises

Articles by Andreas

How AI is quietly killing open source

Navigating Outages: lessons from recent cloud failures

The End of “AI-powered”

The stainless steel lesson: why boring technology outlasts shiny frameworks

AI isn't optional anymore: Why developers without AI are falling behind

You can't delegate accountability: what the NIS2 directive means for boards

What would it cost to rebuild this software from scratch?

Why front-end rewrites are more common than refactors

🌶️ Why Native PHP shouldn’t exist

Vibe coding and the junior developer dilemma

The hidden cost of API migrations

Startups don't need corporate culture

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