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.)

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About Andreas

  • Base: Leuven (BE)

  • Studies: Informatics, PXL Hasselt & management, VUB Brussel

  • Passions: skiing, sailing, woodworking, pizza making

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Expertises

  • PHP

  • Stakeholder management

  • Wordpress

  • Leadership

  • Product management

Articles by Andreas

AI didn't change the economics of software engineering

AI

Ideas

Team dynamics

AI made writing code faster, but the real economics of software engineering were never about typing code in the first place.

The unbundling of engineering value (Part 2)

AI

Ideas

Technical debt

AI won't make software engineers redundant. It will expose what engineering was always supposed to be about: understanding systems, not just writing code.

The unbundling of engineering value (Part 1)

AI

Ideas

Technical debt

Here's part one of a post I shared with our team on the radical change and evolution of our jobs. AI won't make software engineers redundant. It will expose what engineering was always supposed to be about: understanding systems, not just writing code.

Investor Insights #7 - Andreas’ new book: The Economics of Software Engineering

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?

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Geoffrey

Software engineer
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Brenden

CTO in residence
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Tim

COO
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