Yannick
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Marketing manager
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Making sure the people are happy, things look pretty and products reach a greater audience, is why this people & marketing manager sets his alarm clock every day.

When Yannick is not busy trying to grasp exactly what clients want and how users actually use an application, he's probably globetrotting. And writing nice articles about the world, for his travel blog.

What is your biggest dream?
To always dare to make decisions to do stuff that I really want to do, rather than hiding behind excuses.

Choose between a circle, a triangle and a square and tell us why!
Circle… ball. Triangle… tree. Square… bed. Just top-of-my-head associations, but they help me to make choices. However, I'm not sure if I like ball or tree more. I'll go for tree. Nature needs some love. Triangles!

About Yannick

Base: Leuven (BE)
Studies: Graphic Design, Sint-Lukas Antwerp
Passions: football, travelling, photography

Expertises

Anything Adobe
Wordpress
Job interviews
Recruiting
Organising
Writing
Content management

Articles by Yannick

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I'm using my engineering colleagues as my personal agents

A couple of months ago, I was copy-pasting prompts into ChatGPT. Now I'm shipping features, running tests, managing branches, and keeping documentation alive, with a team of agents doing the heavy lifting. All by myself.

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Why AI makes engineering teams smaller, but not simpler

AI is changing what small teams can ship, boilerplate gone, prototypes faster, experimentation cheaper. But lower costs of building don't mean lower costs of building the wrong thing. It just means you can do it faster.

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The hidden cost of multiple repositories

Go for one codebase or multiple repositories? A question multiple CTOs and technical founders have asked. It can be a surprisingly expensive decision nobody warns you about.

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The CTO's guide to AI adoption strategy

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A guide to vibe coding vs AI-assisted development

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How to introduce AI coding agents into your engineering team

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AI code review tools: what works, what doesn't, and how to set it up

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Your startup does not need more engineers, it needs fewer mistakes

Why freedom beats control: building a proper remote culture

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Legacy vs technical debt: how investors can spot hidden risks in software products

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Your next hire will use AI in their technical test. Obviously.

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Technical due diligence is broken: going beyond the checklist

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AI writes bad code, but what if that’s the good news?

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The enshittification of the internet: are you building value or friction?

5 red flags for VCs when planning to invest in Seed or Series A companies

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Making an impact by combining our services

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Why involving engineers in product meetings saves time and money

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Should we really ship fast and break things?

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Why engineers need a voice in the roadmap

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Partner
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CTO in Residence
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Alexandros

Software engineer
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Software engineer
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