Christian Kohlberg Tech & AI leadership
Building is cheap now. Deciding is not.
Agentic coding is shaking software development awake: roles are changing, and products need protecting from feature creep. I own tech & AI at small and mid-sized companies — from the business case into the code.
- currently
- I drive AI value creation at LEA Partners. The focus: establishing agentic coding, and bringing agents into existing ERP software. And I build again myself, thanks to agentic coding — closer to the system than I was in the ten years before.
- before
- Corporate Business Development at Hubert Burda Media, responsible for a broad range of topics — among them building a data platform. Then, working for myself: putting the first stages of agentic AI to the test, day after day.
- writes about
- What I learn on the job. whole wiki ->
- contact
What has my attention right now.
building
Guardrails for agent-written code
The objection to agentic engineering is always quality. Both are open source, because the teams adopting this need to see the mechanism, not just the promise.
- backlot ->
- Environment broker: puts a running, seeded instance of your app in front of coding agents and humans, so they work against something real.
- handrail soon
- Hooks into Claude Code and Codex and opens gates as the code changes: write tests, run them, update the docs, lint, run architecture tests. Quality stops depending on good intentions.
studying
How to set a team up for agentic coding
What occupies me most right now: how the developer's role changes, and how the product owner's does. And do we still need testers — or has everyone suddenly been demoted to tester and promoted to developer at the same time?
- kunchenguid ->
- Shipping genuinely interesting work right now — treehouse and firstmate above all.
- adk.dev ->
- To my mind one of the fastest-moving open-source frameworks around at the moment.
- Agents in production
- How to run them better: providers like Portkey and Requesty solve the problem when your inference provider goes down. And on KV caching there is still plenty left on the table.