Mike
Veerman

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CTO in residence
from Belgium 🇧🇪

Mike is a seasoned software architect turned seasoned engineering manager

Building software products is a tricky balancing act and Mike loves helping teams get better at it. He's allergic to paint-by-numbers-Agile and believes the right process has to be tailor-made for each company.

Which is the coolest country you ever visited?
Definitely Iceland! Or maybe Romania...? Or Indonesia? Antwerp?

Water or coffee?
Hard to give up one or the other, so let's meet in the middle and settle on an Americano?

About Mike

Base: Antwerp (BE)
Studies: Bachelor in Software engineering
Passions: rock climbing, travelling, amateur craft beer brewing

Expertises

Technical leadership
High performance teams
Writing
Coaching
Software Architecture
Keeping things simple

Articles by Mike

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The end of the all-you-can-eat buffet

LLMs

Ideas

The all-you-can-eat era of AI is ending. Compute constraints, heavier models, and a fully hooked user base are pushing providers toward pay-as-you-go. That shift will force better choices, smaller models, and fiercer competition between tools.

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The artificial Turk and our role as software experts

AI Agents

AI development

We smile at the 18th-century crowd for being swept up by a box with a man inside, yet today it's easy to hand ChatGPT a vague idea and treat the PRD it returns as gospel. Generative AI is genuinely powerful. We get the best from it when we bring both enthusiasm and a critical eye.

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Running multiple Claude accounts without logging out

AI Agents

AI development

Managing multiple Claude Code accounts across machines gets messy fast. Jean-Claude keeps the useful parts in sync, separates account-specific config, and makes switching between personal, team, and client setups far less painful.

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Mike
Veerman

About Mike

Expertises

Articles by Mike

The end of the all-you-can-eat buffet

The artificial Turk and our role as software experts

Running multiple Claude accounts without logging out

QA is the last bottleneck

Why AI will not kill open source

On the imminent retirement of the keyboard - the future of software engineering

Getting started with performance testing

What will the state of AI be like by this time next year?

Smart is not enough: three criteria to select AI tools

Fitness for purpose: taking risks with quality

Some of Mike's colleagues

Emma

Peter

Michał

Stef

Christophe

Jonas

Oluwaseyi

Jeffrey

Yannick

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