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René Zander

I help mid-size companies and enterprises put AI to work in real processes.

architecture

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Your AI PoC Works. Here's Why It Still Won't Reach Production

Jul 28, 2026

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1 min read

Your AI PoC Works. Here's Why It Still Won't Reach Production

René Zander
René Zander

security

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Never Let an AI Agent Grade Its Own Homework

Jul 22, 2026

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1 min read

Never Let an AI Agent Grade Its Own Homework

René Zander
René Zander

iot

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This Smart-Home Agent Treats Its Own 1B Model as Untrusted Input

Jul 7, 2026

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1 min read

This Smart-Home Agent Treats Its Own 1B Model as Untrusted Input

René Zander
René Zander

ai agent

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Sandboxing an AI Coding Agent: The Harness Owns the Boundaries

Jul 3, 2026

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1 min read

Sandboxing an AI Coding Agent: The Harness Owns the Boundaries

René Zander
René Zander

ai agent

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Two Kinds of Agent Memory: OKF Bundles vs. Codebase Knowledge Graphs

Jun 30, 2026

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1 min read

Two Kinds of Agent Memory: OKF Bundles vs. Codebase Knowledge Graphs

René Zander
René Zander

ai agent

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Replacing LeanIX failed. Sitting on top of it worked.

Jun 27, 2026

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1 min read

Replacing LeanIX failed. Sitting on top of it worked.

René Zander
René Zander

Software Development

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The Four Villains Living in Your Agent's System Prompt

Jun 25, 2026

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1 min read

The Four Villains Living in Your Agent's System Prompt

René Zander
René Zander

Software Development

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Why Execution-Only AI Agents Fail

Jun 21, 2026

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1 min read

Why Execution-Only AI Agents Fail

Add a Steering Layer

René Zander
René Zander

Software Development

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Your AI Agent Trusts Google More Than the Fix You Proved Last Week

Jun 17, 2026

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1 min read

Your AI Agent Trusts Google More Than the Fix You Proved Last Week

René Zander
René Zander

Software Development

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Your AI agent says it's done. The research says you can't trust that.

Jun 16, 2026

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1 min read

Your AI agent says it's done. The research says you can't trust that.

René Zander
René Zander

Software Development

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Agent Memory Without a Vector DB: Use the Task App You Already Curate

Jun 13, 2026

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1 min read

Agent Memory Without a Vector DB: Use the Task App You Already Curate

René Zander
René Zander
I let the AI close duplicate GitHub issues. Then I turned that off.

Jun 13, 2026

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1 min read

I let the AI close duplicate GitHub issues. Then I turned that off.

René Zander
René Zander
Why only 60% of AI Agents succeed

Jun 9, 2026

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1 min read

Why only 60% of AI Agents succeed

René Zander
René Zander

discuss

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Claude Code Stops Following Your CLAUDE.md

Jun 2, 2026

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1 min read

Claude Code Stops Following Your CLAUDE.md

Read-Once Rules and Hooks

René Zander
René Zander
HubSpot lead scoring told us who was engaged. Not who would pay.

May 30, 2026

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1 min read

HubSpot lead scoring told us who was engaged. Not who would pay.

The trick: store the reasoning trace as a property reps can read, not a log in CloudWatch.

René Zander
René Zander
The Skill Library Has a Discovery Ceiling. Most Hit It Around 50.

May 27, 2026

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1 min read

The Skill Library Has a Discovery Ceiling. Most Hit It Around 50.

René Zander
René Zander

discuss

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Browser-Use Is Solving the Wrong Half of the Problem

May 19, 2026

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1 min read

Browser-Use Is Solving the Wrong Half of the Problem

The Reasoning Model Gets Its Reasoning Capacity Back

René Zander
René Zander

discuss

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Context Engineering Is Just File Naming

May 12, 2026

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1 min read

Context Engineering Is Just File Naming

René Zander
René Zander
Your AI Workflow Doesn't Need Better Prompts. It Needs Less AI.

May 5, 2026

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6 min read

Your AI Workflow Doesn't Need Better Prompts. It Needs Less AI.

Prompting is discovery. Skills are repetition. Gates are how AI workflows become reliable.

René Zander
René Zander
Claude Code with Local LLMs and ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM

Apr 29, 2026

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1 min read

Claude Code with Local LLMs and ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, vLLM

Run Claude Code on a local LLM via ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL.

René Zander
René Zander
Voice AI in Production: From RunPod to Hosted Kubernetes

Apr 26, 2026

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1 min read

Voice AI in Production: From RunPod to Hosted Kubernetes

One pod serves one user at a time. Production serves thousands.

René Zander
René Zander

René Zander

AI systems for companies that need scalable results in 2-6 weeks.

© 2026 René Zander.
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