Claude Opus 4 Is The iPhone 4 Of The AI Era The Liquid Engineer from OnTree.co – Issue No. 41 The iPhone 4 was released on June 24, 2010, over 15 years ago. It was a groundbreaking phone, introducing the Retina display that is now built into every modern smartphone. It also was the first iPhone with a front-facing camera, allowing FaceTime video for on a phone. It had a strong CPU built in and shipped with a mature operating system, allowing multitasking and app folders. It was a great...
17 days ago • 3 min read
What I Learned About Claude Code So Far The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 38 I’m still amazed at Claude Code’s performance in my codebase. Within days, I rewrote what took weeks before. Here’s what I learned in the last days: CLAUDE.md’s are important Where the README.md is targeted at humans getting up to speed with a project, the CLAUDE.md is the same for coding agents. This is my starting point, which tells Claude to update the Claude.md. After all, he’s the agent, so he should know best...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Agentic Coding: I Don’t Know Why, But It’s Really Good! The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 37 Agentic Coding: I Don’t Know Why, But It’s Really Good! Cursor significantly improved software development productivity. Claude Code, an Agentic Coding Tool, is out of this world! In the last month, Cursor became my coding companion. Early in my career, I built expertise in front-end technologies and languages, and knew Objective-C in detail. I also understand Kotlin and TypeScript for reading and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
AI As A Steamtrain: What's Wrong With The Comparison The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 36 A common metaphor to explain AI is the historical comparison to horses versus steam trains. When the first steam trains were developed, it was as messy as today. The first prototypes often didn't start, and if they started, they broke down in the middle of the journey. Established horse carriage companies laughed at this. Only when the trains worked reliably a few years later, the horse-powered companies...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Making the Case for Experimenting with AI The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 35 Is it worth your time to experiment with AI? This question might seem superfluous. AI has been here for years now and you’ve seen what it can do. There’s no need to argue for its relevance, right? Alas, here in Germany, in the middle of Europe, things are running a bit differently. Here’s a snippet from prominent football coach Dieter Hecking. (Source: Youtube.com) His answer to whether he is using AI is he’s using...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Taking A Short Break The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 34 This is a short break before we continue next week with fresh content. Enjoy your free day(s)! The most beautiful bench I saw this week to take a break. Hi 👋, I'm Stefan! This is my weekly newsletter about new technology hypes in general and AI in specific. Feel free to forward this mail to people who should read it. If this mail was forwarded to you, please subscribe here. https://liquid.engineer Stefan Munz,...
2 months ago • 1 min read
The Last Issue About 3D Printing The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 33 Yup, this is actually the last issue of this newsletter about 3D printing. I initially wanted to start a separate newsletter for my new product OnTree.co. In the last weeks, I realized it would be too much for me in the upcoming months. I enjoy writing this newsletter and want it to stay that way. The best way forward is to write about topics that interest me. This is more and more OnTree and less and less 3D printing. 🤷♂️...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Philips Joins the Club The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 32 The promo material is on the thick side: Source: printables.com The actual content is on the other end of the spectrum: OneComb for OneBlade. Source: printables.com One comb for the most popular OneBlade shaver from Philips. From a company with 18 billion Euros in revenue and almost 70.000 employees. And a gazillion of different shaver models. And then we haven’t even started to talk about all the other products from Philips. Here at...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Gardena Extensions The Liquid Engineer – Issue No. 31 It’s fascinating to see completely new systems in 3D printing, like Gridfinity or Honeycomb Storage Wall. These systems understand the weak spots of 3D printing and find clever workarounds. There’s also a big market to extend an existing system with inventions of varying usefulness. The Gardena water system is an interesting example. It’s easily accessible as the adapters have a good size and form for printing. The risk is low, the worst...
3 months ago • 1 min read