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I’m an independent IT consultant and entrepreneur in the Internet and software business. I’m interested in design, enterprise applications, web apps and SaaS products. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of software quality and knowledge transfer, e.g. with Angular and Spring Boot.

DeckWeaver and an Interview About the AI Unified Process

As I frequently run bespoke training sessions and project-based workshops for clients, I create quite a lot of presentations. For quite some time now, I've been collaborating with ChatGPT to help me generate content for such presentations much more efficiently. However, as I use Google Slides (rather than a Markdown-based presentation tool), I faced the significant problem of having to manually import the content into Google Slides presentations via copy and paste, which was very time-consuming. Hence, I had the idea for a ...

Spec-Driven Development: How AI Changed Everything (And Nothing) by Simon Martinelli @ Spring I/O 2026

Sunday May 17th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Front End Development, Software, Web Applications

Claude Code for Spring Developers by Thomas Schilling @ Spring I/O 2026

Sunday May 3rd, 2026 by Bjoern in General

Repost: I don’t want an app for that

About 11 years ago I wrote this - in hindsight, of course - eerily prescient article (in turn inspired by an article by Scott Adams) on what I considered to be the future of UIs: I don’t want an app for that As it turned out, LLM UIs such as ChatGPT and agentic AI systems now pretty much work that way I envisioned the user experience for future computing devices to be like.

Sunday April 12th, 2026 by Bjoern in General

Francois Zaninotto on The Bright Future of Developers

A few months ago Marmelab CEO Francois Zaninotto wrote this interesting piece on The Bright Future of Developers in the age of AI and the rise of natural language developers. In this article, Francois outlines how generative AI has changed (and is still changing) software development - and coding in particular - for good by introducing a new abstraction level for programming: natural language. He goes on to explain that, like with previous iterations, while this new abstraction level frees developers from lower-level ...

Sunday March 22nd, 2026 by Bjoern in Software

Modular RAG Architectures With Java and Spring AI by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday January 11th, 2026 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Taming Testing of AI Apps by Alex Soto @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday November 2nd, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Launching Efficiencer.ai – AI-Augmented Process Automation for SMEs

Recently, I’ve been working on something new – a productised consulting service that builds directly on my experience in business process automation, digitisation, and IT consulting for SMEs. Today, I’m excited to announce the launch of Efficiencer.ai. Efficiencer helps small and medium-sized enterprises map their most repetitive workflows – email triage, document processing, ERP/CRM updates – and replace them with lightweight, explainable, and monitored AI automations. Using Spring AI, LangChain4j, and industry-standard tooling, we ensure future-proof scalability and GDPR-compliant operation, on-prem if required. The ...

Sunday August 17th, 2025 by Bjoern in Business, Entrepreneurship

Practical Agentic RAG with Spring AI in Modern Enterprise Applications by Dan Dobrin @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday July 20th, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Code Smarter, Not Harder: AI-Powered Dev Hacks for All by Dan Vega @ Spring I/O 2025

Sunday June 22nd, 2025 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Björn Wilmsmann

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