Documenting the journey from enterprise architect to AI practitioner. Real experiments, honest takes.https://michaelbbetz.com/en-ushttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/senior-engineer-learning-ai/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/senior-engineer-learning-ai/Twenty years of experience makes some things easier and some things harder. Here's the honest version.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTAICareerLearninghttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/model-wars-are-over-now-choose/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/model-wars-are-over-now-choose/GPT-5, Claude Opus 4, Gemini 3, and Grok 4 all dropped within weeks of each other. Benchmarks are nearly tied. The question has shifted from which model wins to which model fits your use case.Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIArchitectureToolshttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/agentic-ai-governance-architect-problem/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/agentic-ai-governance-architect-problem/94% of enterprises running AI agents say they're worried about agent sprawl, technical debt, and security risk. That's an architecture problem. Here's what it actually looks like to govern a fleet of agents.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIArchitectureAgentshttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/claude-code-sub-agents-deep-dive/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/claude-code-sub-agents-deep-dive/Most developers use Claude Code as a smarter autocomplete. The real unlock is the Agent tool — spawning parallel sub-agents that explore your codebase independently and keep your main context clean.Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIClaude CodeToolshttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/building-a-recipe-manager-with-ai/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/building-a-recipe-manager-with-ai/A full-stack Next.js app that imports recipes from any website, generates weekly meal plans, and consolidates ingredients into a smart shopping list.Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIBuild LogNext.jsTypeScripthttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/building-this-site-with-ai/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/building-this-site-with-ai/A honest account of using Claude Code alongside VS Code, GitHub, Netlify, and Cloudflare to get a site from zero to live.Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIToolsBuild Loghttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/welcome-to-my-journey/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/welcome-to-my-journey/After 20+ years in enterprise architecture, I'm going deep on AI. Here's why I'm doing it in public.Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAICareerLearninghttps://michaelbbetz.com/blog/sql-to-llm-mindset-shift/https://michaelbbetz.com/blog/sql-to-llm-mindset-shift/What two decades of database architecture taught me about thinking in probabilities instead of certainties.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIDatabasesArchitecture