undoom.news
Good stories from around the world, published in daily editions and ten languages. A map for readers, an editorial workspace behind it, and AI for research, writing and translation.
Software Architecture · AI · Projects
Deep roots
New shoots
Software systems grow, and AI becomes part of them. I build projects to find out how, then write down what they teach me.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
“We wanted to give our journalists as much time as possible to write. The results speak for themselves with an 80 percent increase in production efficiency.”
Aptoma’s editorial platform and CMS. Thousands of journalists at major media organisations work in it every day. My work on DrPublish runs through product design, architecture and code. I have worked on this and many other software systems for the last 25 years.
Roles through the years at Aptoma: Head of Product · Product Owner & UX Lead · Lead Developer · Head of Development · System Architect · AI Integration
Personal projects.
What I’m building — and how.
Warré Archive
An interest in keeping bees in a way that respects their needs led me to Warré hives. The archive is my way of contributing my experience as a software developer to the community.
The Bee Pastor
My manual transcription of a beekeeping book from 1798 grew into a digital edition with historical research, explanatory essays and a fable told from a bee’s perspective.
optimistic.day
An exploration of Stoicism, the philosophy I live by, and what it means in everyday life.
parlarina.com
I wanted to build a language-learning app that worked for me. I took on too much in the first attempt. Now I am planning a smaller, gradual rebuild centred on conversation.
Working notes.
What I learn while building.
Building an editorial system that scales better with agentic coding
During the relaunch of undoom.news, I developed the editorial system iteratively with agentic coding. How everyday use led to targeted improvements in data access, indexes and caching.
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Context, Construction and Reconstruction
Building with agents changed what I need to understand myself — and where experience still matters.
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Who catches the wrong shape?
AI can produce code that works, passes its tests and still has the wrong shape. Programming experience is what makes that visible.
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I thought the path was obvious.
Experience cannot be transferred by demonstration. Every developer needs room to discover agentic work through a project of their own.
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The good king
AI agents can give us more capable advisers than ever. The responsibility for deciding whom to trust, what helps and when to stop remains ours.
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About me.
I’m Stefan Grunert, a software architect from Germany, living in Skarnes, near Oslo. My interests include history, beekeeping, languages and philosophy. Some of my projects grow out of these interests.