Henrik Becker on .NET, software architecture, AI tools and side projects. https://www.becker-consulting.se/en/blog/ 2026-09-04T20:44:52Z Henrik Becker https://www.becker-consulting.se/en/blog/ai-and-domain-knowledge/ 2026-09-04T20:44:52Z

Why domain knowledge matters more, not less, now that AI writes a lot of the code.

<p>Claude Code has changed how I work. Boilerplate, refactoring, finding my way around an unfamiliar codebase, drafting tests: a lot of that is faster now.</p> <p>But these tools don't know your domain. They don't know why a business rule exists, which edge case matters to your users, or what &quot;correct&quot; means in your context. And they don't know when they're wrong. They're just as confident either way.</p> <p>So domain knowledge matters more now, not less. The people who get the most out of AI are the ones who know the domain well enough to spot when it's confidently wrong, and to steer it when it's guessing.</p> <p>Treat it as a tool. Anyone who treats it as a colleague who knows the business is in for a surprise, usually in production.</p> https://www.becker-consulting.se/en/blog/uiaas/ 2026-09-03T16:25:08Z

Meet UIaaS — Useless Information as a Service.

<p>Meet UIaaS — Useless Information as a Service. Inspired by Kittens-as-a-Service, it's a fully documented API that returns information you didn't need and can't use. Swagger docs and everything, because if you're going to be useless, you might as well be professionally useless about it.</p> <p>There's a &quot;usefulness&quot; column in the database. By design, it's only ever allowed to be zero or negative.</p> <p>There's also a &quot;beg for money&quot; button. No further comment.</p> <p>The actual point, buried under the bit: from idea to a live, documented API in about an afternoon, with Claude Code. Semantic CV took weeks by comparison. The AI makes the typing fast, not the engineering.</p> <p><a href="https://uiaas.becker-consulting.se/">https://uiaas.becker-consulting.se/</a></p> <p>(Also — open to new consulting engagements. Backend, .NET, solutions architecture. Unlike UIaaS, the usefulness column on those projects is reliably positive.)</p> https://www.becker-consulting.se/en/blog/semantic-cv-launch/ 2026-04-17T21:43:03Z

A structured, JSON-LD–based way to write and publish a CV.

<p>Today I launched semantic.cv.</p> <p>You write your CV once as structured data (schema.org JSON-LD) and publish it as a web page, an ATS-friendly PDF and a designed PDF. There have been structured CV formats before, JSON Resume being the best known, but I wanted one built on schema.org, with a workflow all the way to a published CV.</p> <p>My own CV is built with it now. It took a few weeks of work and a lot of iteration.</p> <p>It's live at <a href="https://semantic.cv">https://semantic.cv</a></p>