Martin Gratzer

@mgratzer
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👨‍💻 Staff+ Software Engineer
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Martin GratzerMar 22
Armin RonacherMar 21
“If someone 50 years ago planted a row of oaks or a chestnut tree on your plot of land, you have something that no amount of money or effort can replicate. The only way is to wait.” https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/
Some Things Just Take Time

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
Martin GratzerFeb 25

Weekend project that got a bit meta: I build an agent skill that coaches you how to build a coding agent from scratch.

Eight steps and you understand what's happening when these tools work.

https://mgratzer.com/posts/from-ore-to-iron/

From Ore to Iron: Build Your Own Coding Agent | Martin Gratzer

I used a coding agent to build a skill that runs inside a coding agent to show how to build a coding agent. It's agents all the way down.

Martin GratzerFeb 19

I finally wrote something longer than a toot. First blog post, about building software with agents and the workflow I developed around it.

I built an app for my kids over the holidays. What surprised me wasn't how much the agent could do, but how much the result improved when I treated it like onboarding a new team member instead of prompting a tool.

The post covers the workflow, what worked, where agents fall short, and why code review matters more now, not less.

https://mgratzer.com/posts/forging-a-workflow/

Forging a Workflow: Agentic Engineering in Practice | Martin Gratzer

A side project, a workflow, and the case for keeping humans in the loop when agents write the code.

Martin GratzerJan 18
Just finished Super Mario Wonder with my kids. The joy on their faces the whole way through… Nintendo just gets it.
Martin GratzerNov 21
Ruth — of systems & designNov 21

There’s another Software Architecture Humble Bundle, this time with books from Pearson. (17 more days)

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-architecture-pearson-books

Martin GratzerNov 3
Show threadMario ZechnerNov 2

Finally, full disclosure: I am in now way, shape, or form oposed to the use of LLMs in general. I use them a lot myself, for tasks I know they can acomplish. And I always keep myself as the human in the loop. In fact, the code to render the charts above was generated by an LLM, and then manually reviewed and valdiated by myself, to save time.

What I am oposed to is the mindless use of LLMs to generate slop, or worse, supposed journalistic content. Especially on tax payer money.

Martin GratzerOct 26
randsOct 26
Introverts. We care a lot… at a distance.
Martin GratzerOct 5
JA WestenbergOct 5

We keep repeating the same hubris. We keep praying to the oracle of prediction, hoping we'll be spared the storm.

But the storm always comes.

And it never looks like the forecast.

Here's why I'm done future-proofing my life.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/i-m-done-future-proofing-my-life

I’m Done Future-proofing my Life.

Let the Storm Come

Westenberg.
Martin GratzerSep 22, 2025
MinaSep 22, 2025
John Oliver hat 10 Minuten über #Bernd das #Brot gemacht und erstaunliche charakterliche Übereinstimmungen festgestellt. 😂
Martin GratzerSep 21, 2025
Tim BraySep 20, 2025

This is beautiful; pure poetry: https://obsidian.md/blog/less-is-safer/

(Obsidian’s dependency-management philosophy.)

I have a suggestion: If you have a project or repo that's getting popular, stop writing features for a few months and implement this instead.

#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering #0dependencies

Less is safer: how Obsidian reduces the risk of supply chain attacks

Supply chain attacks are malicious updates that sneak into open source code used by many apps. Here’s how we design Obsidian to ensure that the app is a secure and private environment for your thoughts.

Obsidian