Hi there 👋
We are Claudebusters. We have a bit of a different standpoint towards AI in IT. Some of us don't use any of the AI coding tools, some of us are required to use them, but all of us are at least skeptical.
One thing we do have in common: We refuse to deskill ourselves and keep our expertise fresh and alive. If you find yourself in a situation in which you want to understand your ages old codebase or code that has been generated by slop fixers, feel free to call and ask what we can do for you.
Who we are
- Michael Simons, usually breaks stuff as a service, doesn't need Mythos for that. Thinks that computers have been a mistake, likes them and the things one can build with them nevertheless. Was able to register this domain in Germany via domainfactory, who required him to send a hand-signed fax instead of a digitally signed PDF (actual facts, not a joke).
- Greg Woods, prefers to talk to computers in their own native language. Prefers to talk to humans directly rather than indirectly via a bot. Believes technology should get out of the way and enhance life and not dominate it. Can register a domain without a fax.
- Oli Thissen thought that computers were cool from an early age and basically still does, but is proven wrong on a regular basis. Well, not computers themselves, obviously, as silicon has no agency, but the things they are used for. He adheres to the firm belief that every line of code is one too many or should at least benefit humanity as a whole. He is not strictly against AI but against its current manifestation as GenAI, consuming society, ethics and environment. He became politically radicalized after plans emerged for a data center to be built at his doorstep.
Expertise
Together we have decades of experiences in those technologies:
- Java, from 1.4 to 26 and higher, including all relevant frameworks, such as Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Quarkus and more. We are contributors to many open source projects, including the mentioned frameworks
- All kinds of databases, but primarily relational and graph databases, such as Oracle, Postgres, DuckDB and Neo4j
- Dataaccess technologies, such as Hibernate, jOOQ and all the Spring Data modules and various object-relational and object-graph mappers, such as Neo4j-OGM and Spring Data Neo4j
- Funky "old" stuff, like Oracle Forms and Oracle PL/SQL
We do manage to exit vi and are fluent with relevant tooling, such as git. Still got your code in subversion or cvs? Be our guest. Your stack isn't here? Just ask.
Contact
You can drop us a line at contact@claudebusters.com or ping us via any of the profiles mentioned at the top.