Michael is an Enterprise Architect at Element Logic, working on the company’s next-generation warehouse software for AutoStore-based intralogistics. His pull toward architecture goes back to 2007 at Siemens — drawn to patterns and clean code long before he had a name for what he was doing. In the years since, based in Stuttgart, he has built and architected warehouse management systems, including a stint as Chief Software Architect at S&P Computersysteme (now part of Element Logic). A long-time skeptic of the noise around AI-assisted development, he changed his mind only after watching a small team rebuild the core of the platform in days through fleets of parallel AI agents — something he couldn’t quite believe until he saw it run. He now tells that story with deliberate honesty: the whole context — costs, trade-offs, and open questions included — not the marketing version.