Signs of life from tomorrow’s world
Karsten Lehmann January 20 2026 11:40:33 PM
Long time no blog post. Doing project work and my family consume most of my time. Our technology stack and project focus has shifted in the last years, more and more away from HCL products.Frontend:
- ReactJS / Primereact
- VueJS
- Typescript
Backend:
- NodeJS with Typescript
- Spring Boot with Java and Kotlin
Storage:
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
AI:
- Cursor (Opus 4.5, GPT 5.2 and Auto mode)
- Windsurf (if Cursor is down ;-) )
- Claude Code
- Nano Banana Pro in Google AI Studio
- Gemini 3 Pro in Google AI Studio
- ChatGPT with deep research
- multiple RAG pipelines and graphical systems for dialog based text analysis
My day as system architect is filled with AI related stuff, from brainstorming sessions with AI, meeting summarization, running deep research jobs in ChatGPT to find useful online services, libraries and technologies, discussion about software architecture decisions, creation of software development plans to AI based execution of coding tasks.
It's hard to remember how life was 1-2 years ago. AI dementia. :-)
I am even planning the bathroom and kitchen renovation in my inherited house with Google's Nano Banano model in AI Studio.
And I learned that Nano Banana does not render tombstones, but ChatGPT does. The stonemason was surprised to get a tombstone rendering from me and pointed out that he has a better text alignment than the AI.
Speaking of tombstones:
I read that Domino now has "IQ" as well :-) , although from my (distant) point of view, it looks like a synchronous LotusScript API that wraps local and remote LLM calls and I am not really getting the concept why I should need it and wait for LotusScript to receive the response. But since I have been busy with a lot of other stuff, I might have missed the important details (yes, I heard RAG is coming to Domino 14.5.1 in some way).
Whenever I have to go back to Eclipse with almost no AI support (just Copilot4Eclipse and even that is not working in Domino Designer), it feels like the stone age.
And I am not willing to go back. LLM's are not great at LotusScript or Domino Java APIs either (of course same for Domino JNA), so my motivation to do Domino related app development does not really exist.
Probably the best way, to work with Domino in this modern world is to consume it's REST API and use it as a pretty decent database server with integrated mail and calendar APIs.
Letting the AI generate ReactJS or VueJS web apps is so much fun, that I prefer to not do that manually anymore. There are more important things for system architects than doing low level work.
But I still check every generated line. Same reason I don't like self driving cars or cruise control. I just don't trust these machines enough. :-)
My next blog post will be about another thing that took some time in the last weeks.
It's not a "DominoDB". But if you change the order of the characters or read my recent X or LinkedIn posts, you might already know what's coming. :-)
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