We ain't 'fraid of no Claude…
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, known as @rotnroll666@mastodon.social, usually breaks stuff as a service and 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 graph and relational databases, such as Neo4j, DuckDB, Oracle, Postgres and DuckDB
- Data access 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.
Is this serious?
On whether we have serious doubts and criticism on what the general application of AI on society does to it, the concrete effect of AI being utilized as a tool against the working class in many sectors, on how models are unethically sourced and trained, the tremendous negative environmental impact, and a similar negative impact on cognitive abilities and problem-solving, yes, very much.
Could you hire any of us tomorrow for work? No, this is not a company, just an idea for now, but you know, never say never.
Further reading
Further reading or a curated list of interesting bookmarks:
- AI economics for dummies (Visited last on 2026-06-12)
- The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess (Visited last on 2026-06-04)
- Technology and dominance: The grandeur of humanity in light of the promises of AI (Visited last on 2026-05-27)
- Das Currywurst-Manifest (Visited last on 2026-05-14)
- The Slow Death of the Power User (Visited last on 2026-05-12)
- AI as a Fascist Artifact (Visited last on 2026-05-12)
- Programming Still Sucks. (Visited last on 2026-05-12)
- A cartoonist's review of AI art (Visited last on 2026-05-12)
Contact
You can drop us a line at contact@claudebusters.com or ping us via any of the profiles mentioned. Speaking from experience, proper intellectual honest discussions about all aspects on AI can be refreshing, realizing one is not alone with doubt and other negative feelings.