AI Agents Replaced an IT Department: How It Was Built
Multiple AI agents standing in for an entire IT department at a two-founder company — and Delia Hallberg of Amadeni AI says exactly why that is not vibe coding.
Part 1 of 2. The engineering side of building AI-supported custom software for Mittelstand Germany: what the agents own, where the human stays, and how to design a system so a model is never forced to invent an answer.
- The agent split — ~80% of marketing, plus research, sales handover and multi-agent coding
- The boundary test — you understand your agents if you could do the work yourself tomorrow
- Capacity, not competence — what agents actually replace, and what they never will
- Anti-hallucination design — small tasks, unconnected models, source traceability, human in the loop
- Ostdeutscher Bankenverband — where a fabricated figure is a reputational event
- Voice-first ERP — dictation from the car, transcription, administrative rewrite, automated workflow
- The naming test — a process nobody can describe without naming a person cannot be automated
Chapters (estimated — confirm against the final cut)
00:00 Cheap code versus bought software
01:10 Software, process or leadership
04:05 Symptoms versus requirements
06:40 Which agents replaced which roles
10:15 Garbage in, garbage out
12:00 Capacity versus competence
15:20 When not to build
18:40 Impuls KBB and the voice-first ERP
23:10 Triage with 40 media breaks
26:30 The single ROI number
29:40 Shadow IT as a design signal
33:00 Hallucination by design, not by hope
Part 2 lands Tuesday, September 22nd, 2026 — model-agnostic architecture after the June 2026 US export order.
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Host: Jörn "Joe" Menninger, Frankfurt am Main. LinkedIn
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