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Francois Rautenbach

A collection of 3 posts
OP-ED - An engineer and his team of AI agents have a quarrel with your bank card
Fintech

OP-ED - An engineer and his team of AI agents have a quarrel with your bank card

Part three of three on Francois Rautenbach, an engineer using AI to do the work of five while making the case for a way to pay that hangs on proof rather than trust.
15 Sep 2026 7 min read
OP-ED - Companies in pain pay best
Entrepreneurship

OP-ED - Companies in pain pay best

Part two of three on hardware-software specialist Francois Rautenbach captures his doctrine of the willing customer and follows the trail from a coffee chat at Novell's Utah HQ to the Payment Pebble.
08 Sep 2026 6 min read
OP-ED - He read the software off a Moon-mission computer. Now he's wary of the rush to skip the basics.
Career

OP-ED - He read the software off a Moon-mission computer. Now he's wary of the rush to skip the basics.

First in a three-part series on Francois Rautenbach, a South African engineer who has caught every wave of computing from Apollo-era hardware to AI coding agents, and what his career climb says about learning to build when the machine seems to write itself.
01 Sep 2026 6 min read
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