The Team

The human decides. The model assists.

You talk to the person who also builds your software. No handover between account manager and team, no knowledge lost along the way. Working with AI as a dedicated development partner supplies the pace you would expect from a larger agency.

Guy ten Bruggencate, founder of ten Bruggencate Development

Guy ten Bruggencate

Founder & Senior Developer

Guy ten Bruggencate is a software engineer with over 20 years of experience in backend and full-stack development. From technical specialist at various agencies, through senior developer and tech lead roles, to an independent practice supporting clients across complex software projects.

Core expertise: Symfony, Laravel, Shopware, PHP and Pimcore. Core strength: architectural oversight, pragmatic approach and direct communication without middlemen.

Architecture, technical decisions and client contact all run through Guy, and every line of code that reaches production has been read by him. That is a choice rather than a bottleneck: there is always someone who sees the whole and is answerable for what runs.

Works with

  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • PHP
  • Shopware
  • Docker
  • MySQL
AI Development Partner

Claude

AI Development Partner

Claude is the AI assistant by Anthropic, used daily as a dedicated development partner. Not a gadget and not an experiment, but a fixed part of the development process. Where it helps is nameable: writing tests, keeping documentation current, carrying out large refactors and getting to grips with an unfamiliar codebase quickly.

Claude assists with writing, reviewing and refactoring code, writing tests, analysing architectural decisions and generating documentation. All under the direct supervision and final responsibility of Guy.

The result: work that traditionally required a team, delivered with the consistency of one continuous way of working.

Used for

  • Code Review
  • Testing
  • Documentation
  • Architecture
  • Security Analysis
  • Refactoring

How the collaboration works

Every assignment follows a proven process where human and AI work together — but the human always decides.

  • Guy designs

    01

    Architecture, strategy and technical decisions are made by a senior developer with 20+ years of experience.

  • Claude assists

    02

    AI helps with code generation, testing, documentation and exploring solution directions — always within the boundaries Guy sets.

  • Guy reviews

    03

    All code is reviewed by an experienced developer. Nothing goes to production without human approval.

  • Better together

    04

    The result: higher quality, shorter lead times, and someone to talk to who knows your project from beginning to end.

Why AI as a development partner?

  • Faster delivery

    Tasks that normally take hours — writing tests, generating documentation, refactoring code — are completed in minutes. This means faster delivery without compromising on quality.

  • Higher code quality

    Every change passes automated checks for consistency, security and common practice first, and a human afterwards. Two different kinds of check catch different mistakes.

  • Scalability without overhead

    Work that traditionally required a small team now comes out of one continuous way of working. No overhead, no knowledge lost between people, no quality that varies per engagement.

  • Always up to date

    A model knows the documentation of a framework better than someone who has not touched it in two years. What shipped last week it does not know — which is why we check versions and security advisories at the source, not with the model.

Where the line is drawn

AI does not replace craftsmanship — it enhances it. All decisions, all architecture, all client communication: that is and remains human work. AI is the tool that makes it possible to deliver at the level a large project demands, without agency overhead.

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Curious what is possible?

One conversation is usually enough to tell whether it fits. A reply within 24 hours, and no middlemen.

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  • A reply within 24 hours, always personal
  • Half an hour on the phone gets you the order of magnitude
  • A first conversation without obligation
  • Including software originally built by someone else