- Origin
- Netherlands
- Work
- Product / R&D
- Shipped
- 28 Sep 2026
Every systemis one bit,repeated.
Chris Wijnia is a Dutch engineer and co-founder. He works on financial software and AI systems.
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[2^0] The bit · 1 state of 2
Approve the payment or hold it. Trust the answer or ask again. Ship the pixel or move it one to the left. Everything I build ends in a decision small enough to fit in one bit. The work is making sure it is the right one.
Flip the bit. This page has two states.
[2^3] The byte · design
I started in design, placing pixels one at a time until a shape read as a word. Software is built the same way: from the smallest unit up.
Flip a bit. Make a letter.
C0x43
01000011
[2^10] The ledger · financial software
In financial software nothing is probably right. No rounding error is too small to matter, and no state is allowed to drift. Every debit meets its credit. Every action leaves a record that adds up, today and in the audit years from now.
Simulated ledgerBalances or stops
Σ debit − credit0.00 · OK
[2^20] The weights · AI systems
A model is a vast field of numbers nobody set by hand. Useful, and never quite certain. I build the part around it: where it may act alone, where it has to ask, and how anyone can check afterwards what it did and why.
Confidencep = 0.90
Threshold 0.95→ Ask a person
AI makes software cheaper. Systems thinking becomes more valuable. →
[2^n] The company · co-founder
A company runs on what good software runs on: clear states, clean interfaces, and nothing that only works as long as someone remembers.
- 01Resolution is a choiceDecide how much detail a problem deserves, then commit to it.
- 02Two states beat fiveIf a feature cannot say yes or no, it is not finished.
- 03The ledger balancesEvery action leaves a record, and the records add up.
- 04The model proposesA person signs. The system always knows which is which.
- 05Every pixel on purposeIncluding the ones nobody will ever notice.
[2^n] Work · 2007–now
- 01Agio Digital →2021–Now
- 02AI systems →2022–Now
- 031GRAM →2020–2021
- 04MVRDV →2015–2019
- 05JIJ & Overijssel →2014–2018
- 06100-100-100 →2014–2019
- 07Archive →2007–2022
[1] Back to one bit
Building something where a wrong answer costs money, or where a machine’s answer has to be trusted? Tell me in a line. I will answer in more than one bit.