Posts by Ryan Fleischmann
At this point : none. I just got raw claude code and the abapGit repo.
Clean setup - first time I’m getting am employer-provided access to claude code
I know adding the skills will only make it better.
I was able to enhance some classes, write a new se38 report, and update a few cds views
abapGit and Claude Code working really nicely for me these days
A few extra Claude skills and I think thats pretty much all I personally need for AI-assisted ABAP development
As a developer with a SAP partner
I now consider writing ABAP code for customer systems a lot like using the bathroom at a friends house 🚽
Its ok if you have to use it - but don’t spend too long in there and don’t stink and mess it up
You’ll get blamed for that anyway though 🤣
Is there still fishing?
A 2010s show we watched in the 2010s
This a remarkably common downgrade across all pieces of tech.
By end of 2010s DVD/Blu ray Players, Tvs, Phones, Cars - all got rid of clicky chunky buttons and knobs and replaced them “touch sensitive” buttons and touch screens.
I hate it so so much
This game is the best $5 I’ve ever spent as a gamer
Instant fun
Writing new integrations in ABAP *on stack* in 2025 is a lot like inviting people over to your house
Should you do it? Can you do it? Sure. Absolutely even.
But if you let too much come and go - you could have a real mess
I don’t think thats lost on the US at all
The big question is whether it gets work through in a genuinely friendly and effective way
Would not be shocked if Trump admin attempts to tariff US companies use of offshore labor next
Lots of anguish about H1-B n the US
Big shakeups are undoubtedly coming to US - based SAP projects because of it
It is very common for 80-90 percent of SAP roles on US projects to be a past or present immigrants from India
Even common in US govt and defense roles where US Citizenship is reqd
Reply here or send dms if interested
It lead me to genuinely feeling what comedian Mitch Hedburg felt when he said
“man I’m tired of chasing my dreams man… I just wanna ask where they’re going and hook up with them later”
Sometime I may do a retrospective.
A set of technical and life lessons learned of SAP tech professional who strayed into the web3 domain for a season of life
And still has a postitive outlook on cryptos future in our world and the enterprise - despite also living through some of the worst of it
Big difference from my last effort to this one
This is entirely CAP based. Vs what I was earlier doing with ABAP. Node.js is naturally a way better purpose built for this kind of thing than ABAP ever will be
Since earlier this year I’ve been tinkering again with blockchain/digital asset integrations with SAP
Initial results of the MVP/Poc I have are looking good.
Even if you typically write off the web3 domain you should find it interesting - particularly if you like cryptography
You will see soon!
Who wins in 2025
100 offshore developers
Vs
1 expert developer vibe coding in AI gorilla bananza mode
What’s an underrated non-technical green flag in SAP Basis admins?
I’ll start:
An obsession with Rube Goldberg machines
It was okay project - though stifling in ways
I moved into freelancing later in my career though
It was strangely difficult to convince this EA the standard oData services even existed
I remember after activating API_SalesOrder and API_BusinessPartner we spent a few months arguing whether or not we were even licensed to use these on S/4 HANA private cloud
EA was extremely cautious with respect to direct access to the S/4 system. Security. Performance.
+ pretty large number of PO devs/leads were placed on the project who all held a similar view that SAP PO was the best way to build REST services on S/4 HANA
Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night from this nightmare from my past
It’s 2019 and the SAP S4 project I am on requires *every* REST API be created with SAP PI/PO
The EA banned oData services from consideration. Even the standard ones 😖😣
Every time I have to do a formal agile training - it kinda feels I’m getting put into cult
The spirit of Miiverse will live on in Splatoon 4 I think
What if the frogs caught their fishing bait with their tongues? 🐸🪰
Randomly got some http 400 JSON serialization errors in a SAP CAP project this week
Double checked the payload and http handlers. No obvious flaws or issues
Updated all the node modules. Problem solved.
Not entirely sure why it worked - but I guess thats kudos to keeping apps up to date!
Here’s little issue I found with CAP and BTP destinations
If your destination has the property ‘HTML5.forwardAuthToken’ set to true - you are very likely to have issues using CAP’s native ‘cds.connect.to’
More cases than not - leave it off. Unless a specific oauth flow is mandatory
Hard to iterate on perfection