Is software still a career?
A few months back I wrote a comment on LinkedIn to a young person who was giving up on learning to be a software professional - I suggested that it was to soon to give up on software -...
The unreasonable effectiveness of stochastic parrots
The year is 2040 and the ARC Prize make the following exciting announcement: "We are pleased to announce ARC-AGI 16, the next evolution of the ARC Prize. Current frontier models score...
Coding is over. But the specs still need to be written
Last week I had the privilege to join Henrik Føhns in a conversation (in Danish) about software agents in general, Open Claw, but also more specifically coding agents. There's no...
Some bad takes from the internet
It's all about risks The maker of Keras argues that nothing has changed in SaaS Here's what's wrong in the argument - it's a contorted form of survivor bias. It's absolutely true that...
Flashback to simpler times
Just found this old post on Wired from way back when I presented Imity to the world at Where 2.0 in San Jose. Imity was Bluetooth wardriving as social network. We built a social...
Opening a Time Capsule from 1996
While cleaning up my bookshelves I came across this amazing time capsule from 1996 - Reality Check a collection of predictions about the future from Wired's network of experts. A 30 year...
Genius 5 - A browser-based 'analog' synth
During christmas I started vibe-building a synthesizer in the browser. I wanted to build a thing that could play the famous hook from Genius of Love by Tom Tom Club - which originally...
Triviality tests and the sycophancy problem
Maybe you're familiar with the concept of a triviality test in political debate. It's really simple - it involves asking yourself the question: Would anyone disagree with this? Think...
Software 2.5, Software 3.0 and Software 3.5
A couple of weeks ago Andrej Karpathy generated a ton of buzz with a talk where he presented the idea of Software 3.0 - describing LLMs as the next revolution of computers and...
Thinking? What thinking?
Do machines think? The Large Language Model (LLM) revolution in AI has shifted the debate on whether machines can even think from what it used to be. 10 years ago the difference in...
