The worst people with the best AI
So one of the biggest AI stories of the year is clearly the first very well documented IT crime, carried out by OpenAI researchers, instrumented through some AI agents they were testing....
The end of AAAI
Amazon is ending Amazon Mechanical Turk which seems like a branding mistake of the same order as Google shutting down Google Reader and getting rid of the "I'm feeling lucky" button -...
Even the APIs are below the API
When Github ended it's life as an independent company and became just a product in Microsoft's AI business last fall it all seemed a bit premature - Github an AI product? Why cannibalise...
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...
