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 the single most important source code platform on the planet like that? When you look at it now …
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 - and that AI only made software more relevant, in that the reach is …
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 1.2% on this benchmark where humans easily score 100% ". Granted it's 2026 and they are only at the …
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 question in my mind that the time when we write code in programming languages is ending. In that way we're …
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 for any succesful SaaS concept, the original investment has very little to do with either the lifetime investment …
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 experience around each BTId conceiving of it as a 'location' (a little bit leaning on …
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 old time capsule! How lucky does one get to be - I'm going to open the capsule and share what …
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 was played on a Prophet 5. It's not a sample player it's a real synth based on the …
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 about a mayor claiming that "I want to make this city great" - it's hard to imagine a politician running to make the …
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 programming itself - the transition from programming language-driven machines to natural language-driven machines. The software 1.0 inbetween …
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 capability between human beings and AI were extremely visible - no AIs were able to mimic people for …
Why isn't the learning fun in edu-games? My daughter is learning arithmetic.. and in this day an age that means also training a lot in a bunch of math games the teachers use to keep the children at it. Most - all - of these games are a little disappointing. They have …
We are so back The internet is dying. SoMe is dying. What AI doesn't kill horrible politics and worse owners does - so it's time to circle the wagons and roll back to an internet we liked. We're going to lose some of the normals along the way - but we gotta …