Short posts, useful discoveries and things I’m still figuring out. A little closer to the moment.
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While we wait for the next #ensakidag episode, have a listen to the conversation between Mats and me. It’s about my favourite subject: AI in everyday life. Available wherever you get your podcasts.
(and as usual, jump in if I’ve missed or misunderstood…
My AI team has just had another pay rise. Up 20% in five months.
And I’m fairly sure the calculation still misses quite a few costs.
Even so, this is unquestionably one of the best investments I make every month. Even at ten times the cost, the ROI would…
#ensakidag 504: 1X’s new robot hands, and the human behind the curtain
A robot pouring tea and building LEGO. Cool, sure. But that isn’t why I’m recording this.
1X showed new hands for its home robot NEO: 25 degrees of freedom, tendon-driven (the fingers…
Always be building.
Message from my son: “Could we add a table-captain feature to the website? Like pinning a little person at the table as the table captain?”
Me: 🫡
#vicecodingislife
#ensakidag 503: China, fintech patents and the old maps we carry in our luggage
China has overtaken the US in fintech patents. True? Yes. The whole truth? Not even close.
I read the headline this morning and immediately felt it was too easy to swallow. So…
#ensakidag 502: Summer suggestions, five books and five podcasts (with a bonus)
Five minutes a day won’t be enough this summer. So here’s the list I actually use to prepare my clients: a collection of books and podcasts.
The books take a journey from systems…
#ensakidag 501: AI pluralism, and a conversation with Olof Palme
Today I called Olof Palme. For real, sort of.
Someone in the AI Party (whose politics I hardly share) has vibe-coded a site: turn “Ring Olof Palme” into one word and move the dot into the…
Once upon a time, Lovable received a lot of justified criticism for generating redundant and poor-quality code. That still happens sometimes. But generally, I think we’re now at the point where it produces better frontend code than most developers and…
#ensakidag 500: half a thousand episodes later, the next journey begins
... about nine years of thinking and 500 episodes becoming raw material for AI, new ideas and new services. About entering a time when the boundary between user and developer is…
My old thought → an archive → a meta-site → an idea → a prompt → a finished service, with a single click. (And DN gets caught running 113 trackers.)
Look at this 🎉
Later today, I’m releasing ensakidag.se alongside episode 500: the entire archive,…