If you had any doubt that AI is going to completely change programming as a profession, you just need to look at the graph below. It’s a chart showing the number of new questions asked per month on Stack Overflow. The first month Stack Overflow launched they got 3 749 questions, and last month they

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A year ago on December 14 2024 Ilya Sutskever famously warned that the “age of pre-training” was nearing its end. He called training data the “fossil fuel” of AI, said we had reached “peak data”, and reminded everyone that “there’s only one Internet”. There were many LinkedIn experts who believed in this, and I believe

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In 2017, the Merriam-Webster’s word of the year was “Feminism”, in 2020 it was “Pandemic” and in 2021 it was “Vaccine”. In 2025 the word of the year is “Slop”. The modern definition of “Slop” is “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence”. Maybe you experienced

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More JUICE! GPT-5.2 was launched last week, and this is the first model built with the new datacenters using the latest NVIDIA Blackwell chipsets. GPT-5.2 beats over 70% of human experts in office tasks in the GDPval benchmark, it hallucinates 30% less than GPT-5, and it can use it’s entire 400kb context window for extreme

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In fall 2001 I got my first Apple computer, the Titanium PowerBook G4, and I have since then owned and used many Mac computers and PCs throughout the years. Even if I have not always felt aligned with the design decisions Apple were making, at least you could feel that there was a strong design

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The past week I have had lots of fun creating complex drawings in the style of Jan Van Haasteren and in the style of Middle-earth travel guides with Google’s latest image generation model Nano Banana Pro. This is the first time I have really felt that an image generator not only understands what I am

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Last week Google finally launched their long-awaited model Gemini 3 Pro, together with the outstanding new Nano Banana Pro “image processor”. I’m not even sure what I should call Nano Banana Pro, it can do things with images I didn’t think was possible, and looking at the things it can produce it really gives you

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The past few months I have talked to several large companies with old legacy systems that need to be modernized. The question most of them have is: when can we start using AI to migrate all our old code into a modern Java or C# tech stacks? For complex systems I do not think AI

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Last week was one of the lowest-activity AI weeks in a while, but I predict the activity will ramp up significantly in the next couple of weeks. Google is planning to release Gemini 3 Pro very soon which is looking to be a real powerhouse with a 1 million token context window and unmatched agentic capabilities. Unmatched,

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Last week Cursor, Cognition and Canva announced their own custom foundation models to reduce their dependencies of Anthropic, Google and OpenAI. Being dependent on other companies AI models to do their processing, the more features these SaaS companies add to their products the harder it will be to negotiate pricing with the model providers. Without

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