Author: Johan Sanneblad
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 7
If you ask the AI coding tool Claude Code to commit source code directly to GitHub, it will by default add itself as an author with the commit message: “Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus”. Most people I work with do not trust Claude to commit anything at all by itself, and those who do trust it typically…
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 6
“My name is Steve Chen. I was the CTO and one of the co-founders of YouTube. I love what you’ve built with Notebook Navigator 2.2! I wanted to send out a note of gratitude.” Steve contacted me last Tuesday, and is just one of hundreds of users that have reached out to me saying that…
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 5
Can you tell if a video is real or AI generated? Runway, the company behind the AI video model Gen-4.5 just did a test where they let 1,043 participants watch two five-second clips, where the first frame of the real video was used to create the animated AI-video. In this study, less than 10% could…
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 4
Last week Anthropic launched a new feature called Cowork: “Give Claude access to a folder, set a task, and let it work”. You can ask Claude to go through your receipts and give you a summary, sort your files, find a specific text in a note you have somewhere on your desktop, create a presentation…
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 3
In an interview with CNBC, AMD CEO Lisa Su said that she expects us to go from “a billion active users in AI today to over 5 billion active users over the next five years”, requiring compute to increase 100 times to meet demand. This is what all major AI companies are working toward; a…
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Tech Insights 2026 Week 2
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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Tech Insights 2026 Week 1
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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Tech Insights 2025 Week 52
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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Tech Insights 2025 Week 51
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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Tech Insights 2025 Week 50
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…