Category: Tech Insights

Last week OpenAI finally released their models on Amazon Bedrock, through both the API and the updated Codex app. This removes one of the biggest barriers for companies wanting to adopt GPT-5.5 and Codex but were held back by security, compliance, procurement, billing, and governance requirements. OpenAI worked closely with Amazon on the launch and…

Last week Cursor published the report Developer Habits, which aggregates data from their entire user base. The reports highlight two important matters that you must consider if you are working at C-level in a company with a software development department. The first one is that the top 10% of all developers (p90) have been pulling…

AI is getting smart in ways few people expected. For a long time, one of the standard criticisms of large language models was that they are just next-token prediction models. The argument was that they could only remix material they had already seen during training, and therefore could not produce genuinely novel content. Last week,…

Two weeks ago there were over 2,000 plugins waiting in queue to be manually reviewed for the popular markdown editor Obsidian. The introduction of coding agents and interest for Obsidian as a virtual brain led to an explosion of new plugins being written for the platform, and the review process up until last week was…

The past few months I have held full-day workshops in agentic engineering for hundreds of developers. And what strikes me every time is how little most people know about how AI models really work. And there’s a good reason for it. I still haven’t encountered any good management-level introduction videos that explain how these models…

GPT-5.5 is different. GPT-5.5 is the first model trained at OpenAI’s flagship Stargate site in Abilene, Texas, one of the supercomputing facilities funded by the $500 billion partnership between OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle. The site runs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, is powered by NVIDIA’s GB200 Blackwell systems, and is purpose-built to train frontier AI at…

Be prepared to forget everything you have learnt about how to maximize AI productivity by maximizing token usage. In the new token economy less is more, and the new top skill for AI engineers in 2026 will be how to optimize token usage to save cost. When OpenAI launched GPT-5.5 last Thursday they doubled the…

Two years ago in the summer of 2024 OpenAI launched their first ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. Back then we didn’t have agentic engineering, so the entire app was hand coded using the Apple Swift framework. It took five additional months for OpenAI to ship the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows, but that app was…

Last week I visited HumanX in San Fransisco, one of the largest AI conferences in 2026 with over 9,000 attendees, 500+ speakers and 400+ journalists. The conference is centered around deep-dive interviews with industry leaders and I visited 36 sessions over four days. It took the entire weekend to summarize all my notes. From the…

This is what I wrote in Tech Insights 2025 week 28 (July):“In 9-12 months I predict the models will be able to run autonomously for several hours, probably more, and will be able to produce much higher output quality than is possible today. Let’s say that a subscription for such a model costs $5,000 per…