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Sometime in January of 2026, the raw capability of LLMs in relation to software engineering crossed a critical threshold. Until that point, I had not primarily been using LLMs to generate code. Instead, I would write the code “by hand”, but when faced with a specific syntax question or (gasp) a need to craft a SQL statement, I would shoot off a question to my favorite LLM. I had tried using LLMs for end-to-end code generation, but found the tradeoff not worth it. While they generally produced code faster than I did, they produced code of a low quality: poorly organized for sure – monstrous methods and plenty of “run-on sentences”, but also more often than not with obvious and non-obvious bugs. Thus, completing a ticket often took about the same time with and without an agent writing the code. ...

I’m soon coming up on 6 months of unemployment. Half a year of trying to be an entrepreneur full-time. I still haven’t made it, unfortunately. I have however learnt a ton. This post is a reflection on my entrepreneurial journey thus far and a discussion of how I formed my entrepreneurial meta-strategy. Learning how to entrepreneur Before starting my entrepreneurial journey, I figured there were more or less correct ways of doing things. ...

Recent life I recently found myself with more free time and less direction than I’ve had since joining the prestigious ranks of real adults sometime in my early 20s. It’s been fun. I spent the first week doing absolutely nothing productive. I tented for 4 days somewhere in the forest in southern Sweden while attending a techno festival, spent a combined 20 hours on trains to and from Cologne in order to attend a Denzel Curry concert with an old friend, and started reading a new book, Growth, so far so good! ...

Starting as an intern Exactly 3 years ago, on the 13th of June 2022, I started my internship at Spotify. At the time I was based in Stockholm, on my way to finishing up a master’s degree in machine learning at KTH (hah!). Spotify had been my dream company for a while before that. It was a tech product I genuinely loved using as a consumer, a huge success story closely affilliated with my own university, and it was chock full of cool engineering and ML feats obvious to any tech-literate user of the app. ...