Read the original version: The confession of an AI herder.

In my previous post, I published Feedback or Not?, a little gamification of a workshop-part on how to recognize and classify different types of feedback. Where I work now, we have a book club and we read Chapter 2 of “No Rules Rules” this week. It is the one named SAY WHAT YOU REALLY THINK (WITH POSITIVE INTENT) 1 and introduces the concept of Candor. But recognizing what something is is only the first step. The real power comes from learning how to label it tactically.

Have you ever received feedback that felt more like criticism than coaching? Or worse—feedback that crossed professional boundaries? The ability to distinguish between different types of feedback is a crucial skill in any workplace, yet it’s often taken for granted. That’s why I built Feedback or Not? — an interactive game designed to help developers, testers, managers, and team members develop their feedback recognition skills.

I have a lot of good memories of me and my brother sitting on the floor, playing with LEGO® when we were small. We still play with LEGO® as adults, if we get a chance and I use it from time to time to visualize things. When I got a question some time ago to explain some of the buzzwords that surrounds Datastorage, I used LEGO® as an example. This is a version of the explanation.

“Software is eating the world, but AI is going to eat software.” — Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA (2017/2024)

In the early morning light, on the second day of February, the Guardians of the Stages and the Squires of the Registration gathered at the building known as Waterfront to aid the invited Norns of the order of Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld to, for the 20th time, tell the stories of the past, the present and the future.

Hur många har koll på Javas @Contended annotation?

Java 25 was released in September 2025 but the rampdown phase for Java 26 has already begun and it will be generally available in the middle of March 2026.

During the fall, I worked for a Swedish government organisation that has a large legacy codebase. This is a summary of the findings and ways of working that emerged during the project.

Eller: Hur du kan sluta tänka på att skriva och bara… skriva.