Henrik Varmer

Senior Director, Data & AI @ VELUX

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@omgsidewalks Food.

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@omDSB Kan i give en eller anden form for timeline så man ved hvor man står? Der er over 2 timers forsinkelse allerede, og I har ingen opdatering endnu?

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@banedanmark Kan i give en eller anden form for timeline så man ved hvor man står? Der er 2 timers forsinkelse allerede, og I har ingen opdatering endnu?

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@rezoundous Yes

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@kristianleth Meget tæt på 100%

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@haha_girrrl This meme was funny 5 years ago. Now the website is just something Claude builds autonomously for a few usd in tokens.

Price even seems amazing now.

[Jared Friedman @snowmaker]

Software engineering changed more in the last 3 months than the preceeding 30 years.

Everything about running a software company needs to be rethought from first principles.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow.

Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes.

As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now.

It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

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@Sandsnake7 @Discord_Lies Oh so literally everything humanity makes is the same and has the same level of danger. Got it. 🙄

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@kristianleth Missing the point 🥲

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@ericweinstein Ability to endure contradiction is a high sign of culture

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@tunguz True.

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@Sam_kuyp The math quite literally checks out

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@rand_longevity Take:
Magnesium Glycinate
Vitamin D
Creatine
Collagen

Have:
Kids

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@tyler_m_john Like all popular google products this will be eventually be killed. And if they shipped Jesus they’d just end up killing him too.

See: https://t.co/pKT3HAJKbR

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@aakashgupta An LLM wrote this post.

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@rand_longevity Collagen. High dose.

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@DearS_o_n Lifting heavy objects

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@kalashvasaniya Many good points here