Posts by Year

2025 5
2024 5
2023 13
2022 5
2021 1

2025

The Illusion of Thinking ↗

June 16, 2025

Interesting research from Apple Machine Learning Research asks the obvious but still-open question: do longer “chains of thought” mean “actual” “reasoning”, or are Large Reasoning...

io ↗

May 22, 2025

So two of the brightest minds on this planet have come together and founded a product company as friends. Very curious to learn about —...

A conversation with Jony Ive ↗

May 15, 2025

A rare one-hour interview with one of the greatest designers of our time. As Ive points out, a product always reflects the values, sophistication, and...

On the State of Apple Intelligence

April 15, 2025

Many articles have been written about the state of Apple Intelligence. Let me quote a few that I find insightful, starting with Gruber’s ‘Something is...

ELEGNT: Luxo by Apple ↗

February 17, 2025

Rare look into the future through Apple’s machine learning researchers. Super cool to see Pixar’s Luxo come to life. The video demonstration is definitely worth...

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2024

Building a business out of LLMs ↗

December 4, 2024

Interesting perspective and line of thinking from Cal Paterson. He motivates why ‘industry structure’ is the main driver for business success and why things don’t...

LLMs don’t do ‘formal reasoning’↗

October 15, 2024

Relevant new research on LLMs from 6 AI researchers at Apple, challenging a dominant opinion and answering an important question: can Large Language Models (LLMs)...

Apple Intelligence ↗

June 15, 2024

And there it was, during this week’s WWDC: Apple’s AI strategy. Once more, Apple surpassed the (already high) expectations of many. Once more, they demonstrated...

MM1: Apple’s generative AI LLM ↗

March 23, 2024

This month, Apple published a paper announcing and detailing ‘MM1’, its own generative AI LLM. MM1 appears to be comparable to market-leading models on several...

New Class of Antibiotics Discovered Using AI ↗

January 9, 2024

Now this is impactful use of AI: researchers find the first new class of antibiotic in more than half a century.

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2023

New study finds: AI still relatively stupid ↗

December 5, 2023

Meta has a new LLM benchmark focusing on things people are good at but AI systems still find hard. Researchers show that human respondents obtain...

Nyenrode guest lecture on Data & AI

November 23, 2023

This week I had the opportunity to guest lecture a group of healthcare executives at Nyenrode Business University on ‘Data & AI’ as means to...

An electric propulsion system… from Apple ↗

September 19, 2023

Apple continues to publish patents related to its secret (not-so-secret) car project.

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon ↗

September 7, 2023

Interesting piece if you want to understand a little bit more about the inner workings of LLMs without being hindered by all kinds of mathematical...

Why do some interactions feel amazingly great and satisfying?↗

July 12, 2023

Very well-written and illustrated article on the invisible details of interaction design. Why is it that some interactions feel amazingly great and satisfying? It sheds...

Microsoft’s AI strategy: Copilot everywhere ↗

June 6, 2023

Microsoft has been relatively late regarding recent platform shifts. Microsoft isn’t planning to be late with the most recent platform shift: AI. In fact, Nadella...

Why computers won’t make themselves smarter ↗

May 17, 2023

How much can you optimize for generality? To what extent can you simultaneously optimize a system for every possible situation, including situations never encountered before?...

Is there a way for AI to do something other than serve capitalism?↗

May 8, 2023

The doomsday scenario is […] AI-supercharged corporations destroying the environment and the working class in their pursuit of shareholder value.

What happens when you teach an AI how to fish?

May 1, 2023

As I wrote earlier, it’s practically impossible to keep up with all developments in AI. Microsoft, Google, and others are caught in a race to...

Another reason to ditch TikTok from your life: it deteriorates your memory ↗

April 19, 2023

Remarkable results from a study on the impact of social media: short video streams (e.g. TikTok) have a significant detrimental impact on our prospective memory—our...

Industry races ahead of academia ↗

April 12, 2023

Stanford has released the 2023 edition of its annual AI Index Report. #1 takeaway: Industry races ahead of academia. Also: interest from policymakers in AI...

Have we reached Artificial General Intelligence yet?

April 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is moving so fast it’s impossible to keep up. The latest large language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI, GPT-4, was trained using...

Be more than a product owner — Start product thinking ↗

February 14, 2023

Finally took the time to write a piece based on my talk at Tweakers and DevOpsDays Amsterdam last year.

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2022

Great to be on stage again

June 28, 2022

What a whirlwind week—I had a blast speaking at two excellent community events back to back last week: DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2022 and the Tweakers Developer...

Speaking at Tweakers Developers Summit 2022 ↗

June 14, 2022

Next week Thursday, I’ll be speaking at the Tweakers Developers Summit 2022! 🗣 Very much looking forward to meeting the community. I’ll be advocating a...

Speaking at DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2022 ↗

June 9, 2022

In 2 weeks, @devopsams turns 10! 🥳 Very much looking forward to giving a talk in real life again. I’ll be advocating a product mindset...

New website ✨

May 11, 2022

Today I launched my new website. It’s based on Jekyll and Github Pages, so no database and full Markdown support (yay!). To have some content...

Making IT at the heart of business ↗

April 8, 2022

So, how exactly do we as Schuberg Philis bridge the gap between business and technology and make IT at the heart of business? Read more...

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2021

BizDevOps: The way to bring technology to the heart of business ↗

December 17, 2021

DevOps practices have had a huge positive impact on teamwork. But where’s business? In this article, we show how we’re going beyond the success of...

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