Kristofer Palmvik.
E-mail
kristofer@palmvik.sePhone
+46 705 886414
Postal address
Kristofer PalmvikHamngatan 16 D
582 26 Linköping
SWEDEN
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About Kristofer Palmvik
I love to develop useful and cool things with lots of data. Love to work with other people. Love to travel the world.
MSc Information Technology with specialization in Media Informatics. Professional experience of software engineering, ranging from modern frontend web to high-performance databases and cloud infrastructure.
Interested in working with product development in a web based environment. Quick to learn new skills and handle new situations. Thrives in a demanding environment together with a great team.
Aim to be a valuable part of a small company and develop a world leading product or service with high quality and professionalism.
See my professional experience and current position on LinkedIn. Let's connect!
Currently reading
I enjoy reading books about a wide range of subjects.
- Herr Saitos ambulerande biograf by Annette Bjergfeldt,
- Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp, and
- AI Engineering: Building Applications with Foundation Models by Chip Huyen.
A recent favorite book is Världsdanaren (Imperiets arvingar, #6) by Oskar Källner.
My notes
Observations on building software, working with teams, and exploring the world. A mix of professional thoughts and personal logs.
- 2026‑05‑16
A podcast that creates itself, in a different voice
My notes now become 5-minute podcast episodes overnight, written and voiced by a chain of AI agents. The episodes sometimes contradict my own thinking, which is exactly the point.
- 2026‑05‑04
Claude knows FFmpeg, but it has no idea where the video is
Testing an AI video editor revealed that Claude writes flawless FFmpeg commands, but made assumptions around file system paths.
- 2026‑04‑21
The manual is missing – we are writing it
The feeds make it easy to feel left behind when it comes to AI. But history proves the hype is usually louder than reality. Since there is no manual for this era, trying things and sharing even the mundane experiences could be useful. We are writing the manual.
- 2026‑04‑08
The AI writes the code, but the team decides the direction
I have barely typed a single line of code at work for more than a year. Using LLMs and AI agent has changed a lot. But we still need the collaboration in a great team to make sure we go in the right direction.
- 2026‑04‑05
Deconstructing LinkedIn with systems thinking
Stop reading LinkedIn at face value and use systems thinking to map out the consequences and mental models the author missed.
- More of my notes...
Whitebrd.
A public collection of links I'm reading and referencing since 2008. Articles, tools, and resources relevant to my work and interests.
- 2026‑05‑17
The Context Flywheel: Why the Best AI Coding Teams Will Win on Context
Over time, the flywheel produces something that's hard to replicate: structured organisational context. Not a wiki that nobody reads. Not documentation that's perpetually out of date. Living, tested, versioned context that coding agents actively consume and that humans actively maintain. Knowledge that shows up directly in the quality and consistency of every line of code your agents produce.tessl.io - 2026‑05‑17
Mythos finds a curl vulnerability
My personal conclusion can however not end up with anything else than that the big hype around this model so far was primarily marketing. I see no evidence that this setup finds issues to any particular higher or more advanced degree than the other tools have done before Mythos. Maybe this model is a little bit better, but even if it is, it is not better to a degree that seems to make a significant dent in code analyzing.daniel.haxx.se - 2026‑05‑14
Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently
Standards were supposed to eliminate browser-specific code. We dug ourselves out of the IE era, celebrated, and then built exactly the same hole again around a different browser. Only now the browser-specific code lives in the browsers that aren’t dominant, patching over a web built for the one that is. Sites I’ve worked on are in these files. Yours might be too. And the lists are getting longer.denodell.com - 2026‑05‑09
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device
Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. The file is named weights.bin. It lives in OptGuideOnDeviceModel. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it.thatprivacyguy.com - 2026‑05‑08
The Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory
I’ve now seen dozens of companies struggling to put AI to work writing code, and each one has moved through five clear tiers of automation. That felt familiar, and I realized that the federal government had been there first – but for cars. In 2013, the NHTSA created the five levels of driving automation1. This was helpful, because while the highest level at the time was only level 22, it let everyone have a common language for both where things were, and where things were going.danshapiro.com - More of my collected links...