What the Swarm was reading — week of May 22, 2026
Seventeen posts this week, and an unusually high share of them snowballed into real arguments in the thread. The through-line was hard to miss: the agentic development era is no longer a forecast —...
View ArticleBeyond #swarmalicious Weekly
This time, I thought I’d add a few points beyond what we covered in our Giant Swarm internal chat because there is a lot going on. So let’s start there. First off I need to start by that came out just...
View ArticleWhat the Swarm was reading — week of May 7, 2026
A quieter week in #swarmalicious — the May 1 long weekend ate most of the early days, and the channel only really woke up mid-week. Less volume, but the through-line is clearer for it: how agents talk...
View ArticleWhat the Swarm was reading — week of April 30, 2026
Another week, another scroll through #swarmalicious — our internal link-dump channel that has been quietly compounding signal since 2014. This week leaned heavier on the unease side of the ledger:...
View ArticleWeekly Dose of #swarmalicious
What the Swarm was reading — week of April 23, 2026We have a channel at Giant Swarm called #swarmalicious. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a link dump where people drop the things they stumbled...
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The Best AI Agent Is the One That Disappears
Here’s something most AI vendors won’t tell you: the goal shouldn’t be to run more AI. It should be to run less — eventually.Thanks for reading Oliver Thylmann's Musings! Subscribe for free to receive...
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AI Agents That Run Where Your Data Lives
There’s a pattern I keep seeing in enterprise AI conversations. Someone shows an impressive demo — an agent that analyses logs, responds to incidents, or automates a workflow. The room is excited. Then...
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Why AI Agents Need a Gatekeeper
Here’s the thing about AI agents in enterprise environments: the first question is almost never “which model should we use?”It’s “how do we let this thing touch our systems without losing...
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From Kubernetes to AI — Why This Is the Same Job
When people hear that Giant Swarm is building an AI Operating System, the first reaction is usually: “Wait, aren’t you the Kubernetes company?”Fair question. Let me explain why this isn’t the pivot it...
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Two Weeks in Chile
I just spent two weeks in Chile, meeting the extended family and visiting at least parts of a country that has found a place in my heart. It has to be said that always seeing mountains, and being close...
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Introducing Giant Swarm & Friends
In one of my previous articles, I mentioned our Giant Swarm & Friends events. So, I thought that now would be a good time to dig a little deeper into what these evenings are really all about and...
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Getting 65 People to Connect
I just returned from yet another Giant Swarm onsite. Most of you might wonder what this “onsite” is supposed to be, well, we are a fully remote company and hence doing an offsite really makes no sense,...
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Building meaningful connections is still broken
I am _very_ close to deleting my LinkedIn profile, and I know I am not alone. This is an ironic turn of events, given that what I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is building a real community...
View ArticleThank you, it’s a fascinating read.
Thank you, it’s a fascinating read. So much stuff to think about and the 70% of all births the next 50 years in Africa simply baffles my mind and forced me to really really think about what to do with...
View Article71 Things you need to know about the world
In my holiday, I read Numbers don’t Lie by Vaclav Smil and I loved it. There are some amazing nuggets of information in there and it’s easy enough to read. I will share a few that I found insightful.On...
View ArticleBook Review: Valley of Genius
The book Valley of Genius is, as the subtitle reads, the _Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)_. It’s a collection of stories around...
View ArticleBook Review: Straight to Hell
It was that time of year again, holidays, beach, sun, and I chose to finish some books. One of them was Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals, a book on the...
View ArticleBook Review: Click Here to Kill Everyone by Bruce Schneier
If you mix Bruce Schneier, one of the most published security experts out there, and a great title, you need to read and I was not let down.The premise of the book is simple:> Everything is becoming...
View ArticleBook Review: Body by Science by John R. Little and Doug McGuff
There are a lot of fitness books out there and I admittedly don’t know anymore where I got this one from, probably some podcast, but it is one of the best I have read, probably because I am a science...
View ArticleGoing through my saved posts
This always happens at the moment. I read something, save it somewhere and then it ends up on a giant list. From time to time I go through this and wonder how to share it and write down my thoughts and...
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