Thriving (not surviving) in the age of AI

Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
Co-founder & Chief Scientist
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Thriving (not surviving) in the age of AI

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Short recap of Henrik's keynote at Nordic Software Summit: most companies are surviving AI, not thriving with it.

I gave a keynote today at Nordic Software Summit, Stockholm. Short version:

Most companies are surviving AI — rolling out chat tools, otherwise unchanged. Thriving means agents become real team members, across product, engineering, and operations. All three fronts. Not one.

Slides: How to Thrive (not just survive) in the Age of AI

Want your dev team building real agents, not just watching slides? We run a hands-on Agent-first Kickstart — I do the kickoff, then an Abundly developer builds with your team.

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AI Agents in Practice - Beyond the Prototype (slides and video from my AI Fokus talk)

AI Agents in Practice - Beyond the Prototype (slides and video from my AI Fokus talk)

Making an impressive prototype is easy. But what about the icky stuff that comes after - real-life deployment, scaling, monitoring, optimization, data architecture, safety?

What does 10x engineering productivity look like in practice?

What does 10x engineering productivity look like in practice?

Concrete and surprising data on how AI agents in Cursor and Abundly affect our productivity and quality.

Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
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How to not AI Slop

How to not AI Slop

Illustrated by two extremes: an unedited voice transcript of Henriks sitting on a rock talking, vs an AI-written article

Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
May 9, 2026
The Trust Ladder: how to onboard AI agents like new colleagues

The Trust Ladder: how to onboard AI agents like new colleagues

What data should we let them access? What if the agent gets it wrong? What holds organisations back is rarely the technology — it's the uncertainty. Think of AI agents as new colleagues and extend their remit one rung at a time, along the Trust Ladder.

Hans Brattberg
Hans Brattberg
April 24, 2026
The First 100 Days as an AI Lead: The Playbook in 5 Minutes

The First 100 Days as an AI Lead: The Playbook in 5 Minutes

You got the role. The mandate is clear: make AI agents work across the organization. Now what? A short teaser of the four conditions, three phases, and the patterns that separate AI initiatives that ship from the ones that stall — with a link to the full 100-day playbook.

Nils Janse
Nils Janse
April 24, 2026
Demo: The Human + AI-Agent Dev Team

Demo: The Human + AI-Agent Dev Team

How we use AI agents internally at Abundly - both for coding, backlog management and release management. It's a system of AI agents & human engineers working together, building on each other's strengths. This not only enables us to release a new version of our platform every day, but also makes the work really fun.

Henrik Kniberg
Henrik Kniberg
April 23, 2026