Software talk with skeptical patience.
Kodsnack follows developers, researchers, and conference speakers through calm, technically literate conversations. The show favors lived experience over slogans, moving from code editors, AI tools, and operating systems into the politics and habits surrounding software work.
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Kodsnack is a Swedish technology show built around patient conversation rather than quick takes. Its center of gravity is programming, but the episodes treat software as something embedded in work habits, politics, tools, conferences, and personal taste. One conversation may start with the question of whether AI should be introduced at all, before moving into socio-technical systems and the politics carried by technical artifacts. Another may circle around developers being expected to use AI tools, what that expectation actually measures, and how fragile that workflow becomes when it depends on a hosted endpoint. The show is interested in hype, but not in riding it. It keeps asking what works in practice. Guests bring specific worlds with them: AI policy, self-driving vehicles, dark patterns, Unity projects, esoteric programming languages, remote editing setups, and the daily frustrations of modern developer tooling. The tone is calm and often wry. It can be blunt about bad software choices, yet the bluntness usually serves a larger point about control, reliability, and craft. Episodes frequently linger on the small technical details that reveal a bigger philosophy, such as installer behavior, SSO flows, local binaries, screen setups, or the difference between writing necessary code and writing too much code. Conference recordings add immediacy, with conversations shaped by keynotes, talks, and half-processed ideas from the event floor. The show also has a social backbone, with repeated references to its Slack community and listener support. It is not a tutorial show in the narrow sense. It is more like sitting beside experienced developers while they reason aloud. That makes it especially strong when the topic is unsettled, ambiguous, or overmarketed. Kodsnack is for listeners who like software talk with context, skepticism, and room to think.
Made for: For Swedish-speaking developers and technically curious listeners who enjoy reflective conversations about programming practice. It especially suits people interested in AI, tooling, software culture, and the gap between industry promises and daily work.
What sets it apart: Kodsnack stands out by letting technical conversations stay messy long enough to become useful. It connects code, tools, policy, conferences, and working habits without forcing every episode into a tidy lesson.
Kodsnack är ett poddradioprogram på svenska om utveckling, kodknackande och allt som hör därtill. Kodsnack drivs av Kristoffer Grönlund, Fredrik Björeman och Tobias Hieta
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Kodsnack connects code and developer tools to the workplace, policy, cost and maintenance decisions surrounding them.
Kodsnack treats software work as a lived practice, where code shares the conversation with management, hardware preferences, career uncertainty and the consequences of adopting new tools.
Self-sabotaged Mac updates meet the question you wish every AI rollout asked first: should we do this?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Kodsnack uses AI policy as a way into the politics built into technical systems.
Kodsnack opens by asking question zero: before anyone reaches for AI as a topic, should it be introduced at all. That framing gives the episode a clear starting point, and Petter, a researcher and Staff Scientist at AI Policy Lab under the Institution for Data Science, ties AI…
AI expectations, pricing shocks, and a sober look at what developers may soon be expected to do.
Fredrik and Bartek spend the conversation on what it now means to work as a developer when AI tools are becoming an expected background layer rather than an optional experiment.
A Mac upgrade gripe leads into a focused critique of Gram's app, CLI, and remote-server split.
An upgrade gripe gives the piece its first charge, with the speaker pointing to 300 new commits in Gramm and treating only two of them as sensible fixed bugs.
A grounded look at a programming path from Basic, Pascal, and Delphi to practical AI-assisted coding.
This episode follows a working programmer's path from Basic through Pascal and Delphi, then on to Unity, HTML, PHP, and AI-assisted coding. The throughline is practical rather than nostalgic: a collaboration with Givi in Allingsas helped bring Flygande mattan, and parts of…
A conversational episode about engineering management, changing OS preferences, and the pleasure of more screen space.
This episode opens with Champa Uchoa's January 16, 2026 text on ten years as an engineering manager, then follows the idea that the role can mean different things on different teams.
A grounded episode on when software consolidation clarifies a system and when it adds complexity.
KodSnack's conversation with Teresa Wu gives the word AI a useful trim, treating it less as a magic label than as an umbrella that may split into smaller fields such as cloud, security, fintech, and DevOps.
A measured look at AI hype, pricing shocks, and the new expectations forming around developers.
Fredrik and Bartek shape the episode around Bartek's 20 years in software, drawing on his time as a developer, tech leader, architect, and leadership figure, along with two economic cycles he has already lived through.
JavaScript news with developer judgment.
Straight talk and real stories about breaking into code.
Java fundamentals and developer careers, explained plainly.
Teresa Wu joins Kodsnack to discuss frontend DevOps and AI's impact on development.
Fredrik, a developer with 20 years of experience, discusses his recent decoupling of personal identity from his programming career with guest Bartek.
Kodsnack opens with question zero: before asking how AI should be introduced, the conversation first asks whether it should be introduced at all.
Fredrik welcomes Bartek back to Kodsnack.
A Mac upgrade headache sets the opening tone.
Göran Hjalmarsson berättar hur programmet som började som en skolprodukt växte till omkring 65 rum, fick trigonometri, biljard och enarmade banditer, och till slut blev något han säger att han ägnat halva sitt liv åt.
This episode features an interview with Sergès Goma about his conference presentation on dark patterns in tech, discussing the event's future-forward themes and diverse topics.
Kodsnack opens on Champa Uchoa's text, "Things I've Learned in 10 Years as an Engineering Manager." The host likes the point that engineering manager is not a fixed or universally defined role and spends time on how the same title can mean very different work depending on the team and the situation.
This episode explores the creation of the Rockstar esoteric programming language and discusses how Latin's inflectional grammar inspired unique programming approaches.
This episode features an interview with Simon Wardley discussing his use of maps and models to challenge narratives, the distinction between graphs and maps, and topics like architecture as an illusion and vibe coding.
This episode features a discussion with Justyna Zander about integrating emotional intelligence into self-driving vehicles using AI technologies.
This episode features a conversation with Teresa Wu discussing AI's evolution and personal travel experiences between Copenhagen and Malmö.
Grace Jansen discusses her approach of drawing analogies between biology and technology, such as comparing reactive systems to beehives, while sharing her experience speaking at a conference in Sweden.