Jens Mönig

Snap! is designed to support functional programming, higher order functions and custom control structures snap.berkeley.edu

This is incredible!

Last night at SAP HQ in Walldorf I first tested the development version of a new image composition extension for @SnapCloud out in the wild with our campus ambassadors. Try it yourself! #present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Function%20Compositions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev/s…

GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/gen…

I’m super excited about making first-class-ness first-class in @SnapCloud v12: Create abstract data types (ADTs) and domain-specific languages (DSLs) with dynamic, graphical widgets for data structures ranging from fractions and shapes to melodies, data bases and neural networks.

Going to SIGCSE TS next week? Consider attending our tutorial session: A Hands-on and Interactive Introduction to the Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence using Snap!, and our BOF: A Community of Snap! Educators – New Features and Tools for Teaching AI sigcse2026.sigcse.org/details/sigcse…

New art project. Train and inference GPT in 243 lines of pure, dependency-free Python. This is the *full* algorithmic content of what is needed. Everything else is just for efficiency. I cannot simplify this any further. gist.github.com/karpathy/8627f…

Personally Meaningful Data to Motivate Learning in Data Science and AI computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/per…

Happy 79th birthday to Gerry Sussman, the MIT prof. who co-wrote "the Wizard Book” (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) w/Hal Abelson & Julie Sussman in 1984. Read it for free here: bit.ly/4jtzw7g

Kudos to the #FOSDEM team, my talk “Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!” from last Sunday in Brussels is already online: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/…

Now, Jens @moenig and BernatRomagosa at @SnapCloud workshop on #FoxdemJunior2026

Heading to #FOSDEM this weekend? I’ll be giving a talk about neural networks in @SnapCloud in the Educational Devroom and hang out with folks at @fosdem Jr.: fosdem.org/2026/schedule/… Don’t hesitate to approach me to chat about Snap!, blocks programming or the state of CSEd!

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Look, Ma: The latest issue of @ACMInroads features an interview with me. It’s open-access, so you can read up on my incoherent blabberings and old-dude anecdotes about block based programming & friends. dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114…

January - named after Janus, one of Rome‘s oldest and most popular deities, looking both back and forward, the god of change which they aptly put on their … change! #HappyNewYear

Snap! is now accessible in 48 languages. Thank you, @serge___faure, for contributing the Vietnamese translation as latest addition over the holidays! Now live in @SnapCloud v12 beta: #lang:vi&editMode" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev/s…

Render unto Casar! Turtle geometry with a twist: Let sprites draw, stamp & write onto each other. Coming to @SnapCloud v12 next year. Play with the beta now: #present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Render%20unto%20Caesar&editMode" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev/s…

also check out Michael Kölling's lovely remix of my project in his fabulous Strype programming system: linkedin.com/posts/kolling_…

Light a candle with @SnapCloud ! #present:Username=jens&ProjectName=Flame" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">snap.berkeley.edu/snap/snap.html…

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

@guzdial w00t! Tamaraaaaa!

Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints computinged.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/dr-…