I saw both films before reading it, but the book lets you inside the characters in a completely different way. You can really feel Herbert warning you about charismatic leaders, even while making them fascinating.
Thomas
Skjerdal

I build web things, keep up with whatever is happening in AI, and get distracted by ideas that sound too cool not to try.
- Role
- Developer, Omega 365
- Study
- M.Sc. Computer Science (AI), NTNU
- Based
- Trondheim · Bergen · Aurland
Selected
Work
Three personal projects.
Transformer
Question Answering
Built a 56M-parameter Transformer for extractive question answering, with 25+ tracked runs and a DistilBERT comparison on 3,000 examples.
Vague.no
Geography Quiz
A geography quiz built around an interactive 3D globe, with different quiz types, topics and ways to track progress.
Skins
Private Project
A tool that automatically monitors skin marketplaces, looks for undervalued items and notifies me when it finds one.
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About me
I am a developer at Omega 365 and an AI student at NTNU. I like building things, learning how they work, and seeing how far I can take an idea.
Background
I'm doing an M.Sc. in Computer Science at NTNU after a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering at HVL. The degrees lean heavily towards machine learning, although most of my day-to-day work is still good old-fashioned web development.
Focus
I like new things and I like ideas that make a room go, “that would be cool.” Right now I am exploring how LLMs and generative AI could be useful in Omega 365's estimating module. That is about as specific as I should be here.
Outside of code
Fishing is the main real hobby. The other interests and rabbit holes come and go; fishing has stuck.
Experience
I went from being the person fixing hotel systems while somebody waited in Flåm to building BIM tools and poking at practical uses for LLMs, with a few side quests in teaching and student media.
- 2024 — '26
Omega 365
2 rolesSoftware Developer
2024 — '26Working in the BIM module with Vue, TypeScript and SQL. I rebuilt a document-review tool for comparing revisions, and lately I have been exploring how LLMs and generative AI could be useful in estimating. The interesting details have to stay at work for now.
Summer Intern
2024Built a Vue web app from scratch while working through an intensive programme in SQL and database design.
- 2019 — 2023
Norway's Best
IT Technician
Kept payment systems, hotel systems, networks and servers running across several locations in Aurland, often while somebody was waiting for the fix.
Skills
Things I use, things I have used, and whatever I am currently messing around with. This is a working set, not a claim that I know everything about all of them.
- 01
Vue & TypeScript
What I use most at work - 02
SQL & PostgreSQL
Work, schemas and side projects - 03
Python & TensorFlow
ML projects and experiments - 04
LLM tools & harnesses
The current rabbit hole - 05
SvelteKit & Supabase
What Vague.no runs on, with plenty of AI help - 06
Java & Spring
Learned and taught at HVL
Some favorites
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the book.
Open the cover and draw something on a page.
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