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Marcus Johansson

Writer

Marcus Johansson

Tinkers with AI and Drupal

About Marcus

Hey, I'm Marcus. I work with AI and Drupal, and I live in Berlin, Germany.

I am one of the tech leads of the AI Initiative, and one of the maintainers of the AI module and many other AI-related modules in the Drupal space. I mainly do open source work. My company, FreelyGive, has people that are way smarter than me, so if you need help with AI, reach out to them.

Before Drupal, I was a streaming engineer at Oliver Schrott Kommunikation, working with Mercedes car releases among other things. Earlier still I worked for Nokia and Axel Springer, and freelanced through my own company, Podnix. In some sense the streaming engineer role was set for life in the AI era: live streaming runs on hardware, and hardware has problems you cannot prompt your way out of. It is like always having a captain ready, even when the ship sails on autopilot. I still thought getting to know AI was more important, and Drupal was perfectly built for it.

I used to record short videos on workflows-of-ai.com. Now I try to diversify with blog posts and longer write-ups.

Every post here starts as my rambling notes. AI structures them and writes a first draft, I prompt it to use interactive components, and at the end I read through it and rewrite it until it says what I want it to say.

Latest posts by Marcus

Drupal AI

How I vibe-configed this website in under 10 hours

I built this site with AI agents by configuring Drupal modules: only 0.14% of the PHP is custom code. How it was done, and how it compares to Express.js.

Marcus Johansson Oct 10, 2026 12 min read
Pixel-art developer opening a wooden crate labelled AI 1.5.0; a chat bubble, a shield with a check mark, a magnifying glass with an up arrow and a stack of cards with a lightning bolt fly out, while three small boxes with wings fly away.
Release notes

Drupal AI 1.5.0 is out

Drupal AI 1.5.0: ChatProcessor and ChatMemory, batch embeddings, streaming guardrails, an AI reranker, and the deprecations to act on before 1.6.0.

Marcus Johansson Oct 9, 2026 11 min read
Pixel-art spoof of the two buttons meme: a hand hovers between an XTRUE and an XFALSE button while the blog's developer sweats and wipes his forehead.
Evals

Decision models and Drupal: a match made in heaven

AI Validations turns a field rule into a yes or no question for an AI model. A decision model, Jev, against GPT-5.6 Sol on 1,500 brand checks: accuracy, speed and cost.

Marcus Johansson Sep 30, 2026 15 min read
AI Observability with Grafana
Workflows

AI Observability with Grafana

Send Drupal AI calls over OpenTelemetry to Grafana, Tempo, Mimir and Loki to see latency, tokens, cost and agent traces. Set up in one command.

Marcus Johansson Jul 29, 2026 2 min read
Find your images
Workflows

Find your images

Two Drupal recipes add an image search agent: AI describes and tags your media, then a database or vector search finds images by what they show.

Marcus Johansson Jun 9, 2026 1 min read
AI 1.4.0 Released
Workflows

AI 1.4.0 Released

Drupal AI 1.4.0: global, input length and streaming guardrails, ECA rerouting and failover, agent skills, chat processors and automator actions.

Marcus Johansson May 27, 2026 1 min read

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