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I don’t know about the stores in Sweden but the ones in Luxembourg and Belgium are Delhaize —- very large chain. It’s not a n00b store owner, but a multinational with an IT team [0].

0: https://jobs.delhaize.be/be/fr/c/it-jobs

I wonder if the companies affected this time missed the news about the French attack a few weeks back?

> I am capable of paying the AI provider myself.

If that was true then slack, linear, … would be out of business.

Yes, anyone can pay the provider, but not everyone can ask the right questions, followup, generally give the question the attention it deserves.

There are heaps of problems with academia, and poor writing is just one of them. It existed pre AI. Whoever produced slop pre-AI now produces more of it. The good ones still stand out.

do you have a rec for a safari reader like extension?

thanks for the recommendation, i was a bit skeptical because i wasn't happy with the firefox ui/ux and i had a vague recollection it destroy battery life

nevertheless, i've installed zen on a modern mbp pro and so far really like it

the biggest miss is the little arc (there's the glance feature, but it only works when navigating from within existing pages)

i don't miss ai crap at all -- i'm an AI pilled SWE, but claude code/t3 (with their build it browsers) + grok-bot style agent cover all the bases for me

will try to keep it for a week and see

In Poland everyone uses Blik, recently even Revolut (a popular pan-EU neobank) started supporting it for transactions in Poland. It’s trusted, available for 10+y and generally a successful project.

I don’t think it ever tried expanding outside of Poland though.

When it comes to Wero—I’m not sure. My bank recently replaced “payconiq” with it, and I don’t see any benefits or new features and the app seems amateurish.

I guess the single market is not really “single” in the US sense.

https://www.blik.com/en (source: I’m Polish, but moved abroad ~4y ago)

I don’t know much about your use case but in case you need some inspiration shout out to t3 codes

the op was from sweden, not bosnia though; and surely if there's no impact of the trade war and tariffs why to put them up in the first place?

Norway proves that cold is not a problem—it’s a matter of incentives

Very informative page vs the recent grok release

What's a good RSS service / client nowadays?

For me it works well for agentic coding tasks and terminal/unix/bash (in cursor and grok build); it's also token efficient and cheaper than gpt 5.6. It's def not as good as Fable for me (I haven't used Astra much, can't comment). So it's not the cheapest, not the most capable, but it has a good mix of it for my backend, go, infra work.

The voice is the same AI slop as the others imho.

(This is about Grok 4.6, I didn't test 4.7 yet).

edit: clarified I mean agentic coding tasks

the webpage fills vibecoded in the worst way tbh; i don't think that's attractive to the current gen of emacs users

maybe it targets net new users?

What's the relationship between MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com) and DuckLabs?

super interesting, i really wanted to try waymo but just never had the opportunity; maybe in Munich then

also, uber (in partnership with pony.ai and verne, a Croatian startup) launched robotaxis in Zagreb a week ago https://www.reuters.com/technology/uber-launches-autonomous-...

so waymo/Munich is in fact the second in the EU; also they are playing it safe

> In the coming weeks, you’ll start to see Waymo vehicles on the streets of Munich where we’ll begin driving manually across the city. We are taking a rigorous, phased approach that starts with high-definition mapping of local street networks and testing with trained autonomous specialists behind the wheel. This validation period will ensure the Waymo Driver adapts seamlessly to Munich’s distinct driving conditions before we aim to open commercial ride-hailing to the public towards the end of 2027.

Have you ever visited the EU? Let me help you with the positives: common market, freedom of movement, rule of law, clean and beautiful cities and towns.

Also, war is costly—so is preparedness. Sometimes you don’t have a choice, e.g. you have a strong polity neighboring you that insists your are by gods grace their zone of influence.

I’m sad about nuclear to, but that’s on a culture in specific countries; not on Brussels.

Also, there’s heaps of mistakes in the regulations they churn, but that’s another story.

This article is about using LLMs to overfit for a specific benchmark (or make a custom software for niche use cases) though. Not about LLMs benchmaxxxing

at some point the kitchen knife analogy stops being useful

I don’t disagree with your point on Dario’s conflict of interest. I def think the models are expensive.

But why call them overpriced? Compared to what? Even if we take the margin reports at face value, we don’t know their training costs, etc.

Curious if this was more of an emotional take or if there’s actual evidence behind it.

Thank you for sharing that perspective; I'm from Eastern Europe and have had many Indian colleagues over the years (both in the EU and working remotely). I always wondered, given the super deep talent pool and many founders originally from India, why we don't see that many Indian companies on the global stage.

I guess Eastern Europe is a bit similar (in the fact that it had a brain drain; although maybe less so since my country joined the EU), but also have a unique challenges, i.e., the EU market is fragmented and the companies need to break into a market by market.

I don't know about their other software, but i'm a (paying) user of komoot. Komoot development has stagnated until bending spoons took over ~1y ago, see the recent https://www.komoot.com/product-updates

maybe it's case by case basis; i'm not an evernote user since the botched rewrite probably 10y ago at this point

what’s your point? i boycott russian companies, not american

if you don’t see the difference that’s on you

ok i admitted it, now call me a hypocrite

wish this was true, especially in my old gig (but i will not tell you which one, ha!)

i don’t know the devs motivation, but i own airpods and iphone

every few years or so i consider jumping ship to android, but i don’t want to buy another set of headphones for that — projects like this make the migration path easier before fully committing

Makes me sad to read it as an ex-Elastic employee.

AI is used to justify the redundancies, and the company still expects to grow in this fiscal year. In the SEC filling the specifically mention more “head count” in “go-to-market” roles [1].

> a reduction of approximately 7% of our workforce

> Advances in AI, automation, and technology are reshaping how work gets done, and we're changing with them. (…) That's what this reorganization is for: a simpler structure, with fewer layers, less complexity, and less friction.

> The changes we announced today are a sign of confidence in the business, not a retreat from it. We continue to invest in key growth areas and expect total headcount to grow year-over-year this fiscal year [the SEC filling says “ The Company plans to continue hiring in key strategic areas and locations, including continuing to grow headcount in customer-facing go-to-market functions, and expects total headcount to grow this fiscal year compared to last fiscal year, as it continues to invest in future growth opportunities”]

[1]: https://ir.elastic.co/financials/sec-filings/sec-filings-det...

You are right, of course, but in most jurisdictions the limit is lower than 25k EUR (e.g. in PL it's 5k PLN ~ 1.2k EUR; I believe in the UK it's even less), and you can trivially look up the capital of any business in the business registry online --> you can decide if you are dealing with a multi-million behemoth or a mom-and-pop shop.

It doesn’t tell anything about the valuation, but I prefer it over Claude Code, and I even stopped using JetBrains IDEs because of it.

Vs Claude Code: I like the option to change the models, as I often prefer ChatGPT or Composer to Opus. I have a slight preference towards TUI, but not so strong to drop the models.

Vs JetBrains. I really love JetBrains but the tab complete just works so well for me.

This is a good write-up and useful content, but edit-wise it could be simplified significantly. Additionally, phrases like "let that sink in" are characteristic of poor LinkedIn content, which is a bit of an irony :)

> Just be honest since the start

While I agree with the sentiment, keep in mind that circumstances change over the years. What made sense (and what you've believed in) a few years ago may be different now. This is especially true when it comes to business models.