thefourthchime

In the last 20 years, the EU has grown about %1.5. In 2005, the EU accounted for 25% of the global GDP. Now it's about 17%.

GDP per capita in the United States is about twice of Europeans. 85k per capital in the US, vs 43k in the EU.

The only tech companies I can think of in Europe are Spotify and Umm.. sure there are others..

One brightside is Sweden who has decided to embrace capitalism and has turned themselves around.

the quote: "Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome" is something that the regulators have never heard.

What they see is people burning clothes and they say "we can't do that". The result won't be that these clothes will somehow be put back on people, clearly that's not economical or this wouldn't be a problem.

Instead, they'll be put on ships and burned elsewhere, or buried, or something even worse.

I'm pretty sure they're docking the ship right now.

The EU is doing everything it can to fail. The only thing that seems to be coming out of the EU in the last 20 years is regulation. It seems to be its only invention and contribution to itself. They have no upper bounds on creativity when it comes to creating rules that disrupt business.

I can't tell if this is coming from jealousy or incompetence—or perhaps a combination of both. They see the rest of the world, especially the United States and China, getting richer and more advanced, and their response seems to be to shield themselves from it instead of competing.

Volkswagen in Germany is going to lay off 100,000 jobs and shutter plants. Half of the EU is recklessly in debt. And Germany is supposed to be the good country with the good economy.

Terra xhigh is really good!

It’s my go to normal stuff. It’s fast, balanced and if you want a better researched response you can click “think harder”

I'm curious how well it'll work in the real world, but I would be ecstatic if I could ditch all my Whisper apps.

- transcribed using MacWhisper.

This guy has fabricated things in the past, I would take this with a grain of salt.

I echo this entirely, brother. I think a lot of us developers have a lot of ideas that were unrealized, and now we have this opportunity to do it. And any time an LLM is sitting idle, it feels like we're wasting our time. Why aren't we having it built something for us? Currently, I work on about three projects at work at the same time and about four personal projects at the same time. My day just zips by. I'll burn four hours without even thinking about it. It's exhausting but exhilarating. I do wonder if burnouts in the future though.

The AI-Maxing copy on the website kind of gave it away. Doesn't mean is not a great app though!

I own a Tesla not a Rivian, but I agree with you here. As a software engineer, I find CarPlay to be a tack-on solution. For that, it works well, but only because the base infotainment systems on almost every OEM are utter trash.

Something that I don't believe is discussed enough, especially here, is how bad 90% of software is in general. Software from non-software companies, almost without exception, is just junk. It has stuff tacked garbage from a partner deals, confusing organization that seemed like a product or marketing guy that never used the software. I could go on.

The exceptions, of course, are Rivian and Tesla, who actually make first-class software. On them, I don't miss it, And actually, I would be slightly annoyed if they had it, simply because it breaks up the consistency with infotainment.

It's just the first layer and there are multiple layers underneath this that we don't know about.

As a side note, I have a pet theory that one of the reasons that OpenAI and Anthropic are okay with the latest models not being released is to prevent distillation.

I think they want to wait a couple months and see if the Chinese models continue to keep catching up or if their gains are really just because they're distilling the frontier models.

Same. I asked it my Pac-Man question and it was the first to DNF.

It just goes off getting confused about how to design the map for 15 minutes and then times out.

I gave it my standard:

"Make a pac-man game in a single html page"

It went off and argued with itself for 20 minutes about how to lay out the map and then timed out.

I’m a huge fan, I’ve been wanting to know into the internals. Look forward to digging in.

I work in the media industry, there hasn't been any hiring in years, since before covid and certainly not after. Sometimes there are layoffs and they shake up middle management, but my boss doesn't even want to be come a SVP because those are the ones they axe when they restructure.

We're all just hunkering down.

it must be

giving it a shot. It looks pretty good!

A lot of the copy also looks like AI.

The text (especially the "About" section, key concerns, and Erin’s quote) reads like strong AI-generated or heavily AI-edited copy. It has that clean, structured, persuasive style common in tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. Many observers on Reddit and elsewhere noted it “looks 100% designed by Claude.”

Outside of specialized apps for work, I think ninety-percent of apps will probably go away and become MCP plugins. I would much prefer it.

Maybe I'm weird, but I find AI incredibly useful.

I've barely used Google for over 2 years.

I barely driven myself in a year.

I haven't written code in 6 months.

Yes. And as the models get better, it works better. But at one point you do have to understand the code because it's also just guessing as to what your actual intentions are.

It doesn't know what mess you want to clean up. A lot of times AI just starts making up new patterns on top of other patterns and having backwards compatibility between the two. How does it know which one you actually like?

Pretty much. We're intensely vibe coding something that has gone through so many requirement changes. The code has become very gnarly. I took a stab at basically one prompt rewrite of the whole thing. And it wasn't there, but it was 80% of the way there. and a hell of a lot cleaner.

My company and my buddy's company, we're experiencing the same thing. We are trying to fire a SAAS vendor and it's become the hot new project. Now we to these meetings with 50 different people that are allegedly stakeholders, two or three product managers who have already vibcoded their version of something.

Ultimately, if you want to move fast, it's better just to have one engineer vibe coding something. but, that engineer is under so much pressure. Now he's got a legacy mode and another legacy mode because the requirements keep changing. And now there's a deadline in four weeks.

This all could work just fine, but the ungodly amount of attention that this world is getting puts too many cooks in the kitchen, which is always a recipe for disaster.

It's like they TRYING to get people to move to GPT 5.4, which I trust far more at coding. It's just slightly more annoying as an agent with codex.

Wow, that sounds like you have a astoundingly terrible EVP.

5.4 is smarter than Opus when it comes to really figuring out a problem. Codex agentic stuff takes forever though.

hahah. It's slop all the way down.

I didn't get into the details too much, but I kept thinking, why isn't he just having an agent discover things from various data sources? I've had much better success with that.

The workflow that got me into Cloud Code was instructing it that whenever I create a new feature or bug, it should make a new git worktree. And then when I'm done, merge that back to main and delete the worktree. That enables me to open up three plus different Cloud Code's and work on three different things at the same time. As long as they're not directly overlapping, it works great.