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puszczyk··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
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?
puszczyk··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Norway proves that cold is not a problem—it’s a matter of incentives
puszczyk··on MiMo v2.6
Very informative page vs the recent grok release
puszczyk··on Attention is all you have
What's a good RSS service / client nowadays?
puszczyk··on Grok 4.7
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

puszczyk··on NEO Emacs – GPU-Accelerated Emacs Powered by Rust
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?

puszczyk··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
What's the relationship between MotherDuck (https://motherduck.com) and DuckLabs?
puszczyk··on Servus München: Waymo Is Coming to Germany
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.

puszczyk··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
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.

puszczyk··on The Benchmarkpocalypse
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
puszczyk··on Grok 4.6
at some point the kitchen knife analogy stops being useful
puszczyk··on Our position on open-weights models
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.

puszczyk··on India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch
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.

puszczyk··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
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

puszczyk··on Advertise in ChatGPT
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

puszczyk··on OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
wish this was true, especially in my old gig (but i will not tell you which one, ha!)
puszczyk··on Librepods: AirPods liberated
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

puszczyk··on Elastic lays off 7% of employees
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...

puszczyk··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
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.
puszczyk··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
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.

puszczyk··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
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 :)
puszczyk··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
> 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.

puszczyk··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Why? What don't you like about them?
puszczyk··on Over-regulation is doubling the cost
Please just stop being antisocial.
puszczyk··on Plan Mode
I really like plan mode with Claude Code, it was missing from Cursor imho. Good they are addressing this
puszczyk··on I Use AI
I really like the ownership angle:

> You own the code your AI produces. Use your own name to commit AI code so that if something breaks, everyone blames you. This is critical. How well do you need to know the code your AI produces? Well enough that you can answer for its mistakes.

puszczyk··on Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium
Finally Spotify adds a feature I look forward to
puszczyk··on AirPods Pro 3
The in-ear HR is interesting. I wonder if Apple can make it accurate, e.g., Sennheiser Momentum are not very accurate[0]:

> Look, I’m not gonna waste your time – this thing is dumpster-fire inaccurate level in almost every realm of heart rate accuracy except for indoor cycling.

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/sennheiser-momentum-temp...

puszczyk··on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Good marketing, but also possibly the start of the conversation on model welfare?

There are a lot of cynical comments here, but I think there are people at Anthropic who believe that at some point their models will develop consciousness and, naturally, they want to explore what that means.

puszczyk··on Study mode
Looks like we were unable to correct them over the last 3k years. What has changes in 2025 that you think we will succeed in correcting that behavior?

Not US based, Central/Eastern Europe: the selection to the teacher profession is negative, due to low salary compared to private sector; this means that the unproductive behaviors are likely going to increase. I'm not saying the AI is the solution here for low teacher salaries, but training is def not the right answer either, and it is a super simplistic argument: "just train them better".

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