I finally added a slide based on the excellent essay https://t.co/FexIUa3dIT by @danwwang to define @Azumuta's role in pushing the boundary between explicit instructions & tacit know-how
A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. https://t.co/3qfJMziXVd
A student in Zurich sleeps in a camper van outside a hangar every night. Just to have more hours to build a humanoid robot. Heβs obsessive. He's not alone. 2,500 students across Europe are getting into robotics right now.
And now they united and just launched: ESRA, the European Student Robotics Association. πͺπΊπ¦Ύ
They are bringing together highly talented young people, give them space, give them resources and let them build. By now already 13 robotics clubs. 8 countries. 2,500+ students.
I visited several of them over the last weeks to get to know them and let them tell their stories. We've also been helping behind the scenes where we can, because this is exactly what Europe needs.
Several multiple billion dollar companies will come out of the ESRA network. Right here in Europe.
If the Bay Area had a student robotics network like this, they would never shut up about it.
Time we do the same. π€π₯πͺπΊ
It only needs a few crazy ones to fix a continent. Turns out they're already building. πͺπΊ
Let's do a robots watch party! π
This is a whole video where we go through videos of real-world use cases for robotics β industry per industry β 20 minutes β only the coolest robot stuff out there. π€π₯
And I have the perfect person to join me: @lukas_m_ziegler, 300k+ followers across platforms, million views, one of the leading influencer voices bringing robotics mainstream.
We start with five markets that are mature: π¦ Logistics, β‘ Energy, πΎ Farming, ποΈ Construction, π Security.
Robotics, real world, actually happening. Not pitch decks. We explain the context and what opportunities we see.
π Then we get into the weird stuff. Robot skin made from human cells. Brain-controlled robots. Robots in Brains. Fight clubs. A happy robot whose only job is to stop grain bins from exploding.
If you ever wondered what the robotics landscape actually looks like right now: This is it.
00:00 Intro
00:37 Logistics π¦
03:04 Energy β‘
05:22 Farming πΎ
07:47 Construction ποΈ
09:46 Security π
11:20 Humanoids π§ββοΈ
13:48 π΅ Freak section
This week we celebrated @OpenClaw Conf in Vienna. π₯
One thought stuck with me. We're entering a world where custom software is normal.
Everyone has their own insta-coder, their own personal appstore.
Soon software will exist on the fly, only when you need it. Just for one moment. Then it's gone. Personalized, disposable, one-shot. π€―
Code can now be autogenerated.
So if code is "no longer worth anything" (hyperbole speaking) and you can auto-build any idea into existence (slop gods be kind):
What is the future of software development β especially for founders?
I made a video on this. Spoilers: we had the working title: "Software Development is f**d"
This video is maybe more questions than answers β especially for SaaS founders.
But I also cover POVs of mine:
Eg why GitHub is obsolete, why open source might actually be dead soon, the Mexican standoff between designers/engineers/PMs, why prompt injection could be bigger than SQL injection, and what I'd actually do as a SaaS founder right now.
But there is also a paradox in all of this:
Now might be the most exciting time to build software. Ever. π¦Ύ
Thanks as always for watching.
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Europeβs share of newly created unicorns π¦ is rising to currently 23% πͺπΊ
Asia π¨π³ π―π΅ π°π· πΈπ¬ is at 18% and shrinking and U.S. πΊπΈ still leading at 58%
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