The absurdity of 2026 is to see some companies move at warp, if a customer even just whispers some feedback, while others build the entire product seemingly avoiding the customer at all costs.
@GroovySciFi No, I am German and my pals and me have been debating / concluding the same already years ago.
Europe is stagnant and makes its young pay for it.
@christianreber Just building doesn't solve anything. Founders will just exhaust themselves and gain nothing. That's why the smart ones leave or find political connections to fund their enterprise publically.
@thiago_peres@christianreber Why would they, it's much talk and no action. Europe got incredible talent, but investors are undiversified, hence fearful, while the markets are disjointed. This is not the fault of talent.
@christianreber@felixkrrr Not true actually. Europe has the most efficient data centers in the world. And model training is perfect for capturing off time. More importantly electricity costs are not uniform across Europe.
@FalkTG Both Germany and France will now need to buy somebody else's plane. That's the simple truth.
Nobody will allow either one to join an already negotiated program in anything more than a superficial sponsor role.
Lufthansa is a symbol of German decline. Here's what happens, when your flight gets canceled:
- staff overwhelmed
- rebooking website barely loads
- books you into a booked out hotel
- hotline does not answer
- tells you to just "book a hotel" even though it's after midnight
@Google is shooting itself in the foot by actively making auth for agents impossible, while their entire business model consist of getting and selling data.