Stefano Azzolini

Senior Engineer, Ex Klarna, living in Stockholm 🇸🇪

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

Reminder that you can use the Codex App, CLI and SDK with any open source model, not just with OpenAI models.

https://t.co/spPifB4ck3

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

@thsottiaux please, consider an Account switcher like the one in ChatGPT for Codex too!

[antirez @antirez]

What Europe should do right now:

1. Call all the European researchers working on AI and return them back with same salary (or they can stay but switch career).

2. Fill EU places having GPUs with money, and put those people there.

3. AI partnerships with China + India.

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

For years, come out with a fear-mongering marketing campaign on his company’s models.

Present Mythos as a “very dangerous” model

Hide it from the majority of the user as a marketing stunt

Says that’s incredibly better than GPT-5.5

US Government believes your stories and ban these model for any non US citizen (even in US soil!)

You cry and say that it wasn’t what you intended and Mythos, in the end, was as powerful as GPT-5.5.

Now competition will reach and they will be very cautious as how they’ll market models from now on, while Anthropic lost 3/4 of their customers in a night.

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

As a result of a US government directive, we are suspending access to Claude Fable 5 for all users. You can continue to use all other Claude models.

Here’s what this means for you:

Across Claude products, new sessions will run on your selected default model or Opus 4.8, and existing Fable 5 sessions will end with an error.

On the Claude Platform, requests to Fable 5 will also return an error. Please update your integrations to other Claude models.

We know this is a disruption to your workflows; we appreciate your patience and support.

[antirez @antirez]

I believe what Anthropic is doing, gating the ability to do certain harmless things like LLM research, and with incredibly sensitive filters that even medical questions are often blocked, is *deeply* wrong. They got open research, the Transformer, GPT2, ...

[antirez @antirez]

The Internet just discovered GPT is better than Opus 🤨 Would love to understand the process that allowed the obvious to take months, otherwise my trust on the average AI expertise, which is already very low, may drop further.

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

We made that error again.

Evaluating performance by counting how many tokens or AI-minutes an engineer is spending is exactly like counting how many lines of code they are writing.

It was BS in the past, it is still now.

[JNS @_devJNS]

me and Claude building an app at 3AM

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

@Cartidise Because that’s the best way of doing it.

[Dan McAteer @daniel_mac8]

This is amazing.

Some people discovered that every Mac with Apple silicon has an LLM on device that’s locked behind Siri.

They created “apfel” to unlock it and use it as a CLI, OpenAI compatible API and chatbot.

Link below 👇

[jon allie @jonallie]

Half-formed shower thought: we need a better version control paradigm for AI assisted coding.

The agent speedup feels great on greenfield/solo projects, but when you start collaborating with other devs, things can fall apart. Either you all exchange huge PRs (abandoning code review, and dealing with gnarly merge conflicts), or stick to a traditional flow with reasonably sized changes, in which case you spend a lot of time waiting for changes to land.

Old style version control systems had the notion of files being "checked out" by a user. This was painful, but was a pretty good signal that someone was making changes to a set of files that might affect what you wanted to do. Obviously that had huge downsides, but I wonder if that "signal" doesn't still have value. In theory you could get something like this from git, with automatic / frequent push and pulls. You'd have to deal with the messy commit history, but...maybe the existing "functional chunk commits" strategy is an anachronism

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

That's us! 🌍

The Artemis II crew captured beautiful, high-resolution images of our home planet during their journey to the Moon. As @Astro_Christina put it: "You guys look great."

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

"Built For Developers"
"Built For Agents and Developers"
"Built For Agents"

"Built by Us, For Us"

It's pretty clear.

[Marcel van Oost @oost_marcel]

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU–INC, a new framework that lets you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100

Starting a company across the EU today = 27 legal systems, 60+ company structures 🤯

That might be about to change…

The European Commission just introduced 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰., a new optional corporate framework designed to make Europe actually function like one market.

Here’s what stands out:

→ Set up a company in 48 hours
→ Cost: < €100
→ Fully online, no minimum capital
→ One single framework across all EU countries
→ Easier share transfers & fundraising
→ EU-wide employee stock options (huge for talent)

Especially the EU-wide stock option plans, taxed only when employees actually sell (instead of when granted) is huge.

This makes it far easier for startups to attract and retain top talent, finally putting Europe closer to the US playbook.

Source/More info: https://t.co/8pI4gv0Hh7

In short: This is Europe trying to compete with the simplicity of a Delaware C-Corp 🇺🇸

And honestly… it’s long overdue.

For years, European founders had 2 choices:

1. Stay local and deal with fragmentation
2. Move to the US to scale

𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰. is trying to remove that trade-off.

If executed well, this could be one of the most important structural changes for European startups in decades.

What do you think?

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

@levelsio Stupid politicians make those decisions.
We live in the Era of Ignorance.

[Ivan Morgillo @hamen]

Imagine you're John Carmack

you're 22 years old and you just wrote a 3D engine in assembly that runs at 35fps on a 486

Doom drops. Quake drops. Half the planet is playing your code.

you're the reason GPUs exist. you're the reason your friend Jensen has a yacht today.

then in 2009, you sell id Software. people call it betrayal. you call it "they made an offer I couldn't refuse."

VR obsession. Oculus. Meta buys it for $2B. you're CTO.

but Meta thinks you're a liability. your demos are "too intense." your emails are "too long." your focus on frame timing is "slowing us down."

2022. they push you out. not fired officially. just "restructured."

the media writes "end of an era." some crypto bro calls you "washed up."

silicon valley moves on.

but you don't.

you don't write a book. you don't start a podcast. you don't collect speaking fees.

you go completely quiet.

you take the money. you buy a warehouse in Texas. you hire 10 engineers. and you start coding.

not games. not VR.

AGI.

two years. radio silence. no tweets. no conference talks.

while everyone's debating ChatGPT, you're debugging CUDA kernels at 3AM, testing world models.

then in 2025, Keen Technologies pivots hard. you're not "exploring" anymore. you're building it.

here's what people get wrong:

everyone calls it a comeback. a redemption arc. "revenge on Meta."

it's none of that.

you're a 54-year-old engineer who still codes 12 hours a day because you genuinely can't stop.

most CTOs would have bought an island. most legends would have written memoirs.

you just kept typing.

the most dangerous person in any codebase is the one who goes quiet and never stops shipping commits.

karma doesn't need to be real.
but obsession is.

welcome back, Carmack.

[Stefano Azzolini @lastguest]

@Frenkie_Woody Infatti, non a caso l'Italia non e' tra i paesi che la Francia ha deciso di proteggere col loro deterrente nucleare.

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