Starting September 14, we're permanently raising standard weekly limits in Claude Code by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Until then, the current 50% increase will be in place.
Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.
Just tried this and it's completely unusable
Half the buttons don't do anything / behave in a weird way. They copied the UI from Grok Bot which is good, but the follow through is unfortunately very lacking
The chat keeps flickering, I can't open a bot's chat, there are multiple sidebars which can cover the entire screen if you click the wrong button or sometimes get completely lost and leave you stranded with nothing to click
overall this UI feels super unpolished and not dogfooded. I would expect this a day after launch, but it has been out for 2 weeks
happy to provide feedback, I think we need a good open-source alternative, but this isn't it at the moment
Introducing Bot Mode for Hermes Agent.
Bot Mode is an alternative to sessions mode, where you have one chat with each agent profile, or "bot". These bots can be given jobs, descriptions, profile pics, and communicate with your other bots!
For one day we will do a public beta test of Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop through this plugin:
https://t.co/FNYCm5pcjL
Give me all your feedback here on how it does for you, if it works as expected, any bugs. Then we'll address the feedback and get it into the main Desktop App for everyone!
@the_dt1 I don’t think the solution to a dysfunctional UI should be relying on the user to fix it with their agent
I don’t doubt I could resolve this and fix it after putting in effort
But currently it just isn’t in a state that is fit for promotion to the general user
btw the legal hoops Waymo has to jump through just to launch in Germany are insane 🇩🇪
Germany is easily the hardest regulatory environment they’ve ever faced.
> Waymo had to register to lobby the German government more than 4 years before announcing the service
> run a 2-year campaign aimed specifically at changing Germany’s rules for commercial autonomous driving
> spend €170k-180k on German lobbying in 2025 alone
> submit a 12-page filing to Brussels arguing over how “safe” should be measured, down to whether one death per 10 million driving hours is the right approval benchmark
> warn that Europe’s proposed 1,500-car annual cap per robotaxi model would make a fleet impossible to scale
> now they still have to pass tests designed to prove the cars are safer than human-driven vehicles
> face tests where regulators can deliberately trigger system failures, scramble the sensor inputs and take the cars outside the conditions they were built for just to prove they fail safely
> hard-code Germany’s rules for an unavoidable crash: protect human life above property and never rank one person’s life above another based on personal traits
> build a control room where the robot asks a human for permission when German traffic law leaves it unable to continue
> program the robot to ignore that same human if the approved move is unsafe
> hire a supervisor with an engineering qualification, special Waymo training, the right driving licence and at most 3 penalty points
> begin every day by test-driving every car, inspect it again every 90 days and send it through a government inspection every 6 months
> clear 3 separate approval systems: one for the robot itself, one for the exact streets it can use and one just to charge passengers
> all this for a company with 20M+ completed trips and hundreds of thousands of commercial rides every week
> the first Munich cars will still be driven manually to map the city
> their paid driverless target: late 2027