Vladan Paunovic

Senior Engineering Manager, ex @getsentry & @Shpock and hobby powerlifter

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

I wasn't always an engineering manager.

People find my past astonishing because I did way too many jobs and changed way too many roles.

This thread is about: my rap career. 🧵

[Dr. Lars Henrik Andersen 🇪🇺 @EUAITaxonomy]

The Siri/EU situation is a regulatory masterpiece.

Apple cannot launch Apple Intelligence in the EU.

Why? Because under the DMA, if Siri gets deep system access, every other AI assistant must get the exact same. Anything less would be unfair competition. A gatekeeper privileging its own service.

So either Siri ships and every Shenzhen startup, Cyprus shell company, and nephew hackathon project gets identical root access to 450 million Europeans’ digital lives or nothing ships.

Apple proposed a “Trusted System Agent”: a security intermediary so third-party assistants get capabilities without ripping the phone wide open.

The EU rejected it.

Magnificent.

Apple’s response: fine, then no developer APIs either. No Apple Intelligence, no third-party integrations, no foundation model access for EU developers. The entire layer simply does not exist on this continent.

Excellent.

This is the path. Why depend on American AI when we can build the entire stack ourselves? A European foundation model, trained on a European GPU cluster, running on a European OS, on a European phone, manufactured in a European fab, powered by European nuclear plants we have spent fifteen years closing.

Estimated time to ship: 2047.

Estimated cost: the GDP of three member states.

Estimated outcome: a chatbot that requires a cookie banner before each response.

Worth it.

In the meantime, European users are protected from Apple processing data Apple already holds by ensuring nobody processes anything at all.

Not a bug. The intended outcome.

Regulatory product design with a sledgehammer, swung with precision.

🇪🇺

[shadcn @shadcn]

Rooting for @github. They’ve given me years of free infra. happy to give them some time to figure this out. You got this.

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@benedictk__ Count me in. I’m in Vienna. Even happy to help organize this!

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

A speed reading training video starts at 300 words per minute and ends at 900 words per minute.

I was able to understand this entire video the first time it was present.

Could you?

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@___rikh___ @mitsuhiko This is true. I also wander whether this is a good thing tho. Good research needs good data. The more limits you put on data, the more overhead your research has. Ultimately slowing down the innovation and learning.

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@mitsuhiko Just admit that you bought it 😁

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@LucaForstner Eurovision finale is tonight too 😁

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@mitsuhiko @helge9210 Give it a few years Armin 😁

[Dima 🇺🇦 @DivDev_]

I kinda slept on @dubdotco! such a fantastic tool! Now you can get started with Cascade even faster 🔥

Check it out, an open-source alternative to all the SaaS boilerplates. Now, with examples & docs

https://t.co/pPIQe7PJIX

https://t.co/pPIQe7PJIX

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@DivDev_ I personally love @strapijs for all CMS use cases

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@mitsuhiko @megabulldog2 This is so lovely! Sending congrats and warm love to you! To many more years to come! ❤️

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@sl0thentr0py BMW driver

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@marandaneto @posthog Congrats @marandaneto! 🎉👏👏👏

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@kamilogorek @getsentry @supabase We’ll deserved! I wish you best of luck @kamilogorek! 💪🍻😊

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@threadreaderapp unroll

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

I wasn't always an engineering manager.

People find my past astonishing because I did way too many jobs and changed way too many roles.

This thread is about: my rap career. 🧵

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

And for the end - here you can see me on the stage 🎤

Somewhere in the year 2008

[Kai Sassnowski 🥔 @warsh33p]

Open source is such fulfilling work.

[George Mack @george__mack]

What is ignored by the media -- but will be studied by historians?

8 more examples:

[Vladan Paunovic @thisisvladan]

@LucaForstner @getsentry @CloudNativeFdn @dkhan Find a man who is passionate about you as @dkhan is about @opentelemetry

[Dominik 🔮 @TkDodo]

In about two weeks, I'll be giving a talk about React Query at @ReactVienna, our local monthly meetup.

https://t.co/AUoqo2e6IZ

If you are based in Vienna (or want to travel), come and say hello 👋

[Luca Forstner @LucaForstner]

Me and @imabhiprasad did some scuffed live pair-programming today working on the @getsentry JS SDK. It was way more scuffed and way more fun than anticipated!🔈sound on!