* politically, we have a unified economic policy that is working wonders. The Brussels Effect is a thing. But, we don't have a unified foreign and defence policies, which partially made Ukraine War possible, and is making a Russian invasion further in Europe a distinct possibility.

* however, economically, the market is not really completely unified yet, especially for digital services, but for many other branches of economy as well. I can drive through 5 countries in a day, and my Netflix and Play Store selection will be different in every one. That doesn't make any sense.

Also, a leadership that is so enormously autocratic simply has to juggle fewer balls at the same time.

Would you be kind to describe what test set-up do you have that a PM felt safe enough to deploy the changed query without the fear they'll break something?

When a guy started chasing after me 30 seconds later I realized my assumption was wrong. But there really wasn't a way to know.

With the exception of extreme cases like Gaza, it doesn't get more binary than that.

When we were 3 to 4 years into mobile phone revolution it was already abundantly clear that it's changing the way people leave.

Ditto when mobile phones became smartphones, and for many other tech items we got in the past decades.

As for LLMs... outside of a few precious professions you could live your life and not notice they are there.

And if the EU tries to do something structural about it the backlash is enormous - look at that 3 euro fee for packages for example.

* give or take some years

I can now write software quicker in most of the cases, but the rest of the organization moves as slowly as ever.

But are they also paying for it? Or simply using the free version because it's available?

I tend to believe that the engineering culture you describe will end up producing similar or, as Joel postulates, an even worse result, just dressed up in a modern stack.

If the technical leadership remains the very same one that enabled such a culture, I don't see them being able to suddenly produce a genuinely better software product only because an LLM is in a picture - especially considering how easy it is to convince an LLM that your idea is the best one.

We have that in the Netherlands and we do it massively for every World Cup and Euro. The app my friend groups are on, Scorito, has 1.5 million competitors for the current WC, in the country of 18 million, and that's not the only app.

Normally a group would make a small buy in, like €5, where the winner takes all, but this year the legal department at work forbade that, se that sort of gambling Is actual illegal.