So no, the gesture was pretty clear.

Don't get me wrong, as a European I'm all for EU, but we should offer products and services that are at least as good as abroad competitors. My company still relies heavily on US tech, for the simple fact that lots of it is plain better and/or cheaper.

So you basically confirmed that being located in Europe isn't enough.

And concerning your 2nd amendment, I also own guns. The difference is that only sane, non-violent people can have guns in my country, and crazy people not. You know, crazy people that would take their guns to schools and start shooting.

Enjoy your freedom!

Do you claim that Russia doesn't invest in disinformation campaigns against the West?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_...

At 12 years old, they get an Arduino and start programming in C. Then over the years they do all kinds of interesting things with it: build a car with controlled acceleration, build a tiny house with all kinds of sensors and controllers, monitor algae breeding.

When my son was 16, they brewed their own beer (Hey, it's Belgium and they can legally drink at 16 :D)

Now in the final year, they can propose their own projects. I heard previous years did things like create their own windmill and analyse the efficiency, electric generators in rain drainpipe, etc.

"On 24 May 1940, Leopold, having assumed command of the Belgian Army, met with his ministers for the final time. The ministers urged the king to leave the country with the government. Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot reminded him that capitulation was a decision for the Belgian government, not for the king, to make. The king indicated that he had decided to remain in Belgium with his troops, whatever the outcome. The ministers took this to mean that he would establish a new government under the direction of Hitler, potentially a treasonous act. Leopold thought that he might be seen as a deserter if he were to leave the country: "He was resolved to remain with his army and amidst his people so as to share their fate."[6] Leopold had long had a difficult and contentious relationship with his ministers, acting independently of government influence whenever possible, and seeking to circumvent and even limit the ministers' powers, while expanding his own."

When you have an extensive testing suite, I would claim it's the ideal scenario for LLM's, next to crunching out small tools and MVP's.

Let's first see how it handles the architecture in a 1 year old project of 3 developers, before we make such claims as "the end of programming".

I love LLM's, they save me a lot of time and effort. But their autonomy degrades quickly when you keep adding context and complexity, which a medium codebase clearly has.

More than half would not be able to answer this, and not only in US.

I know plenty of Slovaks, and you can divide them into 2 groups:

First group are disgusted that their government is pro-Russia.

Second group claims the Ukrainian government was "bombing the Donbas", and finds it normal that "Russia went to defend the Russian speaking population".

But sure, the second group probably consider themselves "neutral" and not "pro-Russia". That doesn't mean we all have to consider them as neutral, since they are deep into the Russian disinfo.

It's mainly the older people that are influenced by this, and a lot of young people either left the country already, or have concrete plans to leave.

It's really sad, how these old people are ruining the future of their children and grandchildren, really crazy.

You can say a lot about Russia, but they are very good with misinformation, it's a real threat for Europe.

My wife is from Slovakia, so I have front row seats on the whole situation. The kinds of misinformation these older people are willing to believe is really nuts.

Don't assume EU is stupid.

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/08/18/voka-invoerheffingen...

A garden shed can easily be built by an AI. A house? Maybe with supervision. A skyscraper? Good luck with that!

And no, garden sheds do not represent 99% of software.

Hi, Europe chiming in here. We still have proper democracies combined with capitalism, and life is great here.

But hey, if you don't like capitalism, go to some country where they don't have it, like North Korea or Cuba.