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Don't underestimate the impact Freud had.. Even though he is now often seen as a pseudo-scientic Quacksalber, he opened up a world with psychoanalysis. He was an immense popularizer of clinical psychology, the subconscious mind (!) and mental illnesses. He really showed that we humans are driven be desires more than anything else.

Do you feel the same way about emails, cloud drives or SaaS like Salesforce or Jira?

Thanks for the constructive feedback. I think you may be right about this. It thought it was anonymous enough in the way I phrased it. Just wanted to be honest.

intuition and a lot of talking with our customers :-)

Yes. Or we make a skill of it and offer it via our skills marketplace. Depends really on what the fix was. Sometimes its really a one-off issue, and sometimes it makes sense to roll the new "insights" out to everyone.

We only look IF they ask us. Our users aren't engineers and often get stuck and even the LLM can't figure it out. Then - AND ONLY THEN - we jack into the sandbox and help them.

For instance, one customer has 15(!) cronjobs. And they all used LLM calls to do stuff. So they ran out of tokens super quick and asked us for help because they didn' tknow what to do. Its not an engineering company, the owner has a sales background. So we went in and wrote scripts for them so that the cron calls don't need to use the LLM anymore.

Yes. We are Bluehouse. The homepage still sucks but we are working on a nice one right now without AI Slop :-)

We are building a Personal AI Assistant platform in Europe. Oh man. It is FREAKING HARD! We have now 20 paying users and it is amazing what those people do lol. You really can't make it up. The complexity of building such a business is something I've really underestimated. Especially if you allow the harness to evolve. For our 20 users, no sandbox is still the same anymore. Everyone customized it, has crons running, built apps or automations. And then jsut to think that Meta Muse went to a million users in literally no-time. I am not surprised at all. On the other hand. Zuck has literally infinite money to spend. You'd expect better than, right?

EDIT: Because someone downstream rightfully asked if we look at user's sandboxes: Yes! IF they ask us. Our users aren't engineers and often get stuck and even the LLM can't figure it out. THEN - AND ONLY THEN - we jack into the sandbox and help them.

and really , for 90% of standard agentic work, deepseek flash is more than good enough. its the main driver for our Personal Assistant offering and users love it.

In Europe, we carry knifes and machetes

why then not give Trump 2 terms in a tow? why the Biden intermezzo?

Hi. We are building our own, but the core is openClaw. Hoever, that will change soon

We use hosted providers in the EU. They have a cost markup but its worth it. I enjoy the idea that I do t talk to big tech.

I cant ofc be fully sure because i don’t own the chain end 2 end.

Oh man. v4.1-flash has been an sbolute game changer for us. We run all our Personal Assistants now on flash (thinking high) by default and it works incredibly well. There is really no need for basic agentic tasks that might require Kimi K.3 or GLM-5.3 levels.

Once its gets juicier, we let flash launch specialized subagents with specific models. GLM-5.3 for coding or Kimi K.3 for research and critique.

But as a main driver. I love flash. And it brought our bill down by A LOT :D

and dont forget the touchpad.. for me, it was always about the touchpad.

DHH is really not a racist man. And for sure not a "vehement racist". What are you talking about?

But I agree that cutting off support sucks a lot.

Wow this is so cool. Glad that Aleph Alpha does that after Mistral threw the towel in the ring (and disappointed the european AI crowd massively!!!!). After AA got sold to the Canadians, I thought its over but this is a really cool comeback and the depth of the tech report shows that they a serious about openness. I hope I can use their model soon in my product. Would be awesome to have a European model to offer!!!! I really wonder how it compares to deepseek v4.1 flash

If you guys want to try a system like this, but then based on open-weights models (all modalities, LLM+image+video+sound) with Zero-Data-Retention, then shoot me a message: markus (at) savorywolper.com. I'll send an invite code.

Our Bluehouse platform is an alternative and I promise you, we are not after your data. We just want to give everyone access to really cool Personal Assistants without having to sign up with the big corpos. We are based in Europe , which might be appealing - or not [1].

We currently raise pre-seed, so seats are limited, but its fully functional already. We run our whole business with it. You can talk to the agent via our beautiful apps or Telegram/Whatsapp if you want. I prefer the apps though as it gives access to very specialized functionality.

[1] https://savorywolper.com/bluehouse

very socialist from them!

Congratz to all the laywers that trained it and told OpenAI their business cases by using ChatGPT in their practice. You took the first step to make yourself obsolete.

Snarky comment I know, but I believe that is some truth to it. We SOftware Engineers are equally "being used", especially the Open Source contributors.

I personally only use open weights model for my business stuff. I just refuse to feed the machine with my secrets. However, I think there is no way back. My accountant happily told me that he is using Claude to organize his cases. To do so, Claude reads his emails, customer correspondance etc. So yeah. ANthropic might know now my financial details, even though i NEVER ever used Claude myself...

It's just fucked. And the worst thing is that my accountant didn't mind. Time to find a new one I guess. Someone with a typewriter.

P.S. I am not Anti-AI. Really not. I have an AI startup and I use AI everyday. Its a love-hate relationship. AI usage has serious risk, and one is that we all train the AIs to put ourselves out of a job.

Fair, but I want to know how they specificially disinform and target Dutch farmers. That was the claim.

Last that I checked, Dutch farmers are in an existential struggle with the government. I wonder how Russia disinforms them.

can you explain how Dutch farmers are being disinformed by Russian intelligence services? I am REALLy curious.

what? why? Do you say I made this up?

ah. when you wrote „hired as an expert“, I misread it as him being a contractor.

nevermind

Yesterday, just before bedtime, I pointed Astra at our Electron Desktop app, and asked it to write me a native Swift app for iOS. The electron app has 750 unit tests and 50 something integration tests. It also had access to the electron app via mcp and could click around and inspect it. I also gave Astra read only access to the backend code.

It worked for 3 hours and delivered a nearly feature complete port. Today, I found in manual testing 3 bugs and 1 performance issue, all of which it fixed afterwards. To fix the performance issue , it made several different builds and profiled them with Xcode.

At around 12:30 I had a full native app port of our product on my iPhone and iPad and could show it to my crew. It even did portrait and landscape correctl!

Needless to say, that I was flabbergasted. On one hand, I love it , I can build now all those cool stuff, but on the other hand, its a complete devaluation of my craft. I kinda tell myself that I was still the one setting up a proper env for it and that not everyone can do it. but thats coping. Freaking coping… and I know it

Jesus Christ... and then?

What happened to him? What was the conclusion? Did he get paid?

listen to the DHH round two at Lex Friedman. Dropped a few days ago. Its inspiring

yes. There is plan mode in codex. I use it all the time. It will come up with a set of questions to clarify things

It was obviously meant as a funny joke ;-)

But on a more serious note. Humans "prompt" each other all the time. Especially in a Boss->Employee relation.

Defintion of "to prompt":

1. To cause or inspire: To make something happen or motivate someone to take action. For example, a loud noise can prompt you to look outside.

2. To assist or cue: To help an actor or speaker remember forgotten lines or words.

I concurrently prompt a senior human programmers and a set of AI programmers and the difference is the following:

The human applies critical thinking, questions choices, suggests his own ideas and has a certain taste. I also can prompt him, leave for 2 weeks, come back and have a result. And I can trust that it works! Velocity is OK. I often wish he would be faster :-)

The AI needs baby sitting and steering. It codes like a champ but I cant trust it. So we have 2000+ unit tests to make sure stuff worlks. The AI happily goes down into any rabbit whole I send it, so I need to constantly steer it. It has no taste st all, essentially everything is „A great idea“. However, its velocity is awesome. We build tons of featurs in no time. but lets not talk about the code, ok? :-)

I dont think Ill fire the human nor the agents. Both bring a lot of value