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by kfk 2mo ago
At least in Enterprise IT, where I work, the challenge is not how you scale technology, but how you scale trust. Big IT problems are always trust problems. That messy CRM systems everyone complains about? The messiness is likely due to low
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by kfk 4mo ago
You might be right but you are missing a lot of nuance here. For instance, yes, Italy is not thinking about growth, true. But Poland? Poland is all about growth, they just made the list of the richest 20 countries in the world. The real pro
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by kfk 5mo ago
This is all fun and games when you work with toy data samples. But most organizations are more complex, they have to match invoices from SAP with opportunities in Hubspot; or they have to consider that little sales territory exception for t
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by kfk 5mo ago
Can you make chinotto?
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by kfk 8mo ago
how do you handle intent orchestration? I see you have workflows, but imagine this is used in combination with other MCP servers, how do you make sure the prompt is sent to the right MCP server and that the right tool or chain of tools gets
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by kfk 9mo ago
How would you market such a business in 2026? I am from an Italian region where farmer grow many special coltures, and I was always a bit surprised why they don’t try selling on the internet. I ended up convincing myself it is not a viable
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by kfk 1y ago
I met many programmers during the boom years of software that straight out refused to develop any type of soft or managerial skills. Forget that, they even refused to maintain good relationships with decision makers (and I did this too, but
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by kfk 1y ago
Because in the industries I have experience in IT has typically very little to do with the type of efficiency that matters in manufacturing. For instance, moving a factory from Germany to Romania is going to give you faster and more predict
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by kfk 1y ago
I run a small IT consultancy in EU mostly for companies with factories, so I have some biases. I have a few issues with the way IT leadership in EU has been running things the past 20 or so years: - Absolutely 0 care for having a de-risked
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by kfk 2y ago
I wonder how much of this drop can be simply explained as having reached a certain industry maturity. I assume at some point most of the fundamentals are in place, so we need less people?
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by kfk 2y ago
You can also just use google sheets if the size of your data allows it.
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by kfk 2y ago
The challenge with Microsoft in Europe is that it is so convenient, it doesn’t make business sense to consider alternatives. See how easily MS won market share over Slack (MS Teams) and PowerBI (Tableau / Qlik). They have such a big b
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by kfk 2y ago
I struggle to make the VC math work on Substack. They take a 10% cut on paid subscriptions. They need 1 billion in paid subscriptions to have a $100m revenue, which at a hopefully 30% ebit would put them in the $0.5-1 billion evaluation (ma
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by kfk 3y ago
The most successful use pf generative AI is a chatbot… once you can use a model with natural language you need less rich UIs. I think UIs will become simpler and value will be in the proprietary data you can manage to grab to adapt existing
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by kfk 3y ago
Not a direct answer, but I am targeting data marts from ERPs and other Enterprise applications like CRMs. I think data marts (data warehouses) are very valuable but they are too expensive and hard to build, so an AI that could generate the
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by kfk 3y ago
I find the “principled software” part a bit hard to believe, considering bootstrapped companies change owners too, but the editing files part is interesting. In tina cms [1] they have “visual editing”, which is the concept of editing stuff
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by kfk 3y ago
Same here, 14 years lifting, suddenly I had to be in bed for back pain for a week. After that I spent 4 years with backpain and stopped training following the advise of various doctors. Met a guy who does power lifting, we became friends, h
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by kfk 3y ago
Another take is we don’t like being lied to. Lots of these ChatGPT job candidates don’t disclose they are using an AI during the interview.
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by kfk 3y ago
I like your analogy to the last mile problem in logistics. I would argue in that case people know they are using bespoke, last mile only, systems because there is no other option. Low code vendors promise much more than that, end to end cap
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by kfk 3y ago
Take estimated losses of the NYT from this "innovation" and multiply by 10^x where is "x" high enough to make tech companies stop and think before they break laws next time. That would be my approach at least.
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by kfk 3y ago
Fully agree, but I am not sure 200k month is high enough of a cost to start looking outside of Cloud. A Sr Engineer will probably be 300/400k per year and you need a few of those to do your own infra, 2.4m per year is not much of a bud
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by kfk 3y ago
Maybe you were not wrong on technical merits, but your move proves you underestimated the value of the Kubernetes ecosystem of lots and lots of standards and trained talent. It’s like building a fancy CMS today with a fancy API, but then ma
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by kfk 3y ago
I mean, they did an acquisition when money was cheap, now it all goes to goodwill impairment because they paid pre-interest hiked multiples. That is where the money is going. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02&#x2F
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by kfk 3y ago
It’s not a simple problem. Heavily regulated places like the EU don’t grow as fast. Non growth is problematic too since we need to still help millions of people out of poverty in a sustainable way. There is no free lunch and simplistic solu
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by kfk 3y ago
If investors still expect the same returns, four-day work week being in effect a labor cost increase will be a no go. And before you mention “productivity”, keep in mind that from the looks of it, AI and tech driven productivity gains go to
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by kfk 3y ago
FYI, the police is able to find criminals now by finding DNA sequences similarities with your relatives. Not saying this is good or bad, I am just saying you don't know the extent of the impact to your personal freedom when your relati
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by kfk 3y ago
You are looking at this the wrong way. Moving IT to offshoring companies is a risk mitigation strategy, now if critical systems go down it's someone else's problem.
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by kfk 3y ago
Thanks! I thought I’d never read these posts again, brings up memories of a gone by era for me. Back to reading blogpost now.
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by kfk 3y ago
There was a really good (for me) Italian blogger I used to follow. Any way to recover his blog from the archive? Is this what ArchiveTeam will do? I have tried searching the current archive but I get only one page https://archive
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by kfk 3y ago
Europe also needs some way to regulate US startups (and big tech a la Microsoft) price dumping “competitive” practices. Underpricing applications, SaaS and Cloud services for years is a sure way to kill EU startups. EU tech companies do not

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