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My very large employer has always been glacially slow on modernization and tech adoption. It may now, oddly enough, become a competitive advantage.
by miek 5mo ago
My very large employer has always been glacially slow on modernization and tech adoption. It may now, oddly enough, become a competitive advantage.
- DCKP 5mo agoLiterally the plot of Battlestar Galactica! Life imitates art indeed...
- Barrin92 5mo agoyes, I was never so happy to work in Germany. People used to joke about the proverbial fax machine still being a thing but I've never been so glad to work in a culture where this mania doesn't exist. Reading HN is like entering Alice's Wonderland of token maxxers and AI psychotics. Genuinely don't know a single person here who is forced to work like this.
- alexnewman 5mo agoAh so it's like 2000 again. Germany will go even farther behind it seems
- OtomotO 5mo agoIf the people that walk before you go into the abyss, staying behind isn't wrong.
- kuschku 5mo agoGermany is standing at the abyss. America is one step ahead.
- billywhizz 5mo agothis is social media induced psychosis my friend
- dxdm 5mo agoI have this image in my head of people flushing their country down the toilet and going "wheeee!" while they're getting spun around.
- spacechild1 5mo agoActually, I have been wondering to which extend the AI craze has reached the DACH region. I don't work for any company and neither do my friends. HN is essentially my only peephole into the world of commercial software development and I'm aware that it's extremely biased towards Big Tech and SV startup culture.
- perlgeek 5mo agoI can give you a single data point from Germany. I work at a hosting provider that has pretty conservative customers who don't want to host on AWS/Azure due to data privacy / safety concerns, among other things. For us, sending customer data to the US is a big no-go. We have been experimenting with LLM usage, first through a Gemini subscription, then also with the Claude API. Participation has been lightly encouraged by management. As for coding, we haven't let the LLMs loose on our core components, but tooling on the fringes (like deployment scripts, reporting) has seen some uptick in LLM usage. We have also started building an on-premise inference cluster, which is in alpha testing, and where the "don't include customer data" restriction doesn't apply anymore.
- Falimonda 5mo agoSpoiler: it's not
- bigstrat2003 5mo agoIt is absolutely going to be a competitive advantage if it isn't already. When your competitors' products suck because they are using LLMs to write them, and yours work because you aren't, customers notice.
- Falimonda 5mo agoThat assumes there's no way to use LLMs in a productive manner
- dakolli 5mo agoEvery power user of LLMs thinks that they are the ones that know how to hold it correctly, in reality they usually have major Dunning Kruger and are convinced they're living in some hyper productivity mode when actually they're all just copying each other making low effort slop that all sounds the same, looks the same and does the same things.
- Falimonda 5mo agoThis indicates exposure to only surface-level, greenfield part of the industry
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- Falimonda 5mo agoAw was your comment too unhinged? Or is it because you confused it for Ghost Robotics?
- Falimonda 5mo agoFor the record, the comment you deleted was something to the effect of: checks notes The company you work for is committing genocide. You should be locked up in a concrete cell for 10-15 years for working at <wrong robotics company because you're a dufus> --- Maybe get better notes? Or try going offline for 10-15 years?
- marcosdumay 5mo agoThat has probably been an advantage since the move of everything into the web.
- tonymet 5mo agodo you mean this aesthetically or quantitatively? Are they actually outcompeting / making more money ? Or do you mean they are now looking more desirable because their competitors are racing to the bottom (though likely making money on the way down)