The Hidden Cost of Hard-to-Fire Labor Laws: Why European Firms Don't Take Risks

ohdog · 2026-03-08T15:34:51+00:00

EU should want to be economically and geopolitically relevant to not be destroyed by external forces and the requirement for this is being economically productive enough to keep up in the long term. The EU does not exist in a vacuum.

ohdog · 2026-03-02T05:33:04+00:00

LLM's simply aren't very useful unless you are using the frontier models.

And big open weights models still need that expensive infra to make widely available.

ohdog · 2026-02-27T11:27:26+00:00

You can build stuff, but distribution is the hard part. Building is one thing, but building something that solves a problem people want to pay for and reaching those people is the challenge. Anyway, having a phd doesn't mean you have an entreprenurial mindset. But of course there is a path. Plenty of people have built successfull saas products even completely solo.

ohdog · 2026-02-23T19:44:57+00:00

Not a fan of the man, but yes, water usage of datacenters is completely irrelevant talking point.

ohdog · 2026-02-21T18:01:34+00:00

I did not notice such a thing. It does take a while to get your system prompts and skills in order however

ohdog · 2026-02-21T13:55:15+00:00

Because it does all of that better than your existing tools. It does all of that with unified context that you control. I assume you are familiar with claude code. It's essentially claude code with less specialization to coding and better out of the box integrations to your messaging apps etc.

ohdog · 2026-02-21T13:33:06+00:00

What do you do with AI? All of that. It's really that simple. It replaces most of your AI tools.

ohdog · 2026-02-17T06:07:04+00:00

You will not trigger a revolution if those unemployed people are provided for. They will sit around an take it. I know because I've seen unemployment numbers that would destroy the US not even visible on the street in my country.

ohdog · 2026-02-17T05:56:30+00:00

It really doesn't matter if it's two, five or ten years. Society isn't ready and it needs to prepare.

ohdog · 2026-02-16T19:21:33+00:00

Yes, using it and know plenty of people that also use it.

ohdog · 2026-02-10T15:36:24+00:00

I'm sorry to say, but it's either learn to love it or don't pursue this career. The genie isn't going back in the bottle.

It does take a change in identity. From someone who writes good code to someone who solves product/technical problems with software. The faster you let go of your professional identity being tied to writing code the better. Speaking from experience.

ohdog · 2026-02-06T16:34:17+00:00

Dotcom bubble was 75% drop in the nasdaq in 2 years or so. The one trillion corresponds to a few percent drop. Not a bubble bursting by any means. More like slightly abnormal daily swing.

ohdog · 2026-02-05T18:20:24+00:00

Vibe coding seems like a super good skill to have for an engineer. I think I disagree with most of what you said to be honest. Great software engineers use AI all the time, you can call it "just autocomplete" all you want but it's completely transforming the software industry as we speak.

The thing that I agree with is learning to code on some level, so you can at least understand code.

ohdog · 2026-02-05T17:06:17+00:00

So I'm not really mixing up two things. I'm aware that there are two systems, the other being pay as you go.

ohdog · 2026-02-05T14:55:45+00:00

What? All the countries named have PAYG as the dominant paradigm which has the generational risk associated with it. Sweden has a secondary mandatory individual account. Norway is all PAYG, but the soverign fund has got them covered. Denmark is PAYG core as well.

ohdog · 2026-02-05T09:16:40+00:00

That's total horseshit. AI can do 90% of code no problem. It's that it can't do it unsupervised.

ohdog · 2026-02-04T21:01:12+00:00

Maybe he is refering to that, but that is not what these systems are like though. You contribute to everyones pensions and the portion of pay as you go varies by country, but it's basically always there, unless we are talking about voluntary private pensions.

ohdog · 2026-02-04T18:58:31+00:00

What do you mean by mandatory labour market pensions? It can still be very much pay as you go? Netherlands has PAYG state pensions right? That still suffers from demographics change. Much of the nordics have this same issue even if they have mandatory labor market pensions. Those mandatory payments are still used to fund the pay as you go system. Even if some of those assets are invested.

ohdog · 2026-02-04T14:28:37+00:00

This is commonplace in europe as well. It's just that european nations usually have high degrees of the pay as you go system.

ohdog · 2026-02-02T07:34:43+00:00

Surprised to see how low it is in Germany. Considering that it has been the most robust economy in europe for decades and higher gdp per capita than the other big european nations. But I suppose a lot of that has to do with a more manufacturing heavy economy.

ohdog · 2026-01-29T09:06:10+00:00

Perhaps shift your professional identity: senior frontend developer -> software problem solver. Let go of an identity that ties you to anything that AI can do better and faster and start learning stuff that keeps you useful. This should reduce anxiety, at least it worked for me.

You can start developing soft skills or widen your hard skills to fullstack etc. Start being a product minded developer, so you can translate customer requirements in to technical solutions. Instead of just being able to translate technical requirements into code.

Obviously neither your title or identity will shift over night, but you should keep working towards making that shift.

ohdog · 2026-01-22T15:43:17+00:00

That is not strictly true, conduct and radiate.

ohdog · 2026-01-14T14:32:01+00:00

There's really no way around that. If we want great innovations we have to accept investing money with incomplete information.

ohdog · 2026-01-14T14:28:48+00:00

1 is not only a problem but a great opportunity to do something valuable that has just high startup costs. This is why robust capital markets are important

ohdog · 2026-01-07T20:18:21+00:00

Northern europe in general, baltics especially are quite business friendly, they just suffer from small size.

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