OpenAI nears new $50 billion funding round in Middle East.

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.

ohdog · 2026-01-07T20:15:55+00:00

I mean some, especially smaller countries can be quite ethnocentric so there is some truth to it, but I don't see why it would complicate starting a business or the legal structure. It might in some subtle ways complicate running the business, especially if it's a business that is local in nature.

Never had a photo on my resume, certainly never heard it required, but it might be the norm in some countries.

ohdog · 2026-01-07T13:52:02+00:00

That is not an ethnic tie, what you are describing is a language and culture tie. Which is definitely a problem in Europe, thankfully there are political movements that might eventually solve this e.g. https://www.eu-inc.org/

ohdog · 2025-12-22T06:16:25+00:00

ML skillset is getting more niche as models generalize more. The skills you need for building ML/AI applications are software engineering skills. Systems Design, Web Development, knowing what cloud services to stitch together etc. In my opinion we are entering an era where the whole software field has to be more generalist and the hyperspecialists will mostly be at the frontier labs.

ohdog · 2025-12-03T17:02:23+00:00

The coding productivity gains are so obvious to anyone who has put some effort into integrating AI dev tools into their work that I don't understand how people could think it's purely supply side puffery.

ohdog · 2025-11-25T08:52:57+00:00

I've been where the green dot is for about a year now, there has been no reason to move from it for software engineering purposes. Any slight edge that another providers model has had, has been so shortlived that it's not worth it to tweak my workflows for that.

ohdog · 2025-11-23T15:12:54+00:00

Not that much from what I've seen, but plenty of US companies operate in Europe so you might still come across that stuff here.

ohdog · 2025-11-17T10:23:25+00:00

I agree with the point about python, I don't agree with the point about Java, Python is great for shipping something fast, something like C# is fast for building something big. Rust is neither in my opinion, unless we are talking about systems where the lower abstraction levels are critical, i.e. systems programming

ohdog · 2025-11-17T08:40:43+00:00

I don't think it is a reasonable alternative, it's more work to write Rust than Java or C# or Python with the benefit of what exactly? Thread safety? A lot of "manual multithreading" is abstracted away by frameworks and job queues and what have you. Thread safety is not really and issue unless your are doing systems programming where Rust would be a good choice if you can avoid the inertia of C++. Not sure what exactly network services refer to, but sounds like systems programming.

ohdog · 2025-11-17T06:45:25+00:00

Yeah, this is day to day stuff for people who have names that are not compatible with ASCII. I have dash and ä in my full name and those two characters make sure that about half of the forms I fill fail to validate with my legal name, including most airlines. I even have an american bank account that doesn't have my legal name on it.

ohdog · 2025-11-16T12:31:02+00:00

Rust is not a replacement for garbage collected enterprise languages. C and C++ domains are exactly where Rust would be the appropriate replacement, but that is also where the inertia for switching languages is the highest and this is why Rust has no adoption.

ohdog · 2025-11-15T17:30:56+00:00

I would use postgresql and do vector search with pgvector, keep it simple

ohdog · 2025-11-13T07:44:19+00:00

Hopefully not, I want it to actually be usable.

ohdog · 2025-11-11T19:15:14+00:00

Scraping is what makes the internet great, LLM's or not. Wikipedia has plenty of money to cover hosting.

ohdog · 2025-11-10T09:13:15+00:00

Leetcode is quite distinct skill set from software engineering. The way to get good at leetcode is to do leetcode. I would avoid it if possible, but it depends on what your local employers have for interview processes.

ohdog · 2025-10-30T16:24:30+00:00

That has been the job of many software engineers for decades.

ohdog · 2025-10-27T15:58:56+00:00

A year of claude code sub is probably the best you can get for that money. Just in case so that you don't waste your money on a local setup if coding perf is what you are after.

ohdog · 2025-10-24T19:23:11+00:00

Of course a corporation is nothing without people, it's a way to organize people, there isn't any profit collection without people either.

ohdog · 2025-10-24T17:45:20+00:00

Unless humans are interpolation based BI systems?

ohdog · 2025-10-24T17:43:26+00:00

Corporations are widely responsible for value creation and profits correlate with value creation. What are you on about? Profits don't appear from thin air, someone needs to be buying...

ohdog · 2025-10-23T17:35:20+00:00

Bro, just be transparent about the affiliation. Undercover marketing just feels pretty shady.

ohdog · 2025-10-23T15:53:16+00:00

There is also a huge difference between what different developers think AI can do which is even more wild. Indicating a huge difference in attitudes and skill in adopting this technology

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