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For the last couple of years I’ve only read non fiction. For me reading about real life events is far more entertaining and also a great learning experience that I can’t get from a fiction book.

I feel Europe is a bubble waiting to burst.

Recently I was giving a lecture on digital health regulation and 90% of people were pro regulation in general not just for digital health.

It’s something hard for them to understand that too much regulation is not good and a balance should exist

This is something I see and feel everyday. And it’s very frustrating and annoying.

For example I send some doc asking for a feedback and someone without reading it generate a feedback with llm with so much ambiguity that I have to get back and wait couple of more days to get a reply.

One of the most silliest thing I see is a middle manager feeding Microsoft planner to Claude to generate a report and generate future steps and sometimes it makes no sense what he present couple of weeks ago because what he present today is contradicting to the one before.

At this point I feel it’s cheaper to replace them with AI. They are just physical vessels for AI.

It’s just not that maybe they were not good enough. But now they just fully depend on AI.

But how’d you access teams when it’s work teams and don’t have api access ?

I find the Europe's relationship with tech to be wired, there is one section that is hardcore-opensource fanatics, they want to host everything by themselves, and want to go through the trouble of keeping things updated, and would not want to use a close source tools even though they are developed by European counterparts.

On the other side there are people who are techy but happy to use US products, and when you pitch something European they would cite some tool that's better and bigger in US.

It's hard to find people who are in the middle who would like to pay and use a EU made tool.

Also processes take forever, and everything has to go through lot of meetings, and bureaucracy and red-tape and no one is willing to take a chance on a small startup.

I stopped reporting any security bugs I find in web apps because first time I did it I almost got arrested by the police.

The second time I did it they contacted my employer directly without even getting back to me saying they were unhappy of me reporting it and wanted to write about it after they fixed the issue.

Since then I decided it’s not worth all the hassle and I will let them be and I can also have a peaceful day.

I’m now responsible for improving AI literacy in the organization I work.

But the people in charge just want the employees to just answer some questions so they can handover Claude or Chat GPT licenses so they can show people are using AI to improve productivity.

There are people who don’t know when to use AI and when not to use Ai and think they can just Claude their way through everything. I wanted to change that but when the whole idea is to just increase AI use I guess they don’t care about how AI is used.

Wow i didn't know Google did this as well, that's pretty sad.

As a consultant I got my first project through a former colleague who referred me to the organization looking for a consultant.

It's not easy to find consultations out of the blue, I have gotten one by apply to a public call looking for a consultant that I am in the being interviewed process now, but referrals are far more easier.