Jan Wildeboer 😷Feb 20

This is a link to an article written by someone else, not me:

"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions made here, but that's not the point. Someone tried, learned and shares the result. *That's* the point.

#DigitalSovereignty #Cloudless

"Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.

I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid.

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@jwildeboer for AI not trying Mistral? It's EU right?
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Show threadRenke MeuweseFeb 20
@edthix @jwildeboer OOP explicity says they want Claude. Some people have a personal lock-in for a specific AI already. This is to be expected, and explains why Copilot and Kiro are being pushed on Azure and AWS customers with extreme force: if you can get people used to the flavor of your LLM, they might never want to leave anymore, because they'll talk to their LLM more than to any human probably.
Show threadJohannes BornholdFeb 20

@meuwese there may be a bit more to it. I am experimenting with Mistral since a week or so and did with Claude a good month before that.

There seems to be a relevant capability gap, that's at least my impression so far. I think that this is a bit more than just not being used to the flavor.