... suddenly lose access to all AI. But what happens if , one day, access to the leading American models is restricted more broadly? We would still have European models, open-source systems we can operate ourselves, and Chinese alternatives. But there is no guarantee that another major power would never make the same decision to protect its own strategic advantage. AI is no longer just another software category. It is becoming infrastructure. It will shape education, healthcare, national security, research ... ... world are American, and Europe should continue working closely with the United States. But cooperation and dependency are not the same thing. Technological sovereignty does not mean refusing to use foreign technology. It means having a real alternative

... proud of one more thing: a single typed API contract powers both the web app and the native mobile app, and agent progress streams live to both. Best engineering classroom I have ever paid for with my own weekends. (Mollie friends: the day job is very safe ) If you build LLM agents, retrieval systems, or you just cook, I would genuinely love your take on the approach ...

... When we launched, the pitch was simple: one platform, any processor, no lock-in. We had no idea what we'd signed up for. 70+ processors later (Stripe, Adyen, Razorpay, PayPal, Checkout.com , Worldpay, Mollie, plus a long tail across Europe and North America), five lessons: 1. "Declined" means something different to every processor Numeric codes. String codes. Both, contradicting each other. 200 OK with failure buried in the body. Normalising this took us nearly a year. Still the most thankless ...