[Barrin92]

yes, I was never so happy to work in Germany. People used to joke about the proverbial fax machine still being a thing but I've never been so glad to work in a culture where this mania doesn't exist. Reading HN is like entering Alice's Wonderland of token maxxers and AI psychotics. Genuinely don't know a single person here who is forced to work like this.

[spacechild1]

Actually, I have been wondering to which extend the AI craze has reached the DACH region. I don't work for any company and neither do my friends. HN is essentially my only peephole into the world of commercial software development and I'm aware that it's extremely biased towards Big Tech and SV startup culture.

[perlgeek]

I can give you a single data point from Germany.

I work at a hosting provider that has pretty conservative customers who don't want to host on AWS/Azure due to data privacy / safety concerns, among other things.

For us, sending customer data to the US is a big no-go.

We have been experimenting with LLM usage, first through a Gemini subscription, then also with the Claude API. Participation has been lightly encouraged by management. As for coding, we haven't let the LLMs loose on our core components, but tooling on the fringes (like deployment scripts, reporting) has seen some uptick in LLM usage.

We have also started building an on-premise inference cluster, which is in alpha testing, and where the "don't include customer data" restriction doesn't apply anymore.

[alexnewman]

Ah so it's like 2000 again. Germany will go even farther behind it seems

[kuschku]

Germany is standing at the abyss. America is one step ahead.

[billywhizz]

this is social media induced psychosis my friend

[dxdm]

I have this image in my head of people flushing their country down the toilet and going "wheeee!" while they're getting spun around.

[OtomotO]

If the people that walk before you go into the abyss, staying behind isn't wrong.