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Claude Code only got good maybe a few months ago, so this only recently started happening, so I assume they will emerge from the spiral eventually.

This is an interesting note because more than a year ago we had people proclaim that AI coding was going to be the future without being anywhere near the inflection point of November 2025.

As companies grow, they all end up with more and more layers of collaboration, review, and management. Why? Because otherwise mistakes get made, and mistakes are increasingly expensive at scale.

The secret is, you have to get your engineers to engineer higher quality into the whole system, from top to bottom, repeatedly.

All extremely valid points.

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No individual in the organization will ever have an accurate mental model about how the entire system works. To put it simply: It’s the stuff we don’t know that bites us. There’s always stuff we don’t know.

It sounds so simple but the amount of work and trade-offs involved in getting to a single list of priorities is where a lot of the difficult work lives.

Europe has lots of significant industries and capabilities. There is nothing stopping us from having a competitive local cloud offering (except of course the lack of political will).