Hi HN, I'm the author.

As a Senior Frontend Developer, I've seen a lot of anxiety and excitement among my peers about AI's impact on our jobs (Copilot, etc.). It's clear the job description is being rewritten.

I decided to move past the simple "AI will/won't replace us" debate and write a structured analysis of how the skills are shifting—from 'implementation' to 'orchestration'.

I'm here to discuss. Curious to hear what this community thinks!

You see, this is the problem. Europeans always think about who they rely on, and never think about relying on themselves. And they give this behavior a high-sounding name: supply chain diversification

That's not a problem. The world is large. Europeans are leader on key sectors too like photolitography. Buying is ok as long as there are multiple options.

Mercantilism is an idea of the past. The main issue is that American are deluded enough to vote for someone who thinks it's relevant.

When one of your trade partner decides to commit suicide by imposing tariffs on everyone and threaten to not supply you anymore, the correct solution is not to turn inward for everything, it's to turn to other partners which are not acting like buffoons.

Supply chain diversification is certainly not a problem; it can even be considered excellent. However, supply chain diversification isn't the opposite of independence; it should be a complement to it. You need independent capabilities to survive external changes. Supply chain diversification, on the other hand, allows you to thrive even when external conditions are favorable.

The problem in Europe is that they've placed too much faith in supply chain diversification and almost completely abandoned independent capabilities.

> The problem in Europe is that they've placed too much faith in supply chain diversification and almost completely abandoned independent capabilities.

Dubious.

The question could be asked if you narrow the topic to IT services but even then it's unclear. Cloud key components are there, same for telecom. There is a gap when it comes to productivity software but the need is unclear for me. You could easily switch from Microsoft to Zoho or WPS if trully required. It's not like there is anything critical here. Most core business processes are structure around the ERP where SAP, the European offering, is king and Odoo is a solid European competitor.

AI, you have key components open sourced due to the international competition and the small European ecosystem ensures some talents are there at company like Mistral. Search is the only sector where Europe has nothing and the alternative to the US (Yandex, Baidu) would be dubious.

I know it doesn't fit HN prefered narrative but the European situation is honestly not that bad. Actually, hitting the American service industry hard in retaliation to the tariff would probably have been the best thing Europe ever did. Really a shame Germany is spineless.

Honestly, I think one of the main reasons these tools are cloud-based is that they're easier to monetize. Programmers are really into hacking, and it's hard to earn any real income from the tools you develop.

Yep, sounds like that to me too.

Pay-per-seat works well when no proper competition to go against it. What we built with http://voiden.md should be free forever, with monetization on plugins, but only the ones that introduce costs to the team.

The blessing was that the team was already profitable on another tool, and VC-independent, so nobody shoved some dumb design decisions down anyone's throat.

Because they're incredibly fast, exceeding 40 meters per second. You can't fire a shotgun at 80 meters. A typical shotgun's effective range is only 40 meters, and once it's within range, you only have one second to fire.

Furthermore, drones are generally difficult to detect at 400 meters unless you're using a synthetic detection system. By the time you spot them, it's too late.

I couldn't agree more! AI isn't a universal, omniscient god, but rather a human-created tool. The knowledge it possesses isn't necessarily correct and may even carry political biases. It would be extremely dangerous for a nation's top leadership to rely on AI.

Great! Both the interface design and functional interaction are very good. My only concern is how you will cover the server costs.

May be through google adsense if I can get some organic traffic

Receiving data from strangers is dangerous. While we generally consider iOS to be secure, but you know that there are numerous zero-day vulnerabilities. Who knows if this PDF file might contain a script that exploits one? Therefore, avoid accepting data from strangers and, ideally, change your AirDrop settings to "Contacts Only."

Yeah, that's about what I was thinking, that a zero-day would do it. Thank you. Fingers crossed.

Great, that will definitely simplify some of the coding. But if it could provide more simplified functions, it might be more attractive.

Thanks for the feedback. When you say simplified functions do you mean breaking up requests into their own functions like fetchet.get(...) and so on. Or making some of the utils I've written available as well?

I have the same issue on my mac with ms edge