Máté Lang

Wow, I totally disagree with this statement. At the current state, AI actually amplifies the developer to developer difference. If you were a 10x developer, you had good ideas + architectural clarity, this is a brutal advantage when using AI. Steering is a fundamental part of today's AI development.

I have never in my life seen a major city where over 90% of the population are expats and openly agree their government genuinely wants the best for them. That city is Dubai. After living in 7 countries and being able to live anywhere in the world, I chose to live in Dubai. That wasn’t a coincidence. Most people in Dubai were NOT born and raised here. They CHOOSE to be here and they still support the UAE as if it were their own country. No one is forced to say good things about the government. That narrative is all social media bullshit that many people consume. I’m Argentinian. I never praised my own government. I lived in Spain and I never praised their government. Loving a country and defending its leadership are two different things. When I’m at a random house with friends in Dubai, no cameras, no agenda, everyone says the same thing. People are truly grateful. They all speak positively. Residents thanked the government after 96% of missiles and drones were intercepted. Trust increased, not decreased. Over 20,000 stranded tourists received free hotels and meals financed by Abu Dhabi. That’s not social media bs. That’s real action and empathy for people. EU countries or the US would never do that for their own people, do you think they’d do it for tourists? I’ve lived in enough places to know what a comfortable life looks like. I never told anyone to move to the other countries I lived in. Despite every negative experience I’ve had abroad, I have never hated an entire country. The hate the UAE or Dubai receives is baseless and envy-driven. I don’t trust people who blindly hate a country they’ve never lived in. You don’t have to agree with me, but at least experience a place before assuming you understand it because you went there once on holiday. I have love for ALL nations. I would rather die than hate a whole country or city.

“Do not be affected by circumstances as long as the house is united.” — His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates When the President of the United Arab Emirates says this, it carries more than reassurance. It carries a philosophy of state. The “house” is not just walls and borders. It is the people, the leadership, the institutions, the shared purpose. In the UAE, unity is security. Unity is stability. Unity is strength. We remain safe because our foundation is aligned. Our leadership is steady. Our society stands together as one home. That is why confidence here is a lived reality. 🇦🇪

@durov No country is perfect, but Dubai and UAE broadly are objectively safer and better run than many areas of Europe

I’ve been asked the same question again and again: Why would the Ayatollah’s regime attack Dubai? A city where nearly 200,000 Iranians live. A city where they built businesses, raised families, educated their children in world-class schools, and found opportunity. Why target a place that gave so many of their own people a future? And then it hit me. The answer is in the question. This is a regime that kills its own people inside Iran. Why would it hesitate to harm them outside? But there’s something deeper. Dubai wasn’t just a target. It was a symbol. Seventy miles across the Gulf stands a city that, to millions of Iranians, represents what Iran could have been - open, thriving, educated, diverse, confident. A place where business flourishes. Where coexistence is normal. Where over 200 nationalities live side by side, chasing dreams instead of fearing the state. That model is a direct contradiction of everything the Ayatollahs built their rule upon. So the attack wasn’t just against buildings or infrastructure. It was against an idea. Against a model of prosperity. Against proof that another path is possible on the same waters of the Gulf. Yes, the city has suffered a blow. Yes, it hurts. For those of us who love Dubai, who have built lives here, who have watched it become one of the safest and most dynamic cities in the world - this was personal. But here’s what the doubters don’t understand: Dubai’s strength has never been fragility. It has always been resilience. And when Iran is finally free from tyranny - when a new Iran rises - Dubai will not fade. It will thrive even more. It will become the gateway, the financial bridge, the transit hub for trade, energy, capital, and reconstruction. It will be the Hong Kong of a reborn Iran. The stepping stone between a free Iran and the global economy. The best days of this city are not behind it. They’re ahead. 🙌🏻🙂

European leaders when the World War 3 breaks out outside of the standard 9-5 working hours

*WW3 is about to start* The EU: “It is against our regulations to work weekends”

Peter Steinberger just proved his own point in real time. He built PSPDFKit in Austria, bootstrapped it for 13 years, exited to Insight Partners, then created OpenClaw, which became the fastest-growing GitHub project in history. Two days ago, he joined OpenAI and left Vienna for San Francisco. The Draghi Report quantified this exact dynamic last year: zero EU companies founded in the last 50 years have reached €100B in market cap. The US created every single trillion-dollar company in that same window. Combined market value of US companies in the global top 100 was 2.6x Europe’s in 2015. By Q1 2025, that ratio hit 7.6x. Today it’s approaching 9x. There are only 13 EU-founded companies under 50 years old worth more than $10B. Their combined market cap is $400B. The comparable US cohort is worth $30 trillion. That’s a 70x gap. And the gap is self-reinforcing. Europe’s labor regulations don’t just slow companies down. They change which companies get built. When you can’t scale a team fast, pivot hard, or compensate for intensity, you select for industries where that doesn’t matter: luxury goods, pharma, industrials. LVMH, Hermès, Novartis, Siemens. Safe bets, slow compounders. The entire EU has 18 companies in the global top 100. The US has 62. The tell is what Steinberger did with the choice. He had every reason to build OpenClaw into a standalone company in Europe. Investors would have funded it. Instead he looked at the regulatory environment, the cultural friction he describes in this thread, and picked the fastest path to impact: leave. Every founder doing this math reaches the same conclusion. And each one who leaves makes the math worse for the next one.

🇩🇪 German Chancellor Merz said Germany and Europe have wasted years of economic growth due to stalled reforms and excessive regulation. He said that the EU has become the world’s leading champion of overregulation.

BREAKING: The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses. An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online. That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values. In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers. I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection. In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders. THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

The European Union is not DEMOcracy – rule of the people – but rather BUREAUcracy – rule of the unelected bureaucrat!

My recent trip to Brussels for the @NATO Ministerial meeting left me with one overriding impression: the US has long failed to address the glaring inconsistency between its relations with NATO and the EU. These are almost all the same countries in both organizations. When these countries wear their NATO hats, they insist that Transatlantic cooperation is the cornerstone of our mutual security. But when these countries wear their EU hats, they pursue all sorts of agendas that are often utterly adverse to US interests and security—including censorship, economic suicide/climate fanaticism, open borders, disdain for national sovereignty/promotion of multilateral governance and taxation, support for Communist Cuba, etc etc. This inconsistency cannot continue. Either the great nations of Europe are our partners in protecting the Western civilization that we inherited from them or they are not. But we cannot pretend that we are partners while those nations allow the EU’s unelected, undemocratic, and unrepresentative bureaucracy in Brussels to pursue policies of civilizational suicide.

@damienghader @Lovable Cheat Sheet

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@GergelyOrosz Until these practices solidify I think I'll remain focused on engineering fundamentals and distributed systems theory. I feel like working with agents and prompting will be easier to learn and catch up with than that.

Today I randomly discovered Dubai has an absolutely massive solar farm???

@thekitze 💪! What platform is this?

lol i'm actually losing too much weight with #zerotoripped every day 0.1 to 0.5kg (~1lb) like clockwork i'll have to increase my calories or i'll end up being 80kg on september 1

"I have no interest in giving up writing code. That's not the unpleasant part that I want AI to take off my hands. Just so I can — what? — become a project manager for a murder of AI crows?" world.hey.com/dhh/coding-sho…

Vibe coding is the modern version of copy/pasting code you don’t understand from Stack Overflow. It seems fine at first, but at some point you need to understand how to code.

Everyone is a vibe coder. Nobody is a vibe debugger.