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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

We built an AI that: → Connects to your inbox and loads invoices, orders, etc. → Auto-extracts data from text + attachments → Shows everything for human review → Exports, after approval, to your CRM, etc. This saves us so much time. Built with @vercel.com AI SDK.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

There is not a single invoicing app for freelancers out there, offering these things: - no subscription, just pay per invoice - beautiful, professional invoices - just let me time-track and invoice. No bloat So I built my own. I don't know, is this for someone else too? Using @shadcn.com

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Just crazy. Anyone saying you can vibe-code yourself to a working SaaS is just lying. Just created this monster. I did not ask for this and used the Opus 4! AI is an awesome tool, but you are making a fool of yourself if you think you can autonomously AI-code a complete app.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I can't comprehend how the US - undisputed world leader in almost any area - simply threw all that away in less than 100 days, making it necessary for companies to basically distance themselves from the US. 200 years of hard work, thrown away in 100 days. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

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Microsoft announces new European digital commitments - Microsoft On the Issues

As a multinational company, Microsoft believes in trans-Atlantic ties that promote mutual economic growth and prosperity.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

No this is the wrong argument. Dems lost. Considering that their opponent is a convicted felon and sex offender, anything other than a sweeping victory has to be considered a dramatic loss. Dems need to stop excusing this absolute Desaster of an election. Sth. needs to change.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In this step-by-step tutorial, we break down: - Setting up Azure AI Search for RAG - Implementing efficient data indexing and retrieval - Integrating with Azure OpenAI for enhanced responses - Best practices for schema design and system optimization www.pondhouse-data.com/blog/rag-wit...

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Step-by-Step Guide: Building a RAG System using Azure AI Search

Build a RAG system with Azure AI Search: This step-by-step guide shows you how to integrate retrieval-augmented generation with Azure AI Search. Learn how to build more accurate and context-aware AI a...

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

This will go terribly wrong. AI is just not good enough for such an endeavour. I really hope it will go so terrible, that it's a wake up call for all the hype managers out there having no idea what AI is and what's not. (I'm saying that as AI enthusiast. But I'm also AI realist, I guess).

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Google just released Gemnini 2.0 Flash and it's amazing. One of the best if not the best model so far. We successfully bullied Google in creating the best AI model. 😅

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Great post by Amos Gyamfi about Multi-Agent application platforms. The post outlines, what multi-agent systems are, why you want them and then introduces the following tools to help with that: - Langraph (by LangChain) - AutoGen - CrewAI - Swarm (by OpenAI) - phidata medium.com/@amosgyamfi/...

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Best 5 Frameworks To Build Multi-Agent AI Applications

This article aims to help you build AI agents powered by memory, knowledgebase, tools, and reasoning and chat with them using the command…

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camwing @camw.ing · 05/12/2024

In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising. I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping. If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.

A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part:

"The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop."

Here's the whole paragraph:

We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

What do we all make of this? Is this good? Bad? For society I mean

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The worst thing for a company is, if Managers have too little work on their own plate. They'll annoy anyone else and reduce overall productivity in a company.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Calculating when you can is indeed a very good suggestion. People seem to forget that, so this reminder is well received. About the "guess" part: That's how any statistical method works. Don't think we should treat statistics as 2nd class - just different, with different use cases.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

In heated arguments about early feature optimisations, I sometimes sheepishly say "let's keep it as it is and let's add tracking to find what's really working", in an attempt to get out early and don't over-optimize. More often than not, the early prototype works great.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Why is this so accurate 😭

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Can you link some resources about this? The Facebook kicking off thing? Would love to read up on this.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

As a vim user myself: You're constantly telling yourselves (and others) how great the product is, no matter how much it hurts you. seems about right.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Isn't this division inevitable in a two party system? Tech are naturally opposed to Reps for their too narrow minded social construct (as tech got big by being global, protectionism/nationalism would kill them). Equally opposed to Dems as Tech is highly capitalistic. You'd need more options...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 30/11/2024

Please stop uncritically sharing "AI" generated bullshit. You're doing so much harm to yourselves and our overarching ability to create and certify knowledge and understanding as a society. I know that sounds hyperbolic, but it's honestly the stakes here. I'm literally begging you.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Generally speaking I agree. However maybe we should give Norway some slack here and wait for how they implement it. They have the highest standard of living and time and time again showed how to implement successful social reforms. Maybe we get a great blueprint for other countries.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Friend consults a company in established industry. The comp had no growth in the last 6 yrs. They introduced a new product which is a slight variation of an existing, 10y old one. A new manager started - predicting 35% total revenue growth yoy each year for the next 5 yrs. What does my friend do?

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Same Windows in Austria. And Switzerland. Also Denmark, Norway, Sweden, northern Italy and many areas of France. West-Hungary also has some great windows.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This looks delicious. Would you mind sharing the equipment you use? Beans, grinder, machine?

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is what I'm talking about. If we say we don't want to use bsky data externally - I'm in. Privacy is great. But if we allow it, we can't shitstorm if someone we don't like uses the data according to our own rules. For completeness & related: Huggingface is much more than CO2 jugging LLMs!

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Adriaan @adriaandotcom.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Created a Bootstrapped founder Starter Pack. People want to add interesting people fast. Hit add all if you want to follow interesting founders. Want in? DM go.bsky.app/E4f3eAx

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Jeremy talks about Email filters from the 90s. Which seems appropriately similar to predictive maintenance, in terms of when it got good and how it was created. 😇

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

It depends. Kinda yes. Your criticisms about AI are valid and nuanced (carbon footprint, illegal datasets). But you are not the sad people I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people who without any nuance just dump on the whole industry.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is literally a discussion I had on here about AI. One person argued that - and I quote - "AI does not work". I replied sheepishly with pcb routing. They asked if PCB routing uses AI. I said yes. They said then it's snake oil 😂 Your criticisms are valid. Saying AI doesn't work is stupid though.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

It's sad how many people blindly hate on AI without knowing what they are hating. As if things like predictive maintenance, pcb routing, communications were not AI for decades now and improved anyones lifes enormously.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

currently learning about espresso. Super interesting. Can't wait to finally make my own, delicious, brown goodness. I found this guy here to be not only super helpful, but very very relaxing. Give it a shot (pun intended) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTFs...

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Understanding Espresso - Dose (Episode #1)

YouTube video by James Hoffmann

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm astonished how many people on here literally hate "AI" - as in the technology. Not LLMs, but AI. As if almost any of the advancements made in the last 15 years were not assisted by any form of AI... Sad to see this blind hatred.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Yeah I guess you are right. We use some niche invoicing tool (we're an agency where stripe is not the perfect solution), where having xml support will be quite an investment on our side. But I can see that progress in this area should not be blocked by individuals. But, whether xml is progress... 😁

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

What I love so much about the OnlyPosts Feed here: You reload the page and you still have the same feed. It doesn't force you into this weird and addictive feed-reload just be reloading the page.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Wouldn't you need two additional software systems just to use this xml invoice? One to generate and one to view?

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ok to answer my own question: only services rendered between German companies are part of this ruling. I as an Austrian company can theoretically still issue pdf invoices. Doesn't make it less crazy though. Especially considering that we now have somewhat reasonable AI to read pdf invoices...

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This feels kinda crazy. Each and every invoice sent to German companies needs to adhere to that format?

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Yeah same. It was part of a starterpack I sheepishly used. Well... Starterpacks should be treated like potentially malicious executables from the Internet 😅

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is the content I'm here for. 😂

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The greatest unanswered question of all time. 😁 I think we don't, if we truly enjoy what we are working on. But most of us, including me, are overestimating how much they enjoy working. So there will be someone regret...

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I hate Azure with all my heart. The CLI, the ever-changing portal, the hundreds of different portals integrated in one. But, it's still the best cloud provider we have. 😬

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This is great stack and indeed gets you set up very quickly. One word of warning: you'll never get rid of them. If you ever get users, no one ever replaced eg. clerk or supabase with something else. That's the only thing to consider. Optimizing later is a myth. But mostly not necessary anyhow!!

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Highly interesting post about how to get AI to create meaningful reports. Many insights also for non-report use cases medium.com/firebird-tec...

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How to make more reliable reports using AI — A Technical Guide

Technical guide, sharing my experience of working with AI

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Jeremiah Lowin @jlowin.dev · 25/11/2024

Interviewer: what's your greatest strength? Me: i have exceptional hindsight Interviewer: that doesn't really help us Me: yes, i see that now

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

But why are they snake oil? I could build ...search for images which allows me to search for company internal images using image embeddings. Best internal image search so far. ...a software to sort files based on some content criteria. ...a sw to notify me if the layout of my dashboards is f"ed

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

One of the first starterpacks I used. Great people. The fun is back in social media.

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Andreas @andnig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

None of them are applications generating new text or images. Because for that they are sh"t. But for many other use-cases they are not so bad.

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