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Hi, I am Gerald, CEO of Django Web Studio. We are specialists in the web framework Django, hence the name, but more importantly we help companies manage their digital products. From design and marketing, maintenance and changes, and user support!

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This week we have the band Garbage doing a brilliant rendition of their hit single, Alexander Van Der Bellen, president of Austria, on why the EU should become a federation, why Switzerland loves a good referendum, elections in Aotearoa New Zealand. And of course its World Animal Day. And more…

Good News Sunday: World Animal Day, Stupid Girl, The Federated Nations of Europe, Swiss referendum…

This Sunday, we’ve World Animal Day, the 90s band Garbage, Federated Europe, the Swiss have chosen well, and elections in the country I…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Big Tech softens the hard stuff — and charges you rent for it. Building your own was prohibitively expensive, until agentic AI collapsed the cost. How we built a vendor-agnostic spin-up/tear-down fabric, and what's next -- maybe this: a data centre sitting on your desks? Or in your pocket?

Forget AWS, Azure and GCP. We’re bringing the Cloud back down to Earth.

By building our own vendor-agnostic combination of cloud providers and local compute, we’re turning away from Big Tech.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In this week’s Good News Sunday, how the German youth deals with the past, the music of Fiona Apple, the Rentier Black Hole explained, and a little black robin. Plus a longish section on why we might be misinterpreting the “swing to the right”.

Good News Sunday: German youth and the past, Fiona Apple, the Rentier Black Hole, and a Little…

In this week’s Good News Sunday, how the German youth deals with the past, the music of Fiona Apple, the Rentier Black Hole explained, and…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Django delivers solidity and security to web applications. Applications that a business can rely on to weather any storm. But Django can be more of a hindrance than a help, so I turned to unstructured Typer Python. The adventure brought me a lot. But now we're back to Django and I'm home again.

In the chaotic landscape of Agentic AI for coding, the web framework Django offers stability and…

Django’s hyper-opinionated, “batteries-included” philosophy has turned from a rigid constraint into its greatest defence mechanism against…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This week: Tamantha Paul and the elections in New Zealand, Cowboy Junkies with Sweet Jane, how to unbox a pavilion, Werner Herzog on Fitzcarraldo, Geoffrey Hinton on why he thinks AI really understands. Plus news from within the EU: Spain, Germany and France.

Good News Sunday: Tamantha Paul, Sweet Jane, A Brilliant Unboxing, Werner Herzog, Geoffrey Hinton.

Elections in New Zealand, a Lou Reed cover, Unboxing a pavilion, Fitzcarraldo, AI, and more.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

For some getting on the news is what they breathe for. For a few, it’s how they become very, very wealthy. The next time you see three very wealthy company owners proclaiming that their products are dangerously powerful, remember that they’re salesmen first, truthtellers second. Or not at all.

My product is so earth-shatteringly powerful that it needs to be caged.

It’s the ultimate marketing ploy. And we believe it? Let’s just get back to work.

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This week: Korean traditional music in the 21st century, sculptures made by beavers, why EU payments are so cheap, EU rockets, and Naomi Klein.

Good News Sunday: Korean music, beaver sculptures, EU payments are cheaper, EU in space, and Naomi…

This week: Korean traditional music in the 21st century, sculptures made by beavers, why EU payments are so cheap, EU rockets, and Naomi…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This recent story by whistleblower Jacob Coxon, warning that both Anthropic and OpenAI are “acting irresponsibly”, even “gambling with our lives” is just a mirror image of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proclaiming that Artificial Super Intelligence could be reached very soon. Both are after headlines.

How to make sense of the doomsday stories about AI destroying us?

It’s most certainly also marketing. Whistleblowers self-aggrandising. But there’s also something real in stories that tell us AI is out to…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This week: the kākāpo population surges, Canada unplugging America and floating islands, an unlikely advantage of Brexit, and microtonality. Plus some bad news from former DDR (East Germany). medium.com/@gmdekkers/g... PS: Bluesky has problems parsing a link with the kākāpo's "ā"

My fav NZ bird

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Our resumé lists our accomplishments. We take pride in what we’ve done. How does it feel though, when AI can do it all better, and faster? Our capital as a company is in the effort and expertise put into successful software products. Is that past tense? Has our capital just been devalued by AI?

I’ve always said, my capital is the code I wrote. Has AI made my capital worthless?

In one afternoon, AI can write the code that took me years. Where does that leave me?

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This week: the origin of the cartoon, Paula Carolina’s Otto Normal, A Little Help From My Friends, Henry Kissinger’s foresight, Yayoi Kusama dead at 97. We end with Iceland.

Good News Sunday: Cartoons, Paula Carolina, Joe Cocker, Henry Kissinger, Yayoi Kusama, Iceland Says…

This week: the origin of the cartoon, Paula Carolina’s Otto Normal, A Little Help From My Friends, Henry Kissinger’s foresight, Yayoi…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

AI is a revolutionary technology the scope of which we've yet to discover. But we struggle with AI. Electricity was the revolution of the late 19th century. The public struggled with it's danger, the work tempo their masters demanded. But the masters struggled too. With the erosion of their class.

Don’t forget: Romanticism was a reactionary movement.

AI is telling us that we’re as much a machine as it is. We fight that notion with all our heart. Like the Romantics before us.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This week, a raving mix of music and politics, music and culture, and music. We end with how tiny Kaliningrad is shaping Nato / Eu military action.

Good News Sunday: music, The Buzzcocks, more music, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Trevor Noah…

This week, a raving mix of music and politics, music and culture, and music. We end with how tiny Kaliningrad is shaping Nato / Eu military…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“We live in exciting times”. Well, times were always exciting, I suppose. These times seem exceptionally exciting. We've changed more in the last 6 months than in the entire 15 years of our existence, becoming a fully automated version of our company. But it IS kinda quiet at our Monday meetings..

What’s the difference between coding and operations? With AI, not so much.

AI is bringing together software development and operations. But who is responsible for the outcome?

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Musique and old music, velvet music and ||gai-tsen, ceol, more ceol and then music again. And -- Steve Jobs.

Good News Sunday: Steve Jobs and other music.

Musique and old music, velvet music and ||gai-tsen, ceol, more ceol and then music again. And — Steve Jobs.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Coding will be gone in two years. That’s not only what the pundits say. That’s also what the most AI-savvy guy on our team says. But what he also says is this: don’t be a slave of Big AI. Yes, it’ll be hard. And no, it won’t be as fast. But with the smarts of true coders, we can get there.

It’s time to ask the question: is being a coder in the age of AI a fool’s errand?

AI is replacing coders, not code. And let’s be clear — all automation is replacing labour by capital. What’s different now is who owns it.

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This week: the future of software, rare snowfall, dancing children in Aotearoa, Gary Stevenson on trillionaires, and what binds the ancient lands of the EU.

Good News Sunday: OaaS, Where Snowfall Makes The Papers, Aotearoa Dances, Tax Wealth Not Wages.

This week: the future of software, rare snowfall, dancing children in Aotearoa, Gary Stevenson on trillionaires, and what binds the ancient…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

From Aug 2, the EU AI Law has become enforceable. Which means that noncompliance could be sanctioned. What does that mean for software companies like ours? I find it distressing that while we here struggle to find EU-only AI solutions, the EU is enforcing the strictest AI laws in the world.

What’s up with the EU’s AI Law?

The EU AI Act has become enforceable from Aug 2 2026. In a slow horse EU that produces next to zero capable AI models.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In this week’s Good News Sunday: how Conways Law shapes products, China is complicated, old, but still learning, English is a bastard language, and how to survive as a classic internet company in an AI world.

Good News Sunday: Conways Law, China, New Zealand, SEO, Ceuta

This week: Conways Law, China is complicated, English is a bastard language, and how to survive as a classic internet company in an AI…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Bottom-up vs top-down. I often get asked that when discussing my management style. Wrong question. We need both the chaotic creativity and the structure brought on by our strict PM. The emergent third way, where opposites merge into something new, that’s what brings us forward.

The awesome machine we unconsciously make.

We’re egotistic individuals who unknowingly build a more or less altruistic whole.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

In this week's Good News Sunday: robots failing, Jools Holland is with it, time is not what you might think it is, how natural phenomena bring revenue.

Good News Sunday: it feels like home.

In this week’s Good News Sunday: robot fail, double, triple, quadruple; Jools Holland is not stuck in the past; quantum physics and time…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A recent publication by Anthropic suggests AI might be “slightly conscious”. If true, it would have serious repercussions for us using AI from day to day. Would we have to treat it like an employee? Give it a day off? That all seems silly. And I think it's indeed that. Here’s why.

Is AI conscious and why would we care?

Studies at Anthropic suggest that their AI could have some form of consciousness. Could that be true? Or is it just marketing wrapped up as…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This week: Dua Lipa talks about the Flamingo revolution in Albania, Enrico Letta about the fallacy of nationalism in Europe, and Damian Boeselager about Trumps finger on the button of the kill switch.

Good News Sunday: stand for European sovereignty

This week: Dua Lipa talks about the Flamingo revolution in Albania, Enrico Letta about the fallacy of nationalism in Europe, and Damian…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

For more I use AI, the more I see it's flaws. Real intelligence is more than breaking language apart and putting it back together again. It needs real experience, movement. AI is stuck in 19th century thinking about what thinking is. Like Rodin's Thinker. Sitting there won't help. Get up and move!

What we do with our hands while thinking.

You fidget with your hair, rub chins and cheeks, perform magic tricks with your biro — Rodin’s “the thinker” in static pose is totally…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thia week: veteran politician Neil Kinnock says the UK must rejoin the EU, about cheap Chinese AI, data is the new currency, a performance art drama, twice derangement, and New Year is Now.

Good News Sunday: sometimes it’s too little, sometimes it’s just too much.

Thia week: veteran politician Neil Kinnock says the UK must rejoin the EU, about cheap Chinese AI, data is the new currency, a performance…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Before there was language, there was music. Enter this sentence into AI — what do you find? “Neurological imaging shows that language and music share deeply intertwined neural circuitry.” “Before words [..] communal singing and rhythm served to synchronize nervous systems” We’re all just dancing.

All dancing to the rhythm of the AI vibe.

Even the captains of industry are captured by the algorithm.

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

AI needs to be kept on a tight leash. Or bad things will happen. You use Agentic AI for coding do you? You need structure, architecture, a framework, a plan. Rules. I found it out when — for once — I started with a goal but no structured plan or framework. But what happened was not all bad.

My AI surprised me by telling me about creativity.

I probably shouldn’t have been surprised. My AI has read everything there is to know about creativity.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This week: Gabriel Zucman on taxing the rich, more on the Flamingo Revolution, Old Music Friday, About Ubuntu, the Real Bob Dylan. And — what the countries surrounding Albania say about the Flamingo Revolution.

Good News Sunday: it can only get worse before it gets better.

This week: Gabriel Zucman on taxing the rich, more on the Flamingo Revolution, Old Music Friday, About Ubuntu, the Real Bob Dylan. And —…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

When you’re young you’re always surprised. Obviously. Most you’ve never seen before. After a bit — as you grow older — you shrug off surprise. Ugh. Seen it all before. Let’s stick to what we know. But that’s not how it works.

Everyone is trying to build the next big thing that nobody yet knows they will want real bad, real…

What comes after AI? After something artificial, something authentic, we’re told. That’s not how it works.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Just two weeks ago the news hit that the US government had restricted the use of Anthropics frontier models to US citizens. Unable to comply, Anthropic then shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 altogether. And now - after 2 weeks - the administration lifted the ban. But, you know what? We don’t care.

AI is boring and that’s just the way we like it.

How quickly we’ve gone from hysterical excitement to just another day at work.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Seems there are two AI’s: one frightening, after our jobs and livelihood, sucking scarce water and energy away from us. And the other able to grasp solutions impossibly out of reach for humans. We’re practical people, we here at our software company. We use AI on a tether. We make the rules.

We don’t use AI to solve life’s problems, we use it to write code.

Problems of ethics weigh less when we use AI with rules, to build tools.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This week’s Good News Sunday is entirely dedicated to Brexit, ten years after. Ten years ago, almost to the day, the population of the UK decided, in an ill-conceived and ill-timed referendum, to leave the EU by the slightest of margins. So, UK, how’s that working out for you?

Good News Sunday: will bitter love be sweetened?

There was never much love lost between the British and “the Continent”. If they were ever to return, it would be with the reservations of a…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

There are two worlds when it comes to AI. At work, we can’t stop talking about our latest achievements. But at home I tend to watch my words. My children don’t like AI — it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say they HATE it. For reasons. All heartfelt, don’t doubt it for a second. So what to do?

What to do about the hatred for AI?

There’s a loathing of AI within the general public, it’s undeniable. What’s the answer — The AI of the people? Little AI? A name change?

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

As we're based in Amsterdam, things such as they are, we’d rather keep our processes within the EU. If you want to stick to EU-only AI, you’re going to have a hard time. There’s EU's Mistral. But still no match for US models. The MOST capable US models are now being kept from us. So what's next?

Where are our EU hosted Chinese AI models?

Last week, the news hit that the US government had ordered Anthropic to hold back it’s new models for use outside of the USA. To be…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Every automation revolution has its downsides. The current one -- the AI revolution -- no less. We're embracing a technology that's taking us yet further from "reality". But -- so what?

So what that we’re losing experience, knowledge and understanding to AI?

Not for the first time, we’re devolving first-hand experience to automation. And what’s so bad about that?

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

In this Good News Sunday: the fragile relationship between the UK and the EU, the US banning AI models is playing right into our hands , the Albanians are not giving up, and rats. Plus — whats in the news today.

Good News Sunday: solstices, summer and winter.

This week — is the UK rejoining the EU, the US keeping the best AI models for themselves, Albanians not giving up, and — rats.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI has shown the folly of catering for the whims of the search engine gods. Search engines are being superseded and repurposed. The business of crawlers is now to feed AI. And of the greatest search engine of them all, Google, you might ask yourself: does it still care?

Google no longer cares if you’re being found on the internet.

A chatbot answers your questions in real time. No need to go to the websites that feed them.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

The traditional business models of the internet are failing. CPU cycles are being eaten by bots crawling the internet, feeding AI. At the same time, the human attention span is being captured by social media and chatbots. Internet entrepreneurs who used to rely on high traffic need to pivot.

Trust is the business model of the post-human internet.

AI bots outnumber humans 1000 to one. But bots don’t buy. Humans do.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

In this Good News Sunday: how a real estate development scheme in Albania starts in a chain of interconnected shell companies registered in the Netherlands (but Albainains are fighting back), a reclusive artist in the most famous Chelsea Hotel, David Hockey dead at 88 but lives on.

Good News Sunday: waiting in line.

Kushner’s real estate venture in Albania hits a snag, a reclusive artist, a not so reclusive artist, and the countries queuing up to join…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

AI is a remarkable new technology. As a small software company, using Agentic AI, we know that to be true. It’s the technology of the decade. Every decade brings new tech, and new hope, and every decade fails. Why? AI just a new kind of hammer. It’s what you’re building that counts.

Whatever the future might bring, it won’t be “because” of AI. It’s something much brighter.

AI is a convenient way of turbocharging our imagination. But we still need to imagine the right kind of future.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Hey, SEO people out there — we’re in another era. AI is coming for our data and it doesn’t care about keywords. Young people text with their friends and ask AI about the next fad without ever touching a web browser. The business model of the internet is changing fast. We need to pivot.

What’s the use of Search Engine Optimisation in a post-search-engine world?

We have a client in the HR industry. We recently launched a new frontend platform for them — I say “we” but it was actually initiated by…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We’ve been working really hard these past few months, to incorporate the winnings we gain from Agentic AI into our business model. It’s not really a strategy yet. But we have tactics — to be more flexible, more disciplined, more efficient. Here’s how.

Tactics in the Land of Agentic AI.

To have a strategy is to incorporate uncertainty into long term goals. We don’t have a strategy yet. But we have tactics.

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

This week in Good News Sunday: Denmark has a new government, same as the old one, the EU needs to be less risk-adverse, understanding Quantum Physics, Aotearoa Pride, and In The EU News Today.

Good News Sunday: whomever it may help.

This week: Denmarks has a new government, same as the old one, the EU needs to be less risk-adverse, understanding Quantum Physics…

Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Yay. We can build software ten times faster using Agentic AI. The same software. But ten times faster. Is that all? It doesn’t feel like the cultural shift that was promised.

Will AI Have A Punk Rock Moment?

Is AI not just more of the same, but faster? If it’s a cultural revolution, it sure doesn’t feel like it.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s easy to predict the future if you know what happened. It’s easy to predict suburban living if you know that was an outcome of the industrial revolution. AI will occupy territory we currently consider infertile, or territory we currently don’t even consider territory.

About the Futility of Moats in the Age of Agentic AI.

What’s a word that describes an excessively expensive measure taken to defend one’s stake when it’s obvious that the context of that stake…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Remember those discussions about AI “rights”? There are even organisations set up specifically to “protect” AI. If it talks to us, it’s natural that we consider it sort of conscious — maybe human. At least, we did. AI is changing us. We are changing. Every revolution produces its own humans.

I talk like an AI. I write like an AI. So what? It’s natural.

We have the artist-king carving his face into Mt. Rushmore. And we aren’t allowed to sound just a little like an AI?

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This week: tinkering, tubular bells, government app notifications sold to the US, Karangahape Road, youthful drummers hit on YouTube, home batteries power Australia, and the news in Europe today.

Good News Sunday: it’s just so much.

In this week’s Good News Sunday, don’t we love tinkering, tubular bells, government app notifications sold to the US, Karangahape Road…

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Execution. Most definitely execution. Not execution of systems, we have AI. The bottleneck is where humans need to talk to other humans to get things done. Humans are sooooooo slow.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Remember when building million dollar web enterprises took only a simple workstation and some late nights? Those were the days! Fictitious. It took decades before prices dropped to that level. Same for AI. Prices are high, and Big AI profits. But the AI Revolution has only just begun.

Addicted to the token: how much does your habit cost?

We’re ten times more productive but the Big Tech dealer bro’s are the winners.

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Django Web Studio @djangowebstudio.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We’ve been using Agentic AI to automate the production work — great. But now we’re discovering how to automate the other stuff. The stuff, in larger firms, management does, executives do. We’re building ourselves a Business OS.

Business OS: The Gurus Talk About It, We’re Building It.

Agentic AI and I. Together we’re building an autonomous business machine. Well, almost autonomous.