@levelsio (Pieter Levels)
October 2026
ChatGPT in Germany in 2027 charges €0.05 per answer and taxes you again for being polite 𝕏
After France's Gigabyte tax and Germany's AI tax, Italy is proposing an exit tax because Europe is out of money 𝕏
European countries will keep clawing money from foreign companies as Europe runs out of money 𝕏
There seems to be an inverse correlation between social welfare spending and economic growth 𝕏
France will charge €0.055 per GB on all internet traffic 𝕏
What is happening in France will happen throughout Western and Southern Europe 𝕏
Most of my Dutch friends are burnt out and get a year of fully paid salary to stay home 𝕏
Spain's Transport Minister Oscar Puente gaslighting on rail safety is why nobody trusts politicians anymore 𝕏
I'm at the stage of AI psychosis that I feel I could vibe code a better government than Spain or the EU 𝕏
X should have a zero tolerance policy for AI replies 𝕏
Spanish trains are now one of the most dangerous modes of transport 𝕏
An Uber driver told me he killed a car thief in São Paulo and didn't feel bad about it 𝕏
If you understand basic economics the only one winning here is Big AI and Big Tech 𝕏
I spent all day having Claude Code security audit every VPS I have 𝕏
I recommend taking your VPS off the public internet with Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnel 𝕏
If you say this as a European you're instantly banished from any social setting in Western Europe 𝕏
I pre-emptively disconnected all my sites and VPS servers from the web until PHP is patched 𝕏
People won't update PHP fast enough and so many sites will get hacked 𝕏
I asked Claude Code to make a new GTA: San Andreas mission where CJ has to vibe code a startup and raise money in SF 𝕏
Poland is booming and shouldn't make the same mistakes Western Europe did 𝕏
Never agree on an earn out when you sell your business 𝕏
Warsaw is completely safe at 1am and there's a lot to learn from Poland 𝕏
We must pace the frontier in Europe because we're advancing too fast 𝕏
I'm scrambling to chase any remaining moats as AI companies suck up everything else 𝕏
Data brokers are buying SaaS data sets for $100,000 to $2,000,000 and reselling them to AI labs 𝕏
You can run Windows XP inside a tweet 𝕏
I'd expand the moats left to proprietary data, network effects, distribution, hardware, capital, and regulation 𝕏
You can get very rich helping IRL businesses transition to AI 𝕏
I've cancelled almost all my SaaS subscriptions and now my money only goes to content, data centers, power and governments 𝕏
Software is dead and it's now the era of personal software 𝕏
Normies won't know they're building software because their AI will do it for them 𝕏
Everyone will mostly use personal ephemeral software inside AI chat apps 𝕏
I discovered that thousands of bots monitor every new link posted on X 𝕏
Airbnb removes guest reviews whenever a host asks and that will destroy trust 𝕏
I will keep buying scarce coastal and mountain land with clean air 𝕏
I analyzed booking site ratings and Yelp is the only one with a distribution you can trust 𝕏
I made hotelist.com to fix Airbnb's 4.5 to 5.0 rating scale 𝕏
Javier Milei is offering full Argentinean citizenship for $350,000 𝕏
City states are attracting skilled Europeans with better living, working and regulatory conditions 𝕏
It's such a weird experience that I can now build things faster than I get new ideas 𝕏
Westerners keep having lower standards every year and don't notice the declining quality of everything around them 𝕏
An Apple Store in Dubai leaves Apple Watches lying freely by the open door 𝕏
EU bankruptcies have reached the highest level since 2019 while new business registrations stagnate 𝕏
