Oxford Ionics, acquired by U.S.-based IonQ, was one of the six spinouts out of Switzerland, the U.K., and Germany that delivered exits of more than $1 billion to their investors in 2025.
Yup… The European exit strategy. Make a startup and get bought by America
I loved python when I was a junior dev. Now I hate it (except for things like computational math). I have to add debug statements to figure out that someone snuck in the wrong type into the code.
https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2025/11/03/16/19/mon-melatonin-aha-2025
Link to the study for onlookers
They should honestly just wrapper the majority of the code base in rust unsafes and then slowly very slowly migrate sections of the code to rust. This is the right way to do it imo
Will they do that? Nope.
Nobody is truly reviewing that stuff. Would you if you were in that job? Just blame mistakes on AI
Are there any instances of this? It looks promising
Is there an alternative way to contribute to them? I would happily send money directly to the artists, but I don’t know how
I find that it basically can’t do decent architecture. My last attempt to use it ended with it using casbin, but then rewriting it’s own authorization framework and trying to use both at the same time 😶.
I think there is a lot of power here, but it needs very heavy guidance and handholding to do it well. Otherwise it makes very stupid intern level decisions
Ideally they’d compare time to write + time to fix. My experience is that if you use test driven development, LLM isn’t too bad. No worse than an intern.
I think it comes down to who is using the LLM. I had a junior dev once “presumably” AI gen a ton of code (broken trash). Then to fix it, they wrapped each function in a try catch block that dropped the error. Unit tests were mocked out to the extent they didn’t test anything.
When I use an LLM, I have tests and hard constraints on the LLM. It isn’t good enough to do everything, but it can generate about 80% of a simple app
Is it really 100%?! How much to import from the US? And China?