The EU and local governments are pissing me off, with their constant mediocrity and will to control (regulate) everything. I think I'm not the only in the tech community, and broader business/entrepreneurial/independent workers.
It feels like there is a political cast constantly trying to assert its power, money and privileges, while the actual management, public services and broader results in comparison to how much the governments taxes are way below par. It feels like a mafia taking "protection" money...
I'm also European and I cannot agree more with you.
This, combined with the fact that dictators and authoritarian leaders like Orbán and Fico, are not being sanctioned to hell. EU let Orbán turn Hungary into an autocracy since 2012, and even with all the human rights violations, spying on EU officials with Pegasus spyware, allowing Chinese and Russian spies in EU soil, the EU still cannot proceed towards blocking their voting power because the stupid bureaucrats think they can get Fico and Orbán to change their mind.
We need people with the same make-do mentality as these two in the EU, but that actually defend EU principles. So they can say like "oh, you're violating the EU charter here, we've warned you several times and you're not complying. Okay. from now on all those 22 billion you would receive are not going to you anymore. You lost that money."
Take off the EU funds and these countries will very quickly fix the issues the EU pointed out. They don't help the EU with any money and probably will be like that for the next decades.
Imagine how disruptive Chat Control would be in the hands of the autocrats...
You can use many other models, 4o, Anthropic, Groq's... However, cheaper models from Groq (Llama 3.1, Mistral) tend not to follow instructions so well and the results are a bit off the rails.
Anyone did it with a smaller/distilled version, and getting good performance?