Tim Cadenbach
Head of Community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
Four Months of AI Chaos, Then a Hotel in Rhodes
Four months of AI noise, a layoff, and the entire tech industry rewriting its rules. Then I walked into a hotel in Rhodes and absolutely nothing was different.
Getting Laid Off from DeepL and What That Means Now
Getting laid off in 2026 is not a clean verdict on your talent or your work. It is often a collision between restructuring, AI leverage, capital pressure, and a market rewriting its rules in real time.
Claude In Orbit: The Anthropic-SpaceX Deal And The Environment Question
Anthropic just signed for SpaceX's Colossus 1 and floated multi-gigawatt orbital data centers. Funny on the surface. Less funny when you look at where AI infrastructure is actually heading.
Engineering Was Always Product-Led. AI Just Made It Impossible to Hide.
The engineer who only wrote tickets and never cared about the product was already on borrowed time. AI didn't create that problem. It just turned the lights on.
Recent Projects
Drop-in proxy to make any MCP server, LLM and any HTTP+JSON API speak multiple languages easily. Powered by DeepL..and it can do way more!
Desktop application for Windows and Mac that gives live, translated, subtitles and translated audio for ANY audio on your system. Youtube, Discord..you name it!
DeepL for Visual Studio Code
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.