Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
Most People Watch the Wrong Tokens
Everyone obsesses over input tokens and prompt caching. The output side is where the money and the wall-clock time actually go, and it is the side almost nobody tries to shrink. Here is how I tested whether Smoower.Minified really moves that needle, and the swaps that turned out to save nothing.
Smoower.Minified: The .NET Boilerplate Tax Is Paid in Tokens
I kept watching Claude burn output tokens writing the same verbose C# scaffolding over and over. Smoower.Minified is a set of C# aliases that cut the token cost of generated .NET roughly in half, with identical compiled IL. This is version 0.1.
Sovereignty Has No Free Tier
I tried to run a side project without a single US company touching it. Turns out Cloudflare's free tier makes building almost free, and nothing in Europe or Germany comes close. That missing free tier is quietly killing companies before they're ever founded.
The Companies AI Can't See
Smoower scans more than a thousand orgs a day, and the clearest pattern is not who's winning DevRel. It's how many companies are functionally invisible to AI agents. No real README, no llms.txt, nothing an agent can use to understand what they do. Here's why that's the next visibility crisis, and what we're doing about it.
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#.