Tim Cadenbach
Creator of www.smoower.com, ex Head of community @DeepL, thinking about AI, DevRel, Code and Community
Latest Posts
GPT-5.6 Is Very Good. You Need Washington's Permission to Use It.
OpenAI's new flagship model looks excellent. It also shipped with something I've never seen on a commercial product before: an access list that was, in OpenAI's own words, shared with the US government. The sovereignty argument I kept waving off just got a very concrete shape.
Europe Is Finally Building a Frontier Model. The Money Says Otherwise.
The EU just picked a team to build an open-source frontier model in all 24 languages. It's the right move, honestly. Then you look at what OpenAI loses in a single month, and at why Mistral's reasoning story stalled, and the size of the bet gets hard to ignore.
Smoower Now Answers the Two Questions Every Builder Actually Asks
Developers and the AI assistants they use both size up a company from its public GitHub footprint in minutes. I'm rebuilding Smoower around the two questions they're really asking: is this good enough to build on, and is anyone paying attention.
Europe Has the Apps. Nobody Uses Them. Here's Why.
Everyone blames the Cloud Act for why we're all still on Discord and Slack. But the EU alternatives mostly exist, and some of them are good. The reason they never get traction isn't the one we keep telling ourselves.
Recent Projects
A library that turns your model into a fully working API, define your model as markdown (soon), json or c#.
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