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Frank Louwers
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Entrepreneur/nerd. Currently building stuff with Kubernetes @ Krane Labs and playing with DNS @ DNSGuru. Loves 🥃 and⚡️🚗. (he/him) @frank_be on X
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88% van organisaties verspilt hun GPU-infrastructuur.
Niet door gebrek aan technologie.
Door gebrek aan expertise.
Een thread over de $70.000 vraag 🧵👇
#Kubernetes #CloudNative
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"In total, the median prompt—one that falls in the middle of the range of energy demand—consumes 0.24 watt-hours of electricity, the equivalent of running a standard microwave for about one second."

www.technologyreview.com/2025...

#stopTellingMeEveryAIQueryMeltsTheArcticIceC#stopTellingMeEveryAIQueryMeltsTheArcticIceCap
In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses
It’s the most transparent estimate yet from one of the big AI companies, and a long-awaited peek behind the curtain for researchers.
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August 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My Belgian / Dutch freelancing friends: factuursturen[.]nl/be is stopping their services end of September. What alternatives are on your radar? Invoicing, peppol, recurring, reminders, multiple templates, multiple languages, stripe- or mollie integration (although i can fix that with an API)
August 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Spent the afternoon testing another potential 🇪🇺cloud to add as an alternative to the big 3 US-based hyperscalers for our
@KraneLabs
customers. First time I am positive after 5 hours of testing. This all makes sense so far ... #eucloud
August 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ik werk 4 uur. Lever werk voor 8 uur. Factureer... ?

De grote vraag waar elke consultant mee worstelt sinds ChatGPT en Claude.

Nieuwe blogpost: 6 manieren om met AI-pricing om te gaan.
PS: Claude verzón eerst bronnen. Bleek niemand erover te schrijven 😅
De AI-factuur: Hoe reken je Claudine of Chad door aan je klanten?
Ik zit met een dilemma. En waarschijnlijk jij ook, als je dit leest en consultant bent. Claude (of ChatGPT, of welke AI-assistent je ook gebruikt) is ondertussen een onmisbare collega geworden. Maar hoe ga je daar in godsnaam mee om als je per uur factureert? Laten we eerlijk zijn: AI
www.frank.be
August 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Creatures of the night -
Creatures of the night, a Series by Frank — Glass
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July 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Those of my followers waking up to an avalanche of "The terms and conditions of…" mails from DNS Belgium: here is the page they should have linked to but didn't. Good thing my intern made it in 2m: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/93369acc-0b77-414c-97e8-db8c00b8f064
DNS Belgium Terms & Conditions: Key Differences v6.2 to v6.3 | Claude
DNS Belgium Terms & Conditions: Key Differences v6.2 to v6.3 - Markdown document created with Claude.
claude.ai
June 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
How Does Claude 4 Think? – Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken
New episode with my good friends Sholto Douglas & Trenton Bricken. Sholto focuses on scaling RL and Trenton researches mechanistic interpretability, both at Anthropic. We talk through what’s changed in the last year of AI research; the new RL regime and how far it can scale; how to trace a model’s thoughts; and how countries, workers, and students should prepare for AGI. See you next year for v3. Enjoy! Read the transcript: https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/sholto-trenton-2 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dwarkesh-podcast/id1516093381 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3H46XEWBlUeTY1c1mHolqh?si=b645971b1af546fa Last year's episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTuuTTnjxMQ ---------------------------------------- SPONSORS * WorkOS ensures that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic don't have to spend engineering time building enterprise features like access controls or SSO. It’s not that they don't need these features; it's just that WorkOS gives them battle-tested APIs that they can use for auth, provisioning, and more. Start building today at https://workos.com. * Scale is building the infrastructure for safer, smarter AI. Scale’s Data Foundry gives major AI labs access to high-quality data to fuel post-training, while their public leaderboards help assess model capabilities. They also just released Scale Evaluation, a new tool that diagnoses model limitations. If you’re an AI researcher or engineer, learn how Scale can help you push the frontier at https://scale.com/dwarkesh. * Lighthouse is THE fastest immigration solution for the technology industry. They specialize in expert visas like the O-1A and EB-1A, and they’ve already helped companies like Cursor, Notion, and Replit navigate U.S. immigration. Explore which visa is right for you at https://lighthousehq.com/ref/Dwarkesh. To sponsor a future episode, visit https://dwarkesh.com/advertise. ---------------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS (00:00:00) – How far can RL scale? (00:16:27) – Is continual learning a key bottleneck? (00:31:59) – Model self-awareness (00:50:32) – Taste and slop (01:00:51) – How soon to fully autonomous agents? (01:15:17) – Neuralese (01:18:55) – Inference compute will bottleneck AGI (01:23:01) – DeepSeek algorithmic improvements (01:37:42) – Why are LLMs ‘baby AGI’ but not AlphaZero? (01:45:38) – Mech interp (01:56:15) – How countries should prepare for AGI (02:10:26) – Automating white collar work (02:15:35) – Advice for students
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June 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
@nerdland.be twijfel tussen shuttles en park&bike. Vraagje over beide: gaan shuttles niet gewoon in de auto-file staan? Gaat capaciteit parking Wachtebeke centrum (om van daar te fietsen) groot genoeg zijn?
June 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
do not, I repeat, do NOT ever create a Tailscale account with an email address which doesn't belong to a company owned domain. Ever. If your Tailscale account isn't on a emailaddress in a company or private domain, please take immediate action asap:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1ksy3
Reddit - The heart of the internet
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May 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Of ik net een Guus Meeuwis cover aan mijn Liked Songs op Spotify heb toegevoegd? I might have …
May 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
It's early 1900. Are you the Farrier, the stable owner, or the Carriage builder?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/franklouwers_techoptimism-aifuture-innovation-activity-7329805549988892672-RWi1
#techoptimism #aifuture #innovation | Frank Louwers
I’ve noticed something interesting lately. Several people have reached out privately after seeing my comments or articles about AI, content where I express my tech optimism and belief that AI will transform our world similar to how the internet and smartphones did. What surprises me is that many of these conversations, often with professionals I respect from innovative companies, quickly turn to how AI could “eliminate headcount” or replace manual processes. This perspective puzzles me. Are we so focused on protecting our current roles that we’re missing the bigger picture of possibilities? It reminds me of the transition from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles. The farriers, stable owners, and carriage makers who thrived weren’t those who fought to preserve the status quo, they were those who recognized the shifting landscape and adapted. This exact mindset is why we founded Krane Labs. We saw that clinging to traditional old-school hosting infrastructure would leave us optimizing a declining paradigm. Instead, we embraced the public cloud and its transformative potential; not just to do the same things more efficiently, but to enable entirely new possibilities. Are you positioning yourself as the farrier desperately protecting the horseshoe business? Or are you preparing to build the next generation of vehicles? The most exciting opportunities won’t come from doing the same things more efficiently—they’ll emerge from entirely new possibilities we haven’t yet imagined. #TechOptimism #AIFuture #Innovation
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May 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Friday afternoon, sunny outside. 5PM. There's a Barcamp tomorrow. I haven't started my slides yet, but think I'll know what I will talk about. Some things never change :) #barcampantwerp
April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
When QUIC and AVG Antivirus don't play nice: solving a mysterious SSL error in Caddy https://www.frank.be/avg-free-errors-when-using-caddy/
April 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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ENGLAND: Could any country engage in an act of self-sabotage worse than Brexit?

USA: Pay more to hold my beer.
April 3, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Blossom tree in the twilight
Blossoms in the evening light
Frank on Glass
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March 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Het programma voor de zaterdag van @nerdlandbe heeft alles wat ik wil zien, wordt dit jaar een makkie om een dag te kiezen".

2 minuten later, met het programma voor de zondag open "oh, die zondag is minstens even goed, én DJ Bobby Ewing doet een talk".

2 minuten later het programma van maandag…
March 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
2025, als ik van mijn Franse bankrekening een overschrijving wil maken naar iemand die niet in mijn contacten zit, moet ik 48u wachten. Volgens sturen ze die eerst een fax of zo…
March 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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🚀CPU-limieten in Kubernetes? Slecht idee. Geheugenlimieten? Absoluut noodzakelijk.

✅ CPU = slaap in een legerunit – Geef het flexibel waar nodig.
✅ Geheugen = opslagruimte – Te veel nemen betekent minder voor anderen

#Kubernetes #K8s #DevOps #CloudNative #TechTips
February 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Heeft Kris Peeters al Code Rood aangekondigd? 🍷
February 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
archive.is/3Pp0U - Replace "UK" by "Russia / China" and "United States" by "EU". This, dear silly EU lawmakers, is why we absolutely need unbreakable end-to-end encryption.
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February 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Voor wie denkt dat Chatcontrol v2 (https://datanews.knack.be/nieuws/europa/wetgeving-europa/chatcontrol-wetgeving-deels-afgezwakt-berichten-scannen-wordt-optioneel/) onschuldig is: https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20250203_96883956
Chatcontrol-wetgeving deels afgezwakt: berichten scannen wordt optioneel
Met het Europese voorzitterschap van Polen, is het nu aan dit land om Chatcontrol opnieuw op de agenda te zetten. Nu woensdag is het aan
datanews.knack.be
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Security die wél werkt voor developers! 🚀 We zijn trots om onze samenwerking met @Aikido aan te kondigen. Hun dev-first security platform + onze Kubernetes expertise = minder gedoe, meer deployen. Plus: gratis licenties voor Enterprise klanten! Meer info: www.krane-labs.com/post/krane-l...
Krane Labs & Aikido: Security die Wél Werkt voor Developers
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January 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM