simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

no zero sum games software engineer @getsentry 🏊‍♂️ 📷 💻 blog: https://t.co/sNGNa19n9L Vienna, Austria Joined May 2018

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

2 days ago

very much lines up with my experience - the strongest application of LLMs at the moment is to unstuck otherwise proficient professionals on tricky but fairly irrelevant subproblems (irrelevant because eg SA does not intrinsically care about the math, it's merely a tool here)

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2 days ago

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

a week ago

if you're looking for a way to make your mark in the world, you need to take initiative. but don't be surprised if the downstream effects are very different from what you expect them to be! hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-2…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

2 weeks ago

want to share some stats: a bit over a month ago, i started blogging again after many years - just putting things out into the world has consistently been the most rewarding strategy in my life. looking forward to the work I get to put into this in the coming months and years :)

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

2 weeks ago

It can be quite hard to figure out what to do with your life when you're starting out, and how to align your interests, skills with what the world needs from you - I wrote down what I wish I knew when I started out: hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-1…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

3 weeks ago

gemini, you‘re great, but i don‘t need to be reminded of your existence every single time i open any kind of google page

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

3 weeks ago

sorry of course i meant, tech that feels like a 1992 gasometer rave ( cc @iambriccardo ) youtu.be/LLFSf4WnSrY?si…

simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

3 weeks ago

sorry of course i meant, tech that feels like a 1992 gasometer rave ( cc @iambriccardo ) youtu.be/LLFSf4WnSrY?si…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

3 weeks ago

tech that feels like a 2011 warehouse rave

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

3 weeks ago

for a long time, i've been thinking about what the difference between good and bad explanations is - now i took some time to write down some thoughts: hellmayr.com/blog/2025-09-0…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

4 weeks ago

there is a difference between wanting the capability to do something, and enjoying the activity itself

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Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger

4 weeks ago

“AC this, wash dryer that, US woohoo, EU boohoo” - Why are we eating this brand-warfare from the outside about us up? Europe has the strongest precision manufacturing in the world, we have leading teams in AI, CV, robotics. Europe is a leader in Automation and Frontier Tech!…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

4 weeks ago

all my life i wondered what the trick to a good beef broth was. turns out it was following the canonical recipe 🤔

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

a month ago

if you want a village, you gotta be the village

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

a month ago

who you should take advice from hellmayr.com/blog/2025-08-3…

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

a month ago

i recently started writing blog posts again (i used to, a long time ago, but all of that is gone now), and the most fascinating moment is when during proof-reading, you realize it applies to your life in a different way than you intended while writing it

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simon hellmayr 🇪🇺 @shellmayr

a month ago

tech soirée vienna today was a really really good event with @mitsuhiko @andreasklinger @badlogicgames and many more 🚀 hope to see more of these popping up soon