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we still have a couple of spaces reserved for Product/UX designers for our second Everyday AI Club next Tuesday at workish. Not a designer? You can still come. We will do final approvals for the few remaining spots on the weekend. Hope to see you there…

Or at our 6th or 7th Build your first AI App workshop: one on a Saturday, the 25th of July and the last one before our summer break on the 30th of July.

Don’t wait too long. They sell out because we run small groups with high quality.

📌 Pinned

AI can do many things, but it cannot easily replace the human in the loop (yet?). Ford tried and found out… that feeding design requirements into AI doesn’t produce a high-quality product, so they needed to hire veteran engineers to reprogram the underperforming AI/automated quality tools.

It was interesting to read comments on HN, and a comment that really made me think was that “AI replacing humans” is the same story as offshoring was in the mid-2000s: leadership cuts headcount for a quick boost to the financials, only to discover a few quarters later that the expertise they offshored actually can't be cheaply replaced, and they end up paying to bring it back. (Does anyone remember Klarna doing it?)

Related, it does make one wonder if recent layoffs at Meta are responsible for my WhatsApp hallucinating unread messages (desktop vs phone). Only time will tell. Until then, let me just upload some content to my Instagram so that I can help Meta make some money with ads.

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👀 Jobs

Since we are refreshing jobs weekly, I changed the date filter approach. And I also went through the “Other” category again and made big improvements (now down 20%).

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💸 Funded in Germany

  1. Theo | Berlin | AI-native property management platform | €25M Series A | Careers.

  2. Almetra (ex Deltia) | Berlin | AI process analytics for shop floors | €16.3M Series A | Careers.

  3. Nomerra | Berlin | AI for private markets operations | $2M | Careers.

  4. CoTrainer | Cologne | Management app for football clubs | €1M | Careers.

  5. Fusion Bionic | Dresden | Bio-inspired laser surface tech | €5.8M seed | Careers.

  6. Wakeline | Düsseldorf | AI that learns in production | €2.1M pre-seed | Careers.

  7. Finn | Munich | Car subscription platform | €140M Series D | Careers.

  8. SE3 Labs | Munich | 3D digital twins from imagery | €5.5M seed | Careers.

  9. Maple Aviation | Munich | Autonomous medical delivery drones | €4M | Careers.

  10. mkind | Munich | Robots for high-mix manufacturing | €3M | Careers.

  11. Innok Robotics | Regenstauf | Autonomous industrial mobile robots | €3.3M | Careers.

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📅 Events

This week we reviewed 83 upcoming events and handpicked 14. Check all 36 events at luma.com/handpicked

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  • 🔥 The amazing Dark Rooms are back! For three weekends only, a hidden cinema transforms into an immersive art experience. Explore secret tunnels and forgotten spaces where 10 international light and sound artists create installations. The location is revealed 48 hours before your visit | starts on Fri, 10/07 15:00 | Secret Location

  • Come and check out what my most creative neighbour Dennis is up to. A really cool concept store and a bunch of interesting people. Nothing Great Is Built alone | Fri, 03/07 15:00 | Kreuzberg

  • We are finally back with our Summer get-together with our sister publication Berlin Events Weekly. It'll be fun, so make sure to get your ticket and meet some interesting people: Summer get-together in Mitte — Handpicked Berlin × Berlin Events Weekly | Fri, 17/07 18:30 | MITTE BÜRO

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☕️ Coffee Talk

Niusha Shahmoradi is the CEO of Founders League. You should definitely reach out if you want to get connected with someone in Berlin (or even Germany?). Since our chat, I already met a great founder and even got a tip for a barber (not that I need one!). Here is what he prepared for you:

  • Peter Schlemihl - Took me way too long to pick one. I ended up with Peter Schlemihl in Bergmannkiez. Super solid spätzle, cosy interior and a small menu. Going there four times a year: twice with family/friends visiting, twice with two former colleagues. Our WhatsApp group includes a spätzle-pun.

  • Pierre Bourdieu's "Forms of Capital" - Current rabbit hole. He views status as the sum of different forms of capital:
    Economic: money, assets,
    Cultural: knowledge, taste, qualifications and
    Social: networks and resources accessible through them.
    Ever since I read about his concepts, I see them everywhere. Dating, friendships, fundraising — it can all be viewed through Bourdieu's lens.

  • Chess.com — I am currently on a 1250-day run on chess.com. At some point, I realised I am not going to reduce screen time significantly so I found a healthier alternative to doomscrolling. Ping me your chess.com username for a match.

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🌍 From the Community

  • 🏓 Weekend project, now in beta: KiezPong maps Berlin's public ping-pong tables and pings a neighbour when you want a game. Builders — come play and tell me what to fix. Check it out here.

  • In last week’s poll I asked you if you were more productive in the office or at home (if the commute didn’t exist). Nothing very conclusive:

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🧭 Career compass

  1. Signals from Monday: Tesla (Grünheide) plans to hire 1,000 new workers at the Gigafactory [careers]; Waymo registered a company in Munich, preparing its Germany launch [careers]; N26 (Berlin) reached first-ever profitability in 2025 with €1.6M in profit [careers]; Langdock (Berlin, AI) named Judith Dada as Co-CEO [careers]; KNDS (Munich, defence) got a 40% federal government stake [careers]; Hochtief (Essen, construction) officially listed on the DAX [careers].

  2. Someone asked why Burgermeister has so many Indian employees, and the thread has several good explanations. A commenter also claims that pay is better than at most other burger joints in Berlin. Which reminded me how much I love a good burger. I can recommend Martha’s.

  3. The future is all about small and specialised models (especially since the US government is now arbitrarily blocking access to the state-of-the-art models). “Many tokens consumed in the future may not come from frontier models but from smaller open models that are up to the tasks.”

  4. For everyone in HR and hiring managers who struggle to hire great people: probably it's because you aren’t paying enough or because your team is dysfunctional. The essay on “Hiring and the market for lemons” by Dan Luu is written for developers, but it’s valid across the board. A classic. Do read.

  5. Continuing on last week’s topic of work from home, here is an interesting paper (emphasis mine): “Results suggest that remote work substantially increases isolation and worsens mental health, particularly for those living alone. Although a large body of research finds that workers want to work remotely, our findings suggest that workers may not realize the costs of remote work for their well-being, which may take time to accumulate.”

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