--- title: "Blog" canonical: https://wavect.io/blog/overview/page/16/ language: en description: "Browse a curated front page, then move through focused topic and cluster hubs without losing older work to chronology." image: "https://wavect.io/img/general/bak/open_graph_preview.jpg" --- FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №165 # Opinions, Not Press Releases Browse a curated front page, then move through focused topic and cluster hubs without losing older work to chronology. ## Latest articles Nine articles per page, ordered by publication date. ### [When Not to Hire Wavect](/blog/when-not-to-hire-wavect/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 8 Jun 2026 An honest list of the six cases where Wavect is the wrong call, who to use instead, and the narrow set of work we actually do best. ### [Can a Software Studio Claim Austria's Forschungsprämie?](/blog/forschungspraemie-software-development-austria/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 2 Jun 2026 Austria's Forschungsprämie pays back 14% of qualifying R&D costs in cash, even at a loss. Which dev costs count, what gets rejected by the FFG, and how it compares to Germany's Forschungszulage. ### [When Is an LLM Eval Worth Building? Cost, ROI, and Trusting the Judge](/blog/llm-evaluation-cost-roi-production/) - **Details:** AI & Agents · 1 Jun 2026 An LLM eval is worth building when stakes, volume, and prompt-change frequency exceed the cost of the harness. The model bill is a few dollars per run; the real cost is a dataset and a judge you can trust. ### [Why Cross-Chain Bridges Keep Getting Drained](/blog/cross-chain-bridge-security-decision/) - **Details:** Web3 & Privacy · 31 May 2026 Ronin, Wormhole, and Nomad lost over $1.1B between them. The root cause is the trust model, not the code. Plus whether you even need a bridge. ### [How Austrian Startup Funding Actually Stacks](/blog/austrian-startup-funding-stacking-aws-ffg/) - **Details:** Business & Regulation · 30 May 2026 aws Preseed, FFG Basisprogramm, and the 14% Forschungsprämie stack legally, but the double-funding rule nets out overlapping euros. Caps, a worked example, and the order to apply. ### [React Native vs Flutter for a DACH Founder Who Has to Hire Locally](/blog/react-native-vs-flutter-dach-hiring/) - **Details:** Delivery & QA · 29 May 2026 The variable every comparison skips is who you can actually hire in Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich, or Zurich. Why React Native usually wins the DACH hiring math. ### [LoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs Sigfox: How to Budget an IoT Sensor Pilot](/blog/lorawan-nbiot-sigfox-pilot-cost/) - **Details:** Delivery & QA · 28 May 2026 One decision drives 80% of your pilot cost, and it is not the radio. Private network you own versus carrier subscription you rent, with a worked TCO crossover. ### [Focus Is the New Bottleneck](/blog/focus-bottleneck-orchestrating-ai-agents/) - **Details:** Leadership & Teams · 26 May 2026 LLMs moved the bottleneck from typing to focus. The orchestration ceiling, seven failure modes past N agents, and how we ration agent count. ### [Smart Contract Security Checklist (30 Items)](/blog/smart-contract-security-checklist-pre-audit/) - **Details:** Web3 & Privacy · 26 May 2026 The 30-item internal checklist we run on Solidity code before sending it to an external auditor. Compiler, access control, reentrancy, gas surfaces. Inbox, without the noise ## Follow the work that matters to you Get a short email when we publish something new. 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