FROM THE TRENCHES Issue №310

Practical decisions for AI and software

Technical guides to choose models, verify software and plan delivery.

Latest articles

New comparisons, practical guides and engineering lessons.

How much an AI MVP costs in Austria in 2026 Product & MVP

How Much Does an AI MVP Cost in Austria in 2026?

Wavect’s EUR planning bands by tier, the assumptions behind them, build/buy/fine-tune tradeoffs, ongoing costs, and Austrian funding routes that require case-specific eligibility checks.

When not to hire Wavect Business & Regulation

When Not to Hire Wavect

Six situations where Wavect may be the wrong fit, the alternatives to evaluate, and the current engagement models Wavect actually offers.

Can a software studio claim Austria's Forschungsprämie Business & Regulation

Can a Software Studio Claim Austria’s Forschungsprämie?

Austria’s Forschungsprämie credits 14% of qualifying R&D expenditure to the tax account. Current eligibility, cost-base, FFG-opinion, contract-research, grant, and German-comparison caveats.

When Is an LLM Eval Worth Building AI & Agents

When Is an LLM Eval Worth Building? Cost, ROI, and Trusting the Judge

Scale LLM evaluation to impact, exposure, change frequency, and uncertainty. A practical guide to test design, judge validation, datasets, and total evaluation cost.

Cross-chain bridge security decision Web3 & Privacy

Cross-Chain Bridge Security: Do You Need One?

Compare bridge verification, governance, liquidity, and failure containment through the documented Ronin, Wormhole, and Nomad incidents.

aws Preseed plus FFG plus Forschungspraemie funding stack Austria Business & Regulation

How Austrian Startup Funding Actually Stacks

How current aws, FFG, and Forschungsprämie instruments may interact, with live program terms, eligible-cost allocation, timing, and a conditional worked example.

React Native vs Flutter for a DACH founder hiring locally Delivery & QA

React Native vs Flutter for DACH Hiring in 2026

A current decision framework for React Native, Flutter, native, and Kotlin Multiplatform based on your real hiring funnel and product constraints.

LoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs Sigfox IoT sensor pilot cost Delivery & QA

LoRaWAN vs NB-IoT vs Sigfox: Budget an IoT Pilot

Build a current pilot budget from measured coverage, device behavior, network terms, deployment work, and an explicit total-cost model.

Focus is the new bottleneck when orchestrating AI agents Leadership & Teams

Focus Is the New Bottleneck

Agent parallelism shifts work into decomposition, context, verification, integration, and oversight. Measure capacity instead of copying a universal agent limit.

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