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Notes from two engineers.
What we build, what we chose and what it cost. No thought leadership: the decisions, with the reasons still attached.
The AI Act got delayed. Three parts of it did not.Brussels moved the expensive obligations to December 2027, and a lot of Swiss companies read that as nothing applying yet. The part that landed on schedule in August is the part most small companies were actually going to trip over.
The Swiss case for running a model on your own hardwareUnder the revised FADP, putting personal data into somebody else's AI tool makes you responsible for it and them your processor, which needs a contract. There is one architecture where that question does not arise, and in August it got considerably cheaper.
What we check before a real business uses itBefore a driving school could depend on our own product, we audited it the way we would audit one we inherited. What makes that useful is not the list it produces. It is the rule it follows about what counts as knowing something.