What Pieter Levels thinks about benchmarks
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsI'm noticing Westerners are continously having lower standards every year and seem to not even notice the declining quality standards of everything around them
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Their wordsMany people who I tell about Starlink are still skeptical about satellite internet, they always talk about latency issues, and they think latency is like 1 second but it's more like 10ms (1/100th of a second) which is the same or better than regular fiber internet
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