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I read it as an experiment and hypothesis. The author is on a quest to prove their hypotheses. I appreciate the insight into the work in progress and the potential outcomes. It's more beneficial for me than waiting several months to see it fully proven.

The decision to open source is surprising at first glance. But it makes a lot of sense. With the greatly enhanced coding productivity, the ROI for tweaking open source tools is quite high. This puts closed source tools at a significant disadvantage in terms of customization. They are a little late to the AI coding assistant market, this move enables them to capture market share rapidly and slow down the competitors in building up data moat.

This is awesome and has huge potential to improve developer productivity! The only thing that it gives me pause is that it requires a very broad Github authorization. Do you really need to "be able to read and write all public and private repository data"?

Maybe there is some truth here but they haven’t done a good job if that is the goal. The simplified Chinese is not that different from traditional Chinese. We can still read traditional text easily. The biggest difference is the Simplified Chinese is much easier to write (by hand).

You are right logically. However given the amount of confusion in this thread surely you can see a lot of people _feel_ offended. It’s worth thinking about how to avoid such ambiguity in the future.

I think you are suffering from perfectionism. You are in a healthy process of continuous improvement, keep discovering things that you could have done better. But there could be thousands of engineers out there that could have benefited from being more like the version of you yesterday.

The ones who wouldn't benefit from it would just move on to read material more suitable for their level. You don't need to worry about protecting them from making the same mistakes as you do.