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Not a huge surprise

Great job on this. I can see this being extremely useful for my teams!

Hate on the Claude desktop app on macOS all you want (I personally think it’s fine), but I don’t understand how Gruber can think the ChatGPT app is that good. It’s also…fine, but certainly not special IMO, despite being a native app.

I owned a Model Y for several years, but, at least in my city, I always felt Tesla’s navigation had pretty poor route selection during busy times of the day - like dorecting me to streets that were notoriously stop and go during rush our when the highway alternative was known to be much quicker.

Perhaps “charlatan” in the literal sense isn’t true. I was speaking more colloquial, but that was lazy of me.

I will ask though, has he been honest when he’s testified before Congress? At best, I think we can say he hasn’t been very transparent many of those times. If that’s not for power and/or financial gain, what is it? [0]

- [0] https://dispatch.techoversight.org/top-report-mark-zuckerber... - which was previously discussed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060486

“we're told to not like Facebook…”

I didn’t have to be “told” to not like Facebook or Meta. The company’s actions for well over a decade and those of its executives, including the CEO, allowed to form that opinion on our own. I’d be willing to bet that experience is not unique to me.

I definitely didn't mean this as a personal attack.

Those are fair points, though I didn't say he wasn't a good business person. I could probably concede that he is, but I don't see him as the tech visionary he's often propped up to be.

I've always felt that Mark Zuckerberg got lucky with Facebook and that he has no real lasting talent as a technologist or visionary. He seems to attempt to chase the latest "it" thing and has very few original ideas that actual stick long-term. He's quite the charlatan.

I do a lot of my streaming with Apple TV, but the worst parts about the Apple TV app are in my opinion are:

- Too many promos of other shows before watching a show. This is often for shows I've already watched and am watching. Apple knows which shows I watch. It shouldn't need to give me promos for shows I've watched or am actively watching. - Poor UX for "Play Next Episode" functionality. If I just finished an episode of a show and I click to watch the next episode, I don't need to see the recap of the previous episode or the intro. - Speaking of intro, when you click to skip, it usually leaves you somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds from the end of the into, not actually after it.

Similarly, so do slide trumpets!

I haven't been involved in Angular for quite some time. As someone who uses other JavaScript frameworks (Vue, React, Svelte), what am I missing out on? I'd be curious to hear from people who would pick Angular over any of the other big frameworks.

In my experience, this is far below the cost the average dev will incur per month so this seems very reasonable to me. And, no doubt there are exceptions for heavy users so they can get some extra token usage when they need it.

https://archive.ph/nxp3m

What’s the over/under on when Cloudflare will acquire OpenCode (and keep it open source)?

I don’t have experience with the tools Cloudflare has been shipping this year so I can’t speak about the quality, but they have really been pushing out a lot new products and services, no doubt due to agentic coding.

“A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible.”

A lot of people think a lot of things, but I don’t think the majority of people think the point of using LLMs is so they can produce low-quality code. Do they produce low-quality code sometimes or often? Of course. But they also produce high-quality code very often. And sometimes they just a “fine” job.

One of the promises - and there are plenty of cases where it’s met and where it falls drastically short - is that agentic coding tools can help us code faster that is just as good or better than what a human can. One of the other big ideal payoffs is that agentic coding can allow non-programmers to create things that previously required programmers to create.

We can debate as to how successful we’ve been toward the two goals above, but I think it’s misguided to say that the majority of people think LLMs should produce lower quality code.

And we all know that being a high profile politician isn’t an avenue for bribery. /s

I’m not a CPA, but aren’t there plenty of legal ways to divest in a business where you’re not directly involved, but where you can still get a share of any profits?

Not just the west. Posted a couple weeks back here on HN: https://sundaicity.com/blogs/getting-arrested-in-japan

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078647

Perhaps you’re right. Apple's App Store review can be a rough process. Then again, a search of “Inkwell” in the App Store shows plenty of apps that are named “Inkwell”, many of then writing-related.

Seems like a variation of this game called Chess Peace: https://chesspeace.app

But can you glue it? "Jelly" should be added here: https://www.thistothat.com

There are many reasons to dislike AWS and many reasons to stay away from it (and the criticisms in the article about support resonate with me), but a few things in the article stood out to me as a bit misleading:

First, the comparison of running an Anthropic model in Bedrock vs. Claude Code is not apples-to-apples. With Bedrock pay API pricing (or whatever negotiated pricing AWS and the vendor agreed to), just like the other providers in Bedrock. You know what else is more expensive/token than a Claude Code subscription? API access for pretty much all of the other big providers. Whether we like it or not, Anthropic sees subscrition usage as different than API usage. This is not at all an AWS thing.

Second, regarding Lambda: the cold start criticism is fair but for heavy workloads usually isn't an issue and for light workloads there are some workarounds. But, if you have a discreet function that can exist outside of your app, Lambda still may be a better option here. As far as the "MASSIVE development complexity" I wish the author cited specifics. I feel like this can be true of any technology and depends on how you go about setting it up and implementing it. I've used Lambda for all sorts of use cases, including a full web application (I'd advise staying away from this one!) and there definitely is a sweet spot where it can work well.

Lastly, the whole bit about using AWS WorkMail would also suggest they never really "left" AWS. But maybe I misunderstood that part as I'm not very familiar with that service.

This is really helpful framing. Thanks!

So many MRs

Off topic: what’s the history behind the naming of Pull Request (PR) vs. Merge Request (MR)? I understand why both can be considered “correct”, but I’m curious why, say, GitHub uses PR and Gitlab uses MR.

Agreed. And, LOC has historically been one of the things we've collectively fought against management for how to evalute a "productive" developer!

Vibe Coding (and LLMs) did not create undisciplined engineering organizations or engineers. They exposed and accelerated them.

Plenty of engineers have loose (or no!) standards and practices over how they write coee. Similarly, plenty of engineering teams have weak and loose standards over how code gets pushed to production. This concept isn't new, it's just a lot easier for individuals and teams who have never really adhered to any sort of standards in their SDLC to produce a lot more code and flesh out ideas.

While I don't necessarily disagree with a lot of the skepticism and negative sentiment around this, it's worth noting this _does_ require having a Stripe account, which (last I was aware) does require that you prove you're a real person and provide banking details, at least in order to transact in production. That will certainly limit the use of a lot of spammers, scammers, etc. no? Or, maybe I'm misreading and/or being naive!

Note: I am a CloudFlare customer, but on a very low plan and probably have no use for this.

Vision has a long way to go. I remember trying an early version of AWS's Nova Act and laughed at how slow it was. And a few months later it hadn't really seemed to improve that much.

Recently, I asked Claude to log into my local grocery store chain's website and add all of the items from my shopping list to a cart. It was hilariously slow, but it did get the job done.

Unless I missed it, the article doesn't explictly mention speed in the copy, but the results do show a 17 minute (!!!) total time for the vision agent vs. 0.5s - 2.8s for the API approach.

A big part of the challenge with vision is that to manipulate the DOM, you first have to be sure the entire (current) DOM is loaded. In my experience this ends up in adding a lot of artificial waits for certain elements to exist on the page.

Rage bait? It's a fact about how some software handles downloading extra content. This issue and how ads on the web are served are two separate issues.