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Ignoring how a thing was created, is it useful to me (or anyone)?

The fascination with LLM coding seems rooted in the new ability to create something with very little effort. Unfortunately, some people do not see the trade comes at the moment you have to evaluate the output for fitness or quality.

It turns out that you often need to understand the thing pretty well in order to be qualified to determine the quality of the output. That tends to dilute time gains, unless you leave off the evaluation step.

I almost completely disagree.

Unprofessional? Maybe a little, but honest, and while the truth isn't flattering to Jarred, I'd say generally kind.

Embarrassing? Not from my seat. Andrew is just revealing the relationship dynamics between a principled programming language developers and pragmatic business users of that language.

I had already inferred a bunch that this post confirms based on the agentic port from forked-Zig to Rust. It's very nice to have suspicions confirmed.

Does anyone here have any knowledge of how something like this gets resolved?

The documentation page makes this look like a fake door test.

Good point, but they don't market it for general consumption, which seems to be the suggestion.

I honestly don't think windows is worth any price. Unix is the platform of builders, and nobody needs a middleman charging them to breathe air (run an os).

Even at $45 I am still not interested. For actually building software, Linux is king. The OS is a commodity, and I largely do not have to think about it.

For desktop use, sure, $45 could fly, but, the main draw of windows is compatibility with existing software, and honestly that is no longer worth it.

No

The original Team Fortress on quake.net is where I grew to appreciate the beauty.

Very smart. You can't lose all your customers for vibe-coding a migration to Rust if you are already written in Rust ;)

"The Standard of Excellence for Image and Picture Quality"

Yeah you are, you go girl.

I'd word your first point a bit more strongly:

The Steam Machine is the best of both worlds, yes, it is a plain PC and Valve is recognizing that. However, they are also selling a fully supported Linux gaming rig that plays many Windows games out of the box.

That might not excite everyone, but it does me.

Wow, there really is an XKCD for everything.

It seems it may be 'animal nature'. We maximize our benefit until the environment limits us, and humans have become 'too good' at it, increasing stakes to a global scale.

This is an important distinction: what is good for ecology is not necessarily good for economy.

If we need unbounded growth to jeep our economic system to function, its the economic system that is wrong, not nature.

Most software engineers in my experience have quite a lot of control, and a large component of growing in your career is learning to perceive the control that you have.

I've found that most of that autonomy comes with trust, and that trust gets unlocked via good relationships, and good relationships get unlocked by a history of good communication.

You are 100% correct that every person has agency, the trick is to get yourself into a social dynamic where it is acceptable to assert it.

I'm sorry you have had to experience that.

As much as I'd like to judge, I had a little bit of that 'elder avoidance' in my 20s, and I look back and cringe at how stupid I was.

I'm old enough now to know that 'my people' can't be determined by things I can judge easily by looks or short interactions. I'm going to hope they get it at some point.

Same here.

I never taught my children anything but the '(Fast) Ian knot', so they know no other way. They are older now, but when they were younger, they were often the friends of 'first resort' when it came to getting their shoelaces tied when they came undone.

They've also taught many other children 'their way' of tying their shoes.

I should probably donate. It's a small thing, but definitely something that has made our lives (and those around us) better.

What do you mean by circle of avoidance?

require some runtime to interact with the world

This was why I was excited by Bun until recent events. A typescript runtime with a rich standard library, and fast. It looked like it would be a great sweet spot for many use cases.

Came to bikeshed but the video was more nuanced and fair than this title.

Same here. It isn't hard to justify buying something like the Framework 12 in principle.

I have bought multiple Framework computers and I continue to be a fan, not because it is the best in any single category. It is because I want computers to be bought and sold in the vision that the Framework folks seem to have.

When I purchase a Framework I'm not purchasing a single computer. I'm buying a laptop-of-Theseus that I can continue to use throughout the future. When parts get broken, or a fancy new part is better, I buy the parts and upgrade it rather than buy a whole new device.

I also run an operating system that is publicly developed and available.

You won't see these things on a spec sheet or influencer demo.

This is what happens to companies who dominate completely; they stop playing the game that they were winning and start playing a different game.

While the article speaks about an individual getting fired from a giant corporate behemoth, all I could think is, most people in the company probably have zero idea who that is.

Big becomes a problem in itself, and you start having to solve the problems of bigness instead of the problems you were solving that made you big.

If you see constant economic growth as a requirement of a functioning society (also a bit silly), a shrinking population is concerning because it suggests that demand will shrink with the size of the population.

Shrinking demand can lead to deflation, and deflation is bad.

I'm not saying all of this is well-reasoned, but I do think it is the level of thinking involved.

There are also the practical realities (e.g. health care) that could become unbalanced if age profiles look like an inverted pyramid (https://www.populationpyramid.net/world/2026/), but I doubt that most people are thinking that deeply about it.

Here's the thing:

I was first interested in Bun because it was written in Zig. I was interested in Zig because I respected Andrew Kelley's decision-making, and his taste matched my own.

I got really excited about Bun for many reasons after that, but they essentially came down to a similar root: the decisions were ones that I respected and would probably have made myself if I had thought of them.

I was a little concerned when Bun was acquired by Anthropic, but forced myself to remain cautiously optimistic.

This behavior, though, is exactly the sort of decision-making that I don't respect. I've got nothing against Rust, but if this is how Anthropic is managing Bun, I can no longer bet on it being a reliable part of my toolkit. It isn't just the code, it's the thought behind it that I have to trust.

I was so excited by Bun for many of the use-cases I have, but this just turns me off completely. This looks like an Anthropic internal-only tool, based on the behavior.

Comments like yours are why I come to HN discussions. Thanks for sharing.

It's not like most people even know what a Steam Deck is.

Steam basically is PC gaming at this point, which is still a massive market that is almost as big as the entirety of console gaming.

I know there are those out there, but I would be slightly surprised if a PC gamer didn't know what a Steam Deck was in 2026.

As someone who has pretty much every console system and most handhelds, I didn't spring for a Switch 2, and it is for the exact reason the thread parent mentions. I do like Nintendo games, as they are consistently high quality, but they are not usually graphics reliant for fun, and the Switch is good enough still, and I don't love paying $90 USD for a single game when I can buy $5-20 games on Steam and play them across multiple devices.

The real reason TUIs are back is not one reason, but a host of reasons.

The biggest current reason is fashion. Tools like Claude Code did it, and while they actually had good reasons to run in the terminal, the tools' popularity and wildly different look, especially to non-terminal-native users became a signal of some positive sort.

I don't believe that any of the rationale posed in the article is a popular reason developers are using.

Came to say similar. We should see the success of Wine/Proton as success hard won despite attempts to lock software in to Microsoft's business, not some triumph of design or something beneficial MSFT did.

I would love it if newer revisions of USB specified standard colors for indicating negotiated mode and cable support.

The main issue I have is the lack of visibility.

Counter-counterpoint, why are people wagering on an airport thermometer measurement?

Honestly, there is zero chance you will implement anything close to sqlite.

What is more likely, if you are making good decisions, is that you'll reach a point where the simple approach will fail to meet your needs. If you use the same attitude again and choose the simplest solution based on your _need_, you'll have concrete knowledge and constraints that you can redesign for.