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Terraform has been such a delight in the age of LLMs.

Whats the case for protobuf these days? I loved it for a while. Don't dislike it particularly now (but I've rolled off).

- Performance? Fastest JSON lib in most languages are as fast if not faster

- Cross language schema generation? So many tools for this these days, they do one thing do them right (depending on your choice of 'right' for things like unions/enums/etc)

- The wire protocol? Seems to get in the way vs http2/3. Need special considerations for your proxies (be it nginx or cloudflare). Forced certs, etc are annoying too.

I feel like to most shops these days its mostly a schema manager? Protobuf is super bloated for that use case.

"OAuth 2.0 Client ID Metadata Document (CIMD)" is a big one. As an agent-provider, prereigstering client IDs for a bunch of different services and going through each ones special hoops for org validation sucks.

anyone who needs to depend on this service would want to hear

Are you implying you'd be cool with it if it was Apple sanctioned? That's pretty silly.

might be easier to strip it?

Not daily driver, but have used it as a utility a few times.

For my daily work I like letting different harnesses compete and look over each others work (while subsidized with the subscriptions) so I use OpenADE.

I (somewhat jokingly) wrote one recently too... https://github.com/pnegahdar/nano in under 200 lines. Repl, sessions, non-interactive, approvals, etc

The smarter the models get the less the harnesses matter (outside of devx).

Maybe one day I'll run it through swebech.

This sent me down memory lane, what happened to warez-bb!

Or even sell the whole org for say $50M and no one ever mentions anything.

I think the type of users it attracts (techies, crypto ppl, etc) makes it worth more too.

Okay hear me out, I use little snitch for a while. Great product. Love finding out what phones where. I make every single request (except my browser, because I'm fine with their sandbox) block until I approve.

Recently I was wondering how you really have to trust something like little snitch given its a full kernel extension effectively able to MITM your whole network stack.

So I went digging (and asked some agents to deep research), and I couldn't find much interesting about the company or its leadership at all.

All a long way to say, anyone know anything about this company?

I see a lot of whisper stuff out there. Are these the same old OpenAI whispers or have they been updated heavily?

I've been using parakeet v3 which is fantastic (and tiny). Confused why we're still seeing whisper out there, there's been a lot of development.

I added an "Ask" button my agent UI (openade.ai) specifically because of this!

Is the website Stripe or NYTimes?

Now, I'm curious. How Bedrock/Azure Claude models work?

Do these rules apply to them too?

I'm not from California but this to me seems like a great case to move to California. Why not ship your externality creating activities elsewhere? Its not like they pay more for the iPhone.

gemini flash!

+1, my experience improved quite a bit when I switched to the parakeet model, they should definitely use that as the default.

the project just does subprocess calls to claude code (the product/cli). I think services like open code were using it to make raw requests to claude api. Have any more context I can look into?

I think my read of "hiding" was more of a "trying to hide the secret sauce" which was implied in a few places.

Otherwise it seems like a minor UI decision any other app would make and it surprising there's whole articles on it.

"Hiding" is doing some heavy lifting here. You can run --json and see everything pretty much (besides the system prompt and tool descriptions)....

I love the terminal more than the next guy but at some point it feels like you're looking at production nginx logs, just a useless stream of info that is very difficult to parse.

I vibe coded my own ADE for this called OpenADE (https://github.com/bearlyai/openade) it uses the native harnesses, has nice UIs and even comes with things like letting Claude and Codex work together on plans. Still very beta but has been my daily driver for a few weeks now.

whats the ~ perf hit of something like this?

You didn't read the article it seems (or the analogy is a bad one). The differences are much more subtle than having a screwdriver or not.

On first principles it would seem that the "harness" is a myth. Surely a model like Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3 which can reason about complex functions and data flows across many files would trip up over top level function signatures it needs to call?

I see a lot of evidence to the contrary though. Anyone know what the underlying issue here is?

That looks great! Planning phase is really key.

We opensourced our claude code ui today: https://github.com/bearlyai/openade

I wanted a terminal feel (dense/sharp) + being able to comment directly on plans and outputs. It's MIT, no cloud, all local, etc.

It includes all the details for function runs and some other nice to haves, fully built on claude code.

Particularly we found planning + commenting up front reduces a lot of slop. Opus 4.6 class models are really good at executing an existing plan down to a T. So quality becomes a function of how much you invest in the plan.

I already do this.

Hows your ability to get an enterprise to mandate their 5000 employees to use it? That's what most of these types of rounds are about.

Expalin how you detect a branched/flaged sendKey (or whatever it would be called) call in the compiled WhatsApp iOS app?

It could be interleaved in any of the many analytics tools in there too.

You have to trust the client in E2E encryption. There's literally no way around that. You need to trust the client's OS (and in some cases, other processes) too.

Their status pages were all green when we dealt with this.

The case is made. That's awesome.

I normally share the sentiments of the article. But I am also curious, if the goal was:

- Implement the radio as the designer sent in the figma file (e.g. something like the radix demo one they're commenting on: https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives/docs/components/radio-gr...)

- Make sure it looks the exact same across all browsers

How doable is it with vanilla css? The example they gave was rendered to a black/white circle, most teams wouldn't ship that.