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Silicon Valley's Roach Motels

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thestephen
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Reads more like a dunk than a critique. When the interspersed commentary has to lift that hard for the criticism to land, it’s worth asking whether the Dawkins quotes actually support the reading or whether the reading is just being asserted around them.
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Counterpoint: Zed wins me over because the LLM calls don't feel like magic - I maintain control over API calls unlike Cursor, which seems to have a mind of its own and depletes my API quota unexpectedly. Plus, Zed matches Sublime's performance unlike Cursor's laggy Electron VS Code foundation.
thestephen
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Emacs in its final form? Sadly, for those of us not versed in Elisp, such power remains a pipe dream.
thestephen
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Great tool! It uncovered a surprising amount of unnecessary exports in our codebase. Really streamlines things.

One interesting observation: when using it with our Next.js project, it flags all page TypeScript files as unused. This inadvertently highlights a potential drawback of file-system based routing - it can lead to less explicit code relationships.
thestephen
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I've recently received several friend requests a day from spambots. This is annoying, but I can just ignore the "friend request" tab and go on with my life.

However, as if it wasn't a nuisance enough, Facebook now gives me plain notifications of these friend requests in my normal notification feed. "Spambot is new to Facebook and just sent you a friend request."

I'd switch to only Messenger, but Facebook seems to think that I don't have Messenger, so I keep receiving invites to install Messenger from my friends as it covers half their conversation with me with that notification.