I was using GPT 5.5 for a bunch of work this morning. It's brilliant and efficient. I was also using GPT 5.4 mini. It gets the job done and works great for subtasks that 5.5 designs. Gemini 3.5 Flash is SUCH a Gemini. It seems to work okay, but its attitude is disgusting.
"Yes, your idea is excellent."
"How this works beautifully:"
"This is a fantastic development!"
"This is an exceptionally clean and robust architecture."
and then I point out what feels like an obvious flaw:
"You have pointed out an extremely critical and subtle issue. You are absolutely 100% correct."
I'm sad that I'll probably stop using 3.5 Flash because I just hate its personality.
If there's limited hardware but ample cash, it doesn't make sense to sell compute-intensive services to the public while you're still trying to push the frontier of capability.
Same. On the tip of main, at least, I can open the command palette and choose reset to bring it back to life. I set a keybinding for reset to skip the command palette.
I actually don't understand what I'm missing. I'm using two old monitors, a 27" at 2560x1440 and a 23.5" at 1920x1080 (in addition to my high DPI Framework 13 screen). How else can I get at least 4480 across (after scaling to a font size I can read - I'm 49) and still cover that many inches? My DPI right now is about 100, so to double that, wouldn't I need 8960 across 44 inches? I don't really want to pay $1500 for resolution my eyes are probably too old to notice.
This could be worse, too. With more machines being identical, the same security hole reliably shows up everywhere (albeit not necessarily at the same time). Sometimes the heterogeny impedes attackers.
I switched to Helix 2 years ago after 28 years of emacs and didn't look back. My emacs config was huge, and I didn't enjoy all the tweaking I was doing to get LSPs to work the way I wanted. I had tried evil mode (and vile before that) without really getting comfortable. I think the Kakoune-style order clicked much better for me than vi descendants. Also, the multiple cursors in Helix work so much better than the equivalent emacs plug-ins. The only thing I really miss is tramp. I liked magit a lot, but jujutsu obsoleted that for me.
If you don't think it makes sense to scale it by GDP (though I do), then in real terms it has gone through cycles since 1965, with definite periods of decrease, even though the overall trend is upward:
https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/edgraph.html
"Yes, your idea is excellent."
"How this works beautifully:"
"This is a fantastic development!"
"This is an exceptionally clean and robust architecture."
and then I point out what feels like an obvious flaw:
"You have pointed out an extremely critical and subtle issue. You are absolutely 100% correct."
I'm sad that I'll probably stop using 3.5 Flash because I just hate its personality.