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If the answers in this thread reflects the state of the art what "the advent of AI" as of 2026/6 has brought, I have to say that I am not amused. If we have this all-potential tool that can create anything, the potential is clearly capped by either people's ambition/imagination or the capabilities of coding agents... And please do not understand me wrong, I am just stating that I feel/think that the real-world examples of achievements should be something "next-level" stuff...

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Anthropic user account system seems dangerous to begin with. Login only with email, which cannot be changed ("make new account if your email changes"). I have have monthly Pro plan which I cancelled immediately to avoid situation where banning leaves billing. Now they have changed so that I can't resubscribe monthly plan anymore (I have ~10 days left of previous subscription), only yearly billing is option for resubscription at this moment (and yearly commitment is a long time with AI models). When the subscription ends, we'll see what it is shows then... You can't trust these kind of businesses...

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Trying to get my product (desktop application) to the state of minimal sellable version (according to my quality level expectations). I tend to be perfectionist, thinking it is never even good enough. Hopefully I can show it to you/world in the summer, and hear what people think of it. But for now (or the past 5 years), I have nothing to show and tell.

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I actually downloaded and tried Zed first time about a week ago, because I needed a text editor that looks and behaves almost identically with Windows/macOS/Linux, so there is minimal switching hassle between developing for all these three OSs. And vims/emacs are no-choice for me, because if I don't use them for a while, I have to google how to exit/save etc. Not a choice for CEO.

I have now one week experience, and I like it very much. Some settings take a bit time to get right for my taste, and themes doesn't look polished, but otherwise it is excellent choice (even when thinking Sublime, which I considered the best of all). AI-things can be disabled for now, so let's hope it stays that way.

I also tried VSCode, and omg, I can't understand who want to use that... It is almost Visual Studio grade bad. At least by default settings. It couldn't even open 900 kb text file without freezing (Zed/Sublime had no problem, like 2026 computers/software shouldn't have with 1 mb file).

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3 ay öncediscuss

The job of hyperscalers is to scale and accelerate bills.

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3 ay öncediscuss

The answer is of course obvious, and applies to any business domain over time and hypes: how to sell, that is, being a real old-fashioned salesman, who has ability to make deals, who can bring money in.

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3 ay öncediscuss

I feel you. Booting selling is the most mysterious thing I know.

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3 ay öncediscuss

Unicode standard doesn't define any visual shapes for code points (except conceptual examples for some emoji-like symbols), so this is more some specific font's (that is not even mentioned/cannot be changed) glyph similarity visualization than anything to do with Unicode code point "visual exploration".

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3 ay öncediscuss

Linux is the only hope at this point for the future of computing.

Windows and macOS are just too risky to do any business with. Waste of all resources.

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4 ay öncediscuss

What you described is true, I also experienced this same:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258982

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4 ay öncediscuss

Electron is business-friendly choice, because users do not refuse using it. It is users' fault. Users support and accept it by using it. Nagging doesn't change anything. As with every bad business, it is users who buy/use and therefore supports continuing its existence.

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4 ay öncediscuss

"Chaos isn't a pit, chaos is a ladder."

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5 ay öncediscuss

It will expand like JavaScript from its origins. It is now in its early period, like JS was before its standardization. It will become some sort of natural language source file format with fuzzy typing (vs HTML≈XML/JSON for structured document file format, JS for formal executable language source file).

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5 ay öncediscuss

Amazing, highly recommended. I have watched all seasons ~4 times. It has just some magical feeling, because tech is in the end about people and their interactions/dynamics.

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5 ay öncediscuss

And it shows. Desktop app gets laggier and buggier on every update.

And recently like 1 of every 10 consecutive songs just doesn't play. When clicking on the song, it feels like the app tries to redirect original song link (the "app" is a website) to some other link and it doesn't find it. As an example, Madonna - Frozen (from 1998 Ray of Light album) just doesn't play, just tried.

I have been paying Spotify customer since 2008 or something, I have playlists that are so old that it doesn't show dates added. Last week I cancelled my subscription, and switched to YouTube Premium (no ads + YT Music). YT music is even more horrible especially with playlists. Maybe I just buy somewhere (Amazon MP3?) my the 10 most listened albums and call it my music listening for the future.

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5 ay öncediscuss

Print to PDF + throw it to /TOREAD, which you will never open, but at least the content is there. Maybe add some relevant keywords in the filename (keep the original name also), so you can quickly grep/find what you need.

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5 ay öncediscuss

The point is to go beyond LLM training set. When the knowledge of LLMs, books, expert conversations etc. ends and cannot answer to your questions, you begin to feel where that boundary begins. From that line on, you are alone, and you can invent/discover something novel. Nothing is promised though, and it is the hardest thing to do, but at least the struggle gives a feeling of purpose.

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6 ay öncediscuss

To do quality QA/code review, one of course needs to understand the design decisions/motivations/intentions (why those exact code lines were added, and why they are correct), meaning it is the same job as one would originally code those lines and building the understanding==quality on the way.

For the terminology, I consider "vibe-coding" as Claude etc. coding agents that sculpts entire blocks of code based on prompts. My use-tactic for LLM/AI-coding is to just get the signature/example of some functions that I need (because documents usually suck), and then coding it myself. That way the control/understanding is more (and very egoistically) in my hands/head, than in LLMs. I don't know what kind of projects you do, but many times the magic of LLMs ends, and the discussion just starts to go same incorrect circle when reflected on reality. At that point I need to return to use classic human intelligence.

And for COBOL + AI, in my experience mentioning "COBOL" means that there is usually DB + UI/APP/API/BATCHJOB for interacting with it. And the DB schema + semantics is propably the most critical to understand here, because it totally defines the operations/bizlogic/interpretations for it. So any "AI" would also need to understand your DB (semantically) fully to not make any mistakes.

But in any case, someone needs to be responsible for the committed code, because only personified human blame and guilt can eventually avert/minimize sloppiness.

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6 ay öncediscuss

I really wouldn't want any vibe-coded COBOL in my bank db/app logic...

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6 ay öncediscuss

I feel this is a major turning point for how entities can/will behave from now on towards Trump's wants/decisions. Now it is publicly proved, that you cannot trust deals made with Trump, because they can be just invalidated at a moment's notice. Only bad deals to be made, so why would any reasoned entity agree to those. World will not take threats seriously any more, and will defend themselves.

Maybe missions in Venezuela, Iran etc. was accomplished so easily, that it blurred the judgment of what could be done. But those countries are different than a conglomerate of 450 M people / 27 countries. And now military and economic thinking/domains/threats were also mixed. "Weak EU leaders" can and are now forced to unite as one strong resistance.

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