Hendrikto

Fast, correct, maintainable. Pick two.

I would not build my philosophy on the marketing talk of a well-known impulsive liar. Sam, by his own admission, does not even know that much about LLMs, but he is so good at sales that somehow people take what he says for gospel anyway.

> The pull request alone adds over 197 thousand lines of code across 1,816 files.

And that across 2819 commits.

Wow, that’s insane.

> Basically, my iPad would die in a couple days if left unplugged.

I still have a first gen (!) iPad that still lasts for weeks on a single charge when locked. It is useless now, because there is no software support, but not because of the battery.

This is the attitude that gives us daily data breaches.

This is just a very low-effort regurgitation of this: https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore

With agentic vibe-codig, we can accelerate that process 100x and turn any codebase into unmaintainable slop within merely a week! See Bun, for example.

> I've noticed this myself with every apartment I've ever lived in. Things start off fine, but then mold starts growing in the bathroom, and a recurring leak springs up in the living room, and then roaches start appearing in the kitchen. Once the lease is up for renewal, I'm dying to leave. I then move into a sparkly, new apartment where I repeat the process all over again.

Sounds like it takes her about 2 years to trash any apartment she moves into.

Git has had native partial checkout for ages.

Ultimately, it is the CEO who has to take responsibility. They are the chief executive officer, after all. And they are well compensated for it.

It is crazy how much more wealth per user that can be created in the tulip space, compared to other products.

> Most people don't want to pay for better.

A lot of people want to pay for better, but that is hard. Better is more expensive, most of the time, but being more expensive is no guarantee for being better. It feels like the correlation is very weak. Most expensive products are just expensive, not good.

If there was a reliable way to identify the "better" thing, I and a lot of other people would go for that every time we can.

The amount of times people asked me for help without even reading the very obvious error message is astonishing. Many people just completely switch off their brain when anything goes wrong.

> Short, well-done

This is the neglected key point. None of the examples were short or well-done.

> experienced users will often start typing without looking based on what they trust the eventual state of the UI will be

Does that not still point to bad animation if for a different reason?

The animations seem to be a workflow hindrance rather than helpful.

So the exact opposite of what you said initially.

> The URL contains the entire schema.

Isn’t that going to be a problem due to the URL length limitations?

> It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110#section-4.1-5

Just have slightly different versions then. This has always been possible.

That are still 4 words, imo.

> I could find a book that hadn't been thoroughly translated to English and then I could give a proper analysis on how good the translation is, but since I'm a very stereotypical American I know exactly one language

So you actually cannot give a proper analysis.

> I have to say that AI translation has gotten so good

> I do not speak any language outside of English

So you are entirely unqualified to judge this, and you acknowledge yourself that your test is flawed to the point of being completely useless. Yet you make grandiose statements about the quality.

> I now eschew the em in favour of en

They have different meaning and are not interchangeable.

> I mean, how would you even write an em dash?

With a keyboard shortcut. Just because you are incompetent, that does not mean everybody is.

> Imagine […] what you could do, ask, plan, or learn, if you had the full undivided attention GPT or Claude. not a commercial, guard railed, fine tunes, beat into submission version that is splintered into hundreds of millions of iterations to chat with every one.

That is not how it works. It is not “splitered”, there is no divided attention.

> One of the "smells" that gives away a quacky ranter is they speak in impassioned, "Why doesn't everyone understand this?" tones, but in fact their argument just doesn't flow.

Exactly what the AI evangelists are doing.

> There's even a copilot button on new keyboards!

But not because anybody asked for that. It is part of the force feeding so execs can make this exact argument, and pretend that demand is there.

> API calls just aren't on the menu

Even if they were an option, your 300ms latency requirement would exclude them anyway.

> but it's a problem easily solved by just letting in more immigrants

This has been tried extensively e.g. in Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, …. It did not work out great.

Not even the most extreme FOSS zealots (RMS, FSF, …) ever claimed that taking public contributions was ever a part of that.

Accepting contribution has never been a requirement for open source.