arandomhuman

He did not code his own desktop environment, it’s just hyprland.

Because github does not offer the option to (and no, running github enterprise doesn't count).

Not really a reasonable excuse considering this is completely broken for self hosted runners / paying customers (for a whole day).

Can you share a source for this? it's not that I don't believe you but I've had difficulties finding one.

Oh that is pretty gross, thanks for sharing. I was not aware of that process, that explains the cost they attempted to roll out for runners too a few months back.

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

Wow this is really poor justification for its name, the folks at cloudflare really should not be overloading the term "Operating System" pointlessly like this.

This is really approaching peak AI psychosis

You need a "traditional" operating system to even run your LLM, or do you have your own custom collection of drivers you flash your machine with? :p

Having an embedded scripting engine for large programs is nice for simplicity and keeping configuration modular - it would be messy to need to modify source constantly. It’s not an issue of it being difficult to compile something so much as it being pointlessly difficult to maintain.

jej

I think you're missing the forest for the trees with this statement and it makes your comment seem a bit reductive. It's not so much a dismissal of writing on a particular product (iPad) as much as the article is about optimal writing by hand, the best materials, and some of the reasoning as to why.

While you may be convinced writing on a screen or tablet is objectively superior to doing things the "old way" there is literature on the topic indicating otherwise you might want to consider - that being said, everyone is different in their preferences and anatomy. I for one can't stand to write on a plastic/glass surface with a stylus, the ergonomics feel wrong and my retention for journaling is significantly worse.

That’s a fair approach, thanks for elaborating. I think the main point of contention is there is an expectation this software should be more reliable, that doesn’t take away from your approach, running close sourced software like a harness (or operating system) is asking for problems.

Still, you are barely more protected than someone running this as non root at home. By your same logic you could “confine” the agent to any arbitrary directory on your filesystem and say it’s sufficient.

I disagree with this, Claude code does many malware like things and has its source obfuscation. Plan mode doesn’t even work.

probably a much smaller dependency graph (lesser usage of transitive dependencies)

friendly reminder: use vim :)

this is a very poorly framed argument, a company is comprised of people who make executive decisions such as the very topic we're making right now. they have the discretion to choose strategies at generating shareholder value that aren't so short sighted as to be on the wrong ethical side of this.

>Do they have a choice?

Yes, they absolutely have a choice. People can choose to not assist with transgressions against human rights in the year 2026 :)

The barrier to entry to generating code may be "I can think", but the barrier to entry for solving hard, distributed/multi-faceted engineering problems still remains quite high - agents can't really do this still to a decent level of efficacy reliably.

The progress models have made in the last 5 years aren't convincing me they'll bridge that gap too soon, although I can see how some people are convinced by how decent agentic harnesses make things. I know it's really easy to get very hyped with the current state of the technology, but try to have a bit of skepticism.

Aforementioned security vulnerabilities don’t strike as a potential reason to you?

Are you ESL by any chance? You’re missing the forest for the trees.

The duplication is a necessity to achieve the isolation. Having shared devels and hordes of unit files for a multi tenant system is hell - versioning issues can and will break this paradigm, no serious shop is doing this.

For running your own machine, sure. But this would become non maintainable for a sufficiently multi tenant system. Nix is the only thing that really can begin to solve this outside of container orchestration.

Wikipedia clearly has never been shown to have faults regarding accuracy.

>Looking at my own purchases from 2025, the pattern becomes obvious...

Is it me or does this list really goes against almost everything preceeding in the article?

>Claude code can deliver the first 90%, but we all know it is the last 90% that differentiates.

So most software is 180% of 100%? :p

This article comes off sort of low effort and mentions a lot grievances without actual pinpointing precise issues. I think leveraging OTEL as a general processor with a generic output is a good idea, but discounting Grafana for implementing multi tenancy solutions and alloy which is pretty fucking good is kind of pointless.

Probably something about how using LLMs for coding is such an amazing opportunity or something judging by how he implies the author would be surpassed due to information asymmetry.

so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?

I was expecting a sort of MD to HTML conversion since it's hard to think of a simpler way of doing this. I don't see how react or nextjs constitutes this being easy or simple unless you're targeting folks with domain knowledge with those ecosystems.