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Thanks, good reply. I can see the argument for sure.

I guess I like boring software too much to reach for a dependency but I do see how the tooling matters here.

Great reply. Thank you for taking the time

I've never understood feature flags. How are they fundamentally different to a Boolean in a database?

They note that Mythos "found a way to inject code into a config file that would run with elevated privileges, and designed the exploit to delete itself after running".

This is more impressive than what the benchmark was supposed to be measuring. The Kobiachi Maru.

Sometimes outcomes and achievements and work product are useful beyond just... stack ranking yourself against your peers. Seems so odd to me that this is your mentality unless you're earlier in your career.

Great write up. Thank you. Really great!

I was reminded of the factorio blog. That game's such a huge optimization challenge even by today's standards and I believe works with the design.

One interesting thing I remember is if you have a long conveyor belt of 10,000 copper coils, you can basically simplify it to just be only the entry and exit tile are actually active. All the others don't actually have to move because nothing changes... As long as the belts are fully or uniformly saturated. So you avoid mechanics which would stop that.

Great write up. It feels like craft in the age of slop.

Not sold about the fundamental idea of OpenUI though. XML is a great fit for DSLs and UI snippets.

Good write up. I was hoping to see V8 isolates (Cloudflare workers) as part of the comparison at I've always found that interesting.

Curious why Dynamic Workers instead of Workers for Platforms?

Seems there's a lot of conceptual overlap between your WFP, Dynamic Workers, and Sandbox products.

(I guess there's an expectation of at least some permanence with WFP?)

Reading these comments aren't we missing the obvious?

Claude Code is a lock in, where Anthropic takes all the value.

If the frontend and API are decoupled, they are one benchmark away from losing half their users.

Some other motivations: they want to capture the value. Even if it's unprofitable they can expect it to become vastly profitable as inference cost drops, efficiency improves, competitors die out etc. Or worst case build the dominant brand then reduce the quotas.

Then there's brand - when people talk about OpenCode they will occasionally specify "OpenCode (with Claude)" but frequently won't.

Then platform - at any point they can push any other service.

Look at the Apple comparison. Yes, the hardware and software are tuned and tested together. The analogy here is training the specific harness,caching the system prompt, switching models, etc.

But Apple also gets to charge Google $billions for being the default search engine. They get to sell apps. They get to sell cloud storage, and even somehow a TV. That's all super profitable.

At some point Claude Code will become an ecosystem with preferred cloud and database vendors, observability, code review agents, etc.

So weird to see "Series G", especially with a 5 year old company.

This sounds like a uniquely good way to accidentally spend infinity money on AWS

The harness here was Claude Code?

Curious what the market share is for vscode Vs its derivatives

Cool writeup - but not sure why it delivers on "the scariest boot loader code" title

You're suggesting Waymo isn't deep software? Or Tensorflow? Or Android? The Go programming language? Or MapReduce, AlphaGo, Kubernetes, the transformer, Chrome/Chromium or Gvisor?

You must have an amazing CV to think these are shallow projects.

I think this acquisition in reality has more to do with developer goodwill? And a little to do with the shell game of making these AI companies hard to value because they collect assets like this.

Since when is a CLI tool like this a sufficiently demanding technical project that it needs to buy the runtime just to get sufficient support?

This just isn't the hard part of the product.

Like if I was building a Claude Code competitor and I acquired bun, I wouldn't feel like I had an advantage because I could get more support with like fs.read?

This website is so so good! How did you make it technically?

I agree! It's great. Until you hit the limit, then there's literally no path to continue.

I would happily pay 20 or whatever for 4x limits. I'm very curious what they end up offering. My major reservation is side project vibes. I think it's hard to believe on this long term unless Google themselves adopt it.

I've spent time with this today and I really like it.

The problem is the rate limiting is both aggressive and has no option to pay to bypass.

Also call it "antigrav". Less of a mouthful

The problem is, any video demo of a tool like this is just an entirely unrelated video.

Good luck. I've dabbled with this myself and ultimately decided that DaVinci Resolve would end up doing this natively. But then again they haven't yet so who knows!

Good luck with it, sincerely.

Actually another piece of feedback, the "waves" release notes/videos were pretty cool. Might want to consider bringing them back.

Right but you're an IDE and I want to view code (and especially the links) in the IDE.

Hopefully we can get codemaps in the main IDE panel sooner rather than later. Feels like the very impressive thing (codemaps) is being held back by a trivial thing (reading them in a 200px panel) to the point it's impractical to use themm

Less a question and more a strong suggestion: codemaps should be viewable in the main pain. The sidebar is FAR too small. Either default or a button or something to open it like an editor tab.

I really think more people should give Windsurf a go. It's really good. I'm a senior engineer and do a mix of agentic and regular coding and I really think people are looking past Windsurf.

As the conversation shifted towards Cursor vs Claude code vs Codex people seem to have stopped mentioning it which is a shame.

Source: user for 12 months - not a shill.

Codemaps was a very pleasant surprise when it showed up.

Actually I do have a question! How come things as substantial as this were just released and not part of a "wave" ? I quite liked the waves way of doing things! Great work either way.

No question just wanted to say good job and thanks as a user. Same with deepwiki and codemaps.

This is really cool. Thank you for this. I'm a Windsurf user since launch and was VERY pleasantly surprised to see this pop up.

I also enjoyed the tech write-up. It's good to see REAL substantial engineering like this which is both highly impressive and highly productized.