jjani

> Yet we're what? 5 years into "AI will replace programmers in 6 months"?

Realistically, we're 2.5 years into it at most.

This is so well-known by now that replacing those is tablestakes :) The ".. isn't just A - it's B" isn't yet to the greater public.

This pattern is so prevalent that in any decent LLM business content generation product you're forced to hardcode avoidance/removal of that phrase, otherwise it's bound to show up in every article.

The security argument is a valid one, as long as the prompts aren't passing through Cline's servers but instead directly sent to the LLM providers. If they go through an intermediary step, it's a pretty pointless difference. Yet it's very hard to make money off of a coding assistant where the prompts don't pass through their servers in one way or form. Cline is for-profit and currently their only monetization is to get users to use their credits system, meaning prompts go through them. In other words, if Cline is to succeed and monetize you, the security advantage sounds questionable.

This is a hilariously obvious LLM sentence by the way:

> Your codebase isn't just text – it's your competitive advantage

When creating articles aimed at LLM power users (which this one is), just have a human write it. We can see through the slop. Come on, you're VC backed, if you were bootstrapping I wouldn't even be calling this out.

The other arguments I used to agree with - compression and RAG means loss of quality, increasing context windows and decreasing prices means you should just send a lot of context.

Then I tried Augment and their indexing/RAG just works, period, so now I'm not convinced anymore.

> This belief that they can write JavaScript that outperforms decades of bare-metal executed optimisations in mainstream database engines is just astonishing.

In my first job fresh out of uni, I worked with a "senior" backend developer who believed this. He advocated for crusty, bug-ridden ORMs like Sequelize and Prisma (still very early stage back then, so lots more issues than now though I'd still steer well clear of it). Claiming they did "query optimizations". I knew it made zero sense, but also that I wasn't going to be able to convince him.

When reading the title, in your head bold "silently" rather than "dropped support".

> openAI models have an issue where they are pretty good at everything but not incredible at anything. They're too well rounded.

This suggests OpenAI models do have tasks they're better at than the "less rounded" competition, who have taks they're weaker in. Could you name a single sucg task (except for image generation, which is an entirely different usecase), that OpenAI models are better at than Gemini 2.5 and Claude 3.7 without costing at least 5x as much?

Here we go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43981981

I think in this case Wise is A. Not quite big enough and B. Has too much overlap with HN users (especially for business/paid users, where the money may be at) to just ignore this. The CEO at the very least has the necessary access to start the process of this company getting their money back.

Don't worry too much, luckily you've reached #1 on HN so they'll fix it for you within a day.

The stunning architecture is what makes it unique. Truly beautiful and one-of-a-kind, it's a work of art. Most of the functional stuff mentioned (underground parking, cradle to grave amenities, online community, (music) academy inside the complex) is bog standard living in much of Korea, and I imagine modern China as well.

> I tried to add a .wiki link to a Reddit profile recently and their filters also say that domain is invalid.

That's absurd, there's a .wiki that's almost definitely in the top 20 most visited websites in Korea, if not higher.

You're being far too harsh. Yes, this post is about academia but they said "technological leader", strongly suggesting they're talking about it more broadly - "technology" usually implies business.

And China is absolutely the technology leader.

Spending too much time on HN and other spaces (including offline) where people talk about what they're doing. Making LLM-based things has also been my job since pretty much the original release of GPT3.5 which kicked off the whole industry, so I have an excuse.

The big giveaway is that everyone who has tried it agrees that it's clearly the best agentic coding tool out there. The very few who change back to whatever they were using before (whether IDE fork, extension or terminal agent), do so because of the costs.

Relevant post on the front page right now: A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code [0]. The comment section supports the above as well.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43931409

You would like to, or you're actually doing that right now?

> The biggest players in AI code today are full IDEs, not just extensions,

Claude Code (neither IDE nor extension) is rapidly gaining ground, it's biggest current limitation being cost, which is likely to get resolved sooner rather than later (Gemini Code anyone?). You're right about the right now, but with the pace at which things are moving, the trends are honestly more relevant than the status quo.

Fair enough, though VC hub would've been a more apt phrasing then. I just mentioned it because in terms of actual tech development going on, the gap between 1. SV / China and 2. anywhere else (including London) is so absurdly vast it's almost meaningless to be 2nd in VC investment, you might as well be 10th.

Tech hub != VC money.

> London is the biggest tech hub outside of the US

You must be excluding China there, as it alone has multiple tech hubs that make London look meaningless.

Meh - this isn't a Europe thing. That same sentiment of their friends and family would be even much stronger in e.g. Korea or India.

I actually use this, I'm really into authentic Chinese food and some of the places aren't on the mainstream delivery apps but are on HungryPanda. The app is pretty bad but usable.

Every frontier model now is a distill of a larger unpublished model. This could be a slightly smaller distill, with potentially the extra tuning you're mentioning.

The designs itself are still done by humans, I presume?

That's clearly not a PR angle they could possibly take when it's replacing the overall SotA model. This is a business decision, potentially inference cost related.

Sounds like they were losing so much money on 2.5-Pro they came up with a forced update that made it cheaper to run. They can't come out with "we've made it worse across the board", nor do they want to be the first to actually raise prices, so instead they made a bit of a distill that's slightly better at coding so they can still spin it positively.

In 2006 IE's market share was higher than current OpenAI's market share.

Ask 10 people on the street in 2009 about IE and Chrome and ask which one they knew.

The names don't even matter when everything is baked in.

Google, MS, Apple and Meta are all quite capable of generating such a history for new users, if they'd like to.

The comparison of Chrome and IE is much more apt, IMO, because the deciding factor as other mentioned for social media is network effects, or next-gen dopamine algorithms (TikTok). And that's unique to them.

For example, I'd never suggest that e.g. MS could take on TikTok, despite all the levers they can pull, and being worth magnitudes more. No chance.

Very curious - what is it besides image generation?

Come on, at least provide your argument, we're curious! I've brought the bear case, so what's your bull case? :)