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randomscon MAI-Code-1-Flash

“ Build for developers, not benchmarks” is the worst marketing shot I ever heard

randomscon Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

Did it happen due to Bun?

randomscon Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday

Probably they will also fire remaining 15 people and move everything to Italy.

Their strategy is to

- fire everyone,

- give product to very small but ambitious team of people

- cut free version of the product to minimum even if does not make a sense to have a free version such as 5 video upload per month etc (they are doing this just to avoid backlash from users and community)

- use every possible dark pattern exist to get every penny from the users

randomscon Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?

I am working as a Software engineer in a European bank. There is a huge multi year program to remove COBOL as much as possible with cloud based Java Spring application.

The main reason is maintainability. There is no more cobol developers coming. Existing ones close to retirement or already retired.

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Thousands of developers organized themselves to develop an open source application to help the victims of earthquake in Turkey.