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Someone on the Claude Code team is probably wondering the same...

I guess advertising to people who pay 2000 for a phone are a more valuably audience than those buying phones for 80 bucks.

But I agree, I wish more leaders in the product development space would just stand up and say: "it's garbage, it's hostile towards our users, so we won't do it, because it compromises our values for a quick buck"

I'm actually surprised it's only that many ads? How can people even take a screenshot of the screen without a bunch of ads on it? You can't even take a look at a player, their jersey has basically ads on it, the ball, the shoes, the names of stadiums... Or do they not count the adidas/nike/reebok logos?

It's just an ad break, and now that it has been normalized, probably everyone will do it. They should just say directly we have quarters from now on because we want to show you more ads, the most annoying part is this gaslighting, pretending it is for hydration.

It's definitely AI related, though.

I totally get it, but in companies where you gotta crunch out 10x more features, review 10x from other people, this could be easily overlooked.

Exactly, you can have all the laws, but an LLM (or even a human) will just delete or refine the laws and hide the change in a 5kloc PR, that the "code author" will not review carefully, and you have 5 min to review and stamp to make sure your company is moving fast...

We are in the AI era, it doesn't change the fact that investing 1 hrs a month (or even a week) into a long-dead project in a language you no longer use is more investment than 0 hours for the rest of your life.

And yes, if your timeline as a dependency enjoyer is "is this project going to be maintained for 15 years" and you still assumed the answer is yes, it's kind of on you adding a dependency.

In the “The small print that isn't small” you describe all the disadvantages of running your models locally, but none of the advantages (just check the rest of the comment section for inspiration on that).

Time to first detected slop in this article is <1s. Claudisms per paragraph is also very high.

Is it too much to ask from people to read their own article anymore?

If anyone read this at all, they would have had the ick, and would have fired off a prompt to get rid of the most popular AI slop tells...

> keeping those two products that need to be identical in sync

I agree that most companies do that, but in my opinion that's not really all that important. Some drift between the iOS and Android apps should be expected and accepted.

Like SaaS companies who don’t feed all their stuff to Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor?

It’s the national equivalent of:

How long it takes you to ship this project? Two weeks.

And if you get help from Alice, Bob, and Charlie? Then it’s a year.

Context matters and the more context you have the worse it looks.

The stuffed animals I bought to my children were shipped to me in a closed container, better call PETA! There is no blurry line about agent mental health and whatnot.

Then, please, tell us what you think the political reasons are behind this being done??

The status page is the last one to get the update. Reddit, HN, X, company chat are all always reporting it sooner.

Some of these SV "founder mode" people do speak like sociopaths. It's probably a good base for success in the industry.

"I don't get it, why are they confessing? They are not confessing. They are bragging"

Just use any product going all in on AI hype. In 5 minutes you will see annoying bugs, server is down, non-sensical press releases, confusing UI. This is GitHub, this is Cursor, this is Anthropic, this is Google, this is all of them.

Probably they go by volume...

You make 10 commits over the weekend once a month for your fun side project, they won't police it (my assumption they can't and won't).

Your slop machines are running day and night, pushing hundreds of commits a day, day and night... You will get on their radar, take a look, then determine "yeah, this person can go somewhere else".

Wanting to leave is not the same as actually leaving. I can imagine small teams leaving because moving a 10-30 member team is easy. If you have a dev team with 500 members and the team has been on GitHub for 10 years, you will just take it because migrating is just a PITA.

I don’t think a significant percent of real Bluesky users actually care.

Having a follow button on the screenshot brings nothing and a logo is helpful when sharing (“hey it’s not twitter, I know it looks like it but it’s bluesky”) and looks subtle.

It’s just it’s a forum so people say things for discussions sake and get outraged by anything that a platform they don’t like is doing.

> When the pissed off stakeholders called a meeting to ask what was going on he didn’t show up and sent his junior engineer to answer questions and take the blame.

He doesn’t have 25 years of management experience for nothing, that’s a crafty vet move!

What, didn’t you want hundreds of companies track you while you try to get the audio work on a drum simulator?

Similar for me but I actually like podcasts in the car for this reason. Listening to podcasts sometimes triggers me thinking about issues I care about. When I realize that I’m no longer following the podcast, I just turn it off and let my thoughts go wild.

My whole life would have been different if I didn’t get a new physics teacher when I was 16?

Before him, I found math and physics unintuitive, but he explained it in a way that (to me) made the whole high school physics trivial.

I studied physics at the university where I learned programming, and switched to software engineering.

> The attendant would put air in the tires, check oil, top up fluids

So today it would be mainly just busywork, I’m doing those like twice a year, but need to put gas in my car once a week (roughly).

And even ignoring the token costs, that is just not true.

Sure, for some cases, the cost is going down. I and others on my team "one-shotted" impressive features in an hour of agent work that would have taken humans probably a month if done completely manually.

I've also seen agents going in circles for an hour on a fix that would have taken even a junior 3 minutes to get right (after it was struggling for 10 minutes, I wanted to see if it can ever get it right as an experiment).

And when taking a look at the whole organization, orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features to their users as the impressive one-shot demos would make you think.

I think it's the scientist version of "I vibecoded ten apps this weekend (at one point I'll have real users too)".

Because it's math, it's all mysterious and genuinely impressive, but in the end, if no human cares about it (apart from attention grabbing "it's so over" tweets and articles), does it really matter?

Was anything else needed to be added to the product?

I was fine with meetup.com in its original form: it had the community of people wanting to go to events, it let you share your events to these people. People showed up to events.

And the price you pay is for you to access their users. If you think it's just an RSVP page, vibe code one in 5 minutes and try and see how many people will show up to your events.

It's a modern product development failure to think that you must be adding new features all the time. "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."