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To be fair, downloading and running random executables from the internet is a genuinely terrible security model when the OS (like Windows, Linux, or (to a lesser extent) MacOS) does nothing to prevent it from doing anything you can do.

> "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up.

How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well with, like TS or Python, makes a lot of sense but the chosen language still needs to be readable by humans.

> Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals? No. You debug at your abstraction layer. If that layer is natural language, debugging becomes: "Hey Claude, the login is failing for users with + in their email."

I debug at my abstraction layer because I can trust that my compiler actually works, LLMs are fundamentally different and need to produce human readable code.

> making mandatory perpetual payments to be allowed to use tightly-controlled devices that they must manage their entire lives through

This is the mainframe experience for companies that run on z/OS, the licensing makes Azure look simple by comparison

https://ibmlicensingexperts.com/ibm-mainframe-licensing-z-sy...

The old context menu can get slow as hell too, there have been third party tools to manage it for ages, like https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html

This is the fault of whoever is administrating your Windows machines, Teams and Outlook are perfectly capable of opening links in your configured default browser.

How would rebuilding Windows on top of Linux help anything? Nobody is complaining about the NT kernel and none of the Linux DEs are clearly superior to the Windows userland, they all have at least as many bugs and warts.

See season 7, episode 4 (“Sex Ed”) of The Office for a non-cartoon media reference :)

An order of magnitude, really? An experienced user with an LLM is going to accomplish in 2026 what would have otherwise taken until 2036?

Assuming 40 hours a week of work time, you’re claiming a ~25x speed up, which is laughably absurd to me.

It will take you 2.5 months to accomplish what would have taken you five years, that is the kind of productivity increase you’re describing.

It doesn’t pass the smell test. I’m not sure that going from assembly to python would even have such a ludicrous productivity enhancement.

Don’t a lot of Android devices come with Gemini Nano on the device?

Probably not as many out there as there are Apple devices because it is only the high end ones at the moment. I don’t think they are that far behind in numbers though.

I feel like this is 5 or so years out of date. The fact that they actually have an Apple Music app for Android is a pretty big push for them. Services is like 25% of their revenue these days, larger than anything except the iPhone.

Track changes and collaborative editing are both pretty important features IMO

Had a lot of fun with this, great job on the concept and presentation!

I think it might still be a toggleable option but the “new calendar” experience in teams is exactly the same as the outlook web calendar.

In Windows-land everything is so inconsistent that it doesn’t really stand out like it does on MacOS.

97% of Windows users wouldn’t notice if it followed OS conventions and the remaining 3% would complain that it was following the current conventions instead of copying Word 2003 :)

It’s actually much more than that, $20 billion per year

I think you are about a decade off on your first git commit, unless you meant they went cvs -> svn or something and then ended up on git later.

This is about keyboard navigation rather than TUI vs GUI, there is no reason you have to render your app with plain text to support efficient keyboard nav.

I can’t get it to use my password manager on that screen either, and navigating to another app closes the modal so you have to copy your password and then start over.

Last I checked, shorts are disabled if you disable recommendations.

It is quite bleak to me. Thinking has always been an important part of what makes us human, much more so than physical labor.

Craftsmanship and tool usage are physical activities that also define us as a species and you will find no shortage of people lamenting our loss of those skills, too. Both those and thinking are categorically different than water carrying, ditch digging, and other basic heavy labor.

> This is the part where I simply don't understand the objections people have to coding agents. It seems so self-evidently valuable --- even if you do nothing else with an agent, even if you literally throw all the code away.

It sounds like the blank page problem is a big issue for you, so tools that remove it are a big productivity boost.

Not everyone has the same problems, though. Software development is a very personal endeavor.

Just to be clear, I am not saying that people in category A or category B are better/worse programmers. Just that everyone’s workflow is different so everyone’s experience with tools is also different.

The key is to be empathetic and trust people when they say a tool does or doesn’t work for them. Both sides of the LLM argument tend to assume everyone is like them.

“Chat” is already in the youth lexicon, originally referring to an amorphous blob of live stream viewers. It now kind of refers to a non-existent but omnipresent viewer of your life.

I think ChatGPT might turn into just “chat” as the next evolution of the term.

GitHub Copilot has a CLI now, I think it is in beta.

It also supports background agents that you can kick off on the GitHub website, they run on VMs

Sure it does, you wouldn’t call a photographer a painter. Really depends on the tool.

I feel like “memetic” is probably the best descriptor, you either love it or hate it but either emotion is a good way for something to stick in your brain.

I am on the stupid side, personally.

I dunno, I feel lately like we are right at the tail end of the honeymoon era and about to enter the era where the blog topic du jour is “use LLMs, not too much, mostly on a short leash”.

Not much to base that on other than vibes, though :)

shrug life as a developer in Microsoft-land is pretty nice these days. I quite like Azure Functions and Azure SQL Server, C# is great, Visual Studio is kind of slow but better than anything not made by JetBrains.

Really my only complaint is the lack of a nice, modern desktop UI framework but you can’t win them all.

> It wasn’t practical to convey knowledge in a short form previously because printing and distributing a blog post worth of info was too expensive.

I don’t think this is true, people have been printing newspapers, pamphlets, and leaflets for hundreds of years.

It isn’t only long form content that the printing press was good for, It’s just that the long term content tends to be remembered longer. Probably because it isn’t just long for the sake of being long :p