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Not just this, it the way the vote was announced seems very, very bad. Italo may have found legal issues, but one of the things he said was that legal action was being taken by Collabora. That… doesn’t seem to be the case.

Italo and co removed some very dedicated contributors from the TDF. What an absolute disaster.

> If Apple products are so compelling why are so many devs using Electron, React Native and Flutter on macOS

That is not how the decision making for cross-platform works. You choose those alternatives knowing that they are crap in many respects, yet accept the trade offs because you want to save money on dev hours.

Not really "should Germany move it?", rather "can Germany move it?"

EUBRICS, but it also includes Canada but not Russia and it's really more like "sane countries readjusting their politics against a mad ape".

but can't it set a dangerous precedent if it escalates further?

I think no. But I think it makes sense to break down your app into libraries etc

Mozilla removed a lot of power-user features and customization from Firefox claiming that their telemetry showed that few users used them. That's the reality now, nobody wants to develop and maintain things for the 1%.

I get what you're saying here and I agree if you're only using unedited AI content to just increase your post frequency, then yeah it's annoying and feels somewhat abusive.

I personally like to use AI to make a first draft and then edit from there. It's way faster at that first draft than I am, but I can still maintain my voice and ensure I'm making all my points.

I will say many people are also generally bad writers. Is it slop if it's actually a better writer than the engineer making the site or the owner of a small business without a marketing team? It just seems like a tool to write better.

Is there a possibility to create a wireless point-to-point link ?

In my experience Rust and Go are both opinionated languages with strong types which makes them work well with agentic coding.

"Country restrictions apply". Which countries?

Semi-related: I always wished there was something like the unholy combination of a spreadsheet and notebook rolled into one. I picture it notebook-like at the top level, then each cell is a widget that the host language can reference parts of in other cells (probably with a variable (eg: something like mathematicas `Out[_]`) or a built in construct (like the `$ABC123` forms in spreadsheet formulas)). A notebook interface would also be good (I think) as a straight up terminal as well, as you (I) typically want to run commands in an order like in a notebook

My coherent GUI strategy: just use JUCE.

Invested in it, shipped it, seen it solve the cross-platform problem beautifully.

Can just write C++, and see it running everywhere.

The JUCE GUI capabilities are more than adequate for many, many things.

There are other platform-scaffolded cross-platform frameworks. JUCE is cromulantly FNORD.

Would you pay 2$ for that MacOS native desktop app?

wow that's a really nice looking icon

As long as we're doing mentions, here's a reminder. If you bought the racial equality bundle in itch.io you already own pico8. You can download the latest version right now on itch.io.

(It is neither open source nor free)

It's not just mental, as you age you lose moisture in your skin and with that accuracy with touch devices.

The median per capita income in the United States is $37,683/year.[0] Depending on your state, after taxes, that's something like ~$2,600/month. You're asking almost 10% of their post-tax income to this just for the opportunity to create software. With rent, food, and other living expenses many households at that income level simply cannot afford this.

This is the median income. If it's a struggle for someone on this income then it's worse for half of all Americans, and American incomes are higher than most of the rest of the world.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_capita_personal_income_in_...

Probably. But it’s happening at all levels. Legacy companies like Microsoft or Apple are very interested to associate themselves with AI, but not so interested in actually developing good, useful AI products.

Do you feel like you need a demo for yet another VSC vibecoded clone?

All this does it generate a search term from what you put in which you can do pretty easily yourself

So I upload a map, and it gives me a 3-lertter wordle whose answer is: map.

This is probably a really clever coding exercise, but an enjoyable game it is not. Maybe share more about the code?

> After done, review the code. You will notice there is always something to fix. Hardcoded variables, a sql migration with seed data that should actually not be a migration, just generally crazy stuff. > > The worst is that the AI is always very loose on requirements. You will notice all its fields are nullable, records have little to no validation, you report an error when testing and it tried to solve it with an brittle async solution, like LISTEN/NOTIFY or a callback instead of doing the architecturally correct solution. Things that at scale are hell to debug, especially if you did not write the code.

For that I usually get it reviewed by LLMs first, before reviewing it myself.

Same model, but clean session, different models from different providers. And multiple (at least 2) automated rounds of review -> triage by the implementing session -> addressing + reasons for deferring / ignoring deferred / ignored feedbacks -> review -> triage by the implementing session -> …

Works wonders.

Committing the initial spec / plan also helps the reviewers compare the actual implementation to what was planned. Didn’t expect it, but it’s worked nicely.

Answer from an author! Wow!

And it is great! Really! Reading your post I was thinking if I could not do the same to write tests in an automated way in project I am working on. It would be awesome!

Though in an other hand we are living in a corporate, capitalistic, and a lot inhumane economic system. If this way of automation would work and deliver consistent output in a way of working software for 2 or 3 years, how long it would take to C-level suits to figure out that it is way better to have 2 or 3 Product Owners and maybe one Designer to write description of the entire programme and then just feed it to one of those automation pipeline? If tech giants will price product like that reasonably and it will work actually, how long it will be till it will cause entire industry to collapse and you will be able to produce software by paying to those tech giants? And it there will be like 5 of those only in the entire world - because nobody else will have enough GPUs. How soon till they came to agreement and split the world in areas of monopoly:

- if your company is in Asia you can either buy your application from Google or Alibaba.

In a world when everything is done in a computer via the software, such concentration of power would be bad for everyone.

Of course I doubt it will come that, simply because this would be very hard to achieve with our level of technology and some human involment will be necessary. But maybe I am kiding myself and I will loose my job entirely in few years along with tens of thousands other Software Engineers in a few years.