- n144q parentOf course that is what he says publicly. Can you imagine him saying anything different on this already very heated PR comment section? Those would be quoted in a headline in a news article the next second.
- If Zed wants to treat Windows as a second class citizen, I don't want to change their mind. I am sure plenty of people other than me are willing to help and have the ability to contribute. The fact that there is no official build for Windows for so long says plenty about the project. The writing is on the wall.
I am not an idiot. Recent developments in the open source world should already give everybody a better idea of where they should spend their time and energy.
- I could, but nobody is going to trust my binary. And they shouldn't.
The build should come from the official maintainer. Period.
And participating in open source? Oh, I can assure you I am a seasoned open source contributor, but I am not going to just contribute to a random project. Wasted too much time on issues and pull requests that nobody looked at.
Easy to criticize other people, right? What have you done?
- That's a lot of accusations without evidence. VSCode does questionable things, but nowhere near the levels you are describing.
And is there any evidence that VSCode is not secure, by Node.js standard? Has there been significant security incidents that were not handled properly? Has VSCode been neglecting security issues?
No to all those questions, based on my experience. Node.js inherently is loose on permissions -- by default you can do IO/connect to Internet however you want -- but that's not VSCode's fault. Otherwise, VSCode team has been very responsive at handling security issues.
(Saying this as an experienced VSCode user and extension developer.)
- This is much less likely in a company. Any sane company decides on a clear direction which way to go. Either do X and put resources in it, or not and instead focus on something else. They may change directions, but never "maybe X" at a specific point in time. Someone at the company makes a decision on this.
Of course, with notable exceptions. See Apple Car, Android tablets etc.
- > At least, it was exactly that environment that gave us the amazing product that has changed the world.
You need some extraordinary evidence to claim things like that.
To stretch things a bit, it's like saying, while male dominated the field of engineering in the 60s (and still do), it was exactly that kind of environment that made it possible for humans to get to the moon. Can you actually prove it? Really?
It's hard for me to imagine using git will slow down kernel development compared to sending patches in emails.
- > But if my computer can quickly realize that I'm deleting every odd-numbered page of a PDF, or renaming every file to add a prefix, or following each link on a website and saving an image... and then just instantly automate the next 100 times... that's going to be huge!
The first two tasks could be easily done by asking ChatGPT to write a script for you. Scraping a website can be a bit more tricky. Still, I don't see why you have to rely on "computer use" for these tasks -- there are much more efficient and reliable approaches to the tasks.
- * you can always choose to self a small model, although it probably doesn't work as well
* it's not a "random third party". You know to whom the data is being sent, and at least according to service agreements, most services don't use your data for training. If you don't trust Claude, you could trust AWS hosted version, or GPT/Deepseek hosted on Azure. Well, if you think Amazon/Microsoft is not trustworthy and they may misuse your data in these cloud services (not some random consumer facing service where you are the product), you might as well give up your digital life.
- I learned much from just scrolling HN. Technical articles help me know the latest updates in various areas, dive deep into a topic, or develop new skills. I applied quite a few things I learned in my job. Fundamentally, most links on HN are articles, many of which are quite long, which tend to be more focused and informative.
Completely non-technical ones are few, and you can always choose to ignore them.
The feed is also non-personalized. It's not going to show a few more article on politics just because you linked on one.
By comparison, reddit is much, much worse, almost the opposite of HN. Just a bit better than Twitter, maybe. Most of my reddit browsing/participation falls into tech/hobby, yet I always find that spend more time than I'd like on meaningless stuff, and reddit keeps pushing/promoting political content (even in the context of technology).
My solution? Don't browse reddit unless I really need to for some reason (or if I really don't have anything else to do at that time).
- Using LLMs to write code for you is solving problems. The argument is almost like saying "using a third party library is not solving a problem on your own". If it gets the job done, it works.
I enjoy writing code, but I enjoy seeing getting a feature out even more. In fact, I don't quite enjoy the part of writing basic logic or tweaking CSS which an intern can easily do.
I don't think anybody is writing prompts all day long. If you don't actually know how to write code, maybe. But at this point, a professional software engineer still works with a code base with a hands-on approach most of the time, and even heavy LLM users still spend a lot of time hand writing code.
- Agree with many of the points here, especially the part with one-off, non-production code. I had great experience letting ChatGPT writing utility code. Once it provided Go code for an ad-hoc task which runs exactly as expected on first try, when it could cost me at least 30 minutes that's mostly spent on looking up APIs that I am not familiar with. Another time it created an HTTP server that worked with only minor tweaks. I don't want to think about life before LLMs existed.
One thing that is not mentioned -- code review. It is not great at it, often pointing out trivial or non issues. But if it finds 1 area for improvement out of 10 bullet points, that's still worth it -- most human code reviewers don't notice all the issues in the code anyway.
- Listen to some ATC communications (lots of websites and YouTube videos out there), and try to get a sense of how complicated it is.
You really think you are the first person smart enough to come up with this idea? If this worked, it would have been automated many many years ago. We probably would not even need pilots.
- Thanks! The "depends on an undocumented thing" happens quite often for such projects from companies, and is enough to hold people back -- in a company where a third party library requires approval, such issues mean that a fix could take a while before it is available internally, which could delay your own work etc. A lot of this probably comes down to the ecosystem -- not enough people are using these things to discover them early.