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The best style of agentic development is when you tell it "no, you should do this instead". That implies that you have the knowledge to do so.

Non-developers that try vibecoding default to a "yes, and" style.

> leaving Anthropic providing about 5x the value on their plans

5x is calculated in terms of API costs, nobody pays those extreme Anthropic prices outside enterprise users.

> like they didn't just double the cost for most users

Most users aren't on their $200 plan. Most users (including on the $200 plan) continue being subsidized.

I rather enjoy OpenAI's focus on cost-per-task.

I'm optimistic about them tackling frontier intelligence next. Astra 6.1 please?

> When you start adding variables to the search space (emi interference, matching routing impedances, heat management, mechanical integrity, etc) the search space grows so big that any non-expert will become lost in it.

Have you tried Astra?

I'm designing an analog ASIC. It will suggest e.g. transistor matching. You can also give it hints for layout.

You still need to validate with SPICE simulation (and obviously silicon).

I'm also looking into non-LLM scripts that use brute force aided by heuristics (e.g. lookup tables) to efficiently search the solution space.

"Have you seen any software run on Coral TPUs?"

"No, but I have seen the house that the project built, and it is terrific." ~ some Google director

Always has been. Your signed Android can open banking apps.

I haven't kept up with mainstream gaming in a while. IIRC, EAC v1 doesn't require TPM 2.0 and thus is security theater, right? An attacker could just tamper the binary.

The same goes for a binary protected by TPM 2.0, but the attacker would have to re-implement the protected parts. The defender's bet is that this should require too much effort/time/knowledge to bother.

Before: it wasn't possible to run these specific games that require this competitive anti-cheat on Linux.

So you can ignore the newly-enabled games in this proposal and you're not missing anything you had previously.

I thought about it, but no AUv3 integration and of course slower-than-native code. Not that it matters for emulating these chips.

Actually, let me grab it. [...] Hmmm, better than expected. It works out of the box, but there's note latency compared to native apps. Also, zooming and text selection appear even when you don't want them. Janky for real playing, okay for a demo.

Would be great as an iPad app.

Working on an FPAA ASIC, this is very relevant!

SPICE.

> 303 and 808 clones

It doesn't have nearly enough power for proper circuit modeling. You might as well use samples.

I don't get the hype. A processor 10'000x less powerful than a 2021 M1 iPad, sound quality of late 90s to early 2000s VA. It's cheap and sounds the part.

You CAN get an STM32 to sound beautiful and fun (shout out MI Braids), but in 2026 that's available in VCV Rack for free.

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