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Just curious, is that based on your own experience or negative reviews you’ve read online? I’m using the Duo now and quite like it. It’s a first-gen device, so it has its quirks, which is expected. Calling it the worst phone is a bit of an exaggeration though. It’s a foldable, not a conventional phone, so you can’t really expect to use it the same way.

Hold back Chrome standards, you mean? Features that work in Chrome but not in other browsers. There are even features that work better in Safari than Firefox. Not everything Chrome pushes should automatically become the standard.

Personally, I don’t care about most of those Chrome specific features. I use Safari because it’s fast and battery efficient. The fact that it’s not made by a company whose main business is advertising is a nice bonus.

Sure, Apple has an advertising business too, but it’s nowhere near the scale of Google’s.

Kinda bugs me when people who are against Safari/Apple are also the same people pushing Chrome/Google. Sometimes it feels like web developers these days are basically Chrome developers.

I do get it. Chrome has the majority of users, so it’s easier to just develop and test on Chrome and know you’ve covered most of your users.

But isn’t that just pushing us towards a Chrome monopoly? Safari holding back some web features is annoying, sure, but having Chrome decide what the web should support and everyone else having to follow doesn’t sound much better to me.

Anything powered by Siri is pretty much a failed product to me right now. I’ve been using the new Siri for a while, and it’s okay, but it still fails on most of my requests.

Maybe it’s my accent? But ChatGPT and Claude have no trouble understanding what I’m saying, so I’m not sure what the issue is.

I saw some discussion about potentially being able to use ChatGPT or Claude as Siri’s backend instead of Apple Intelligence. That would be much more interesting to me.

> the tooling and ecosystem to handle it

That’s the whole point, though. If the tools I use don’t handle it properly, it’s annoying. Saying it’s an ecosystem problem doesn’t change that.

How long has it been now? And from what I’ve seen, even Google’s own stuff doesn’t always handle it. That’s not helping their case.

In Malaysia, we have DuitNow, which is a similar idea. It’s been great. It’s pretty common to go cashless now, even outside the big cities and in rural areas. Just scan the QR code with your bank app, pay, and you’re done. Wish more countries would adopt this.

Cross-post from the 1.0 thread. I’m currently building a harness for Slack to support our on-call and support channels. It’s been working great so far.

The harness is built on top of the Pi SDK. I initially used Codex, but Pi seems more hackable, and I like that it’s vendor-agnostic by default.

Running it on Kubernetes works, but dealing with the JSONL session files and making sure sessions survive pod interruptions adds some complexity. I’m using DBOS for that right now, which works well, although it still feels like overkill.

This came at just the right time. I’m looking forward to removing the pieces I no longer need and simplifying the architecture. Thanks Pi team!

I’m currently building a harness for Slack to support our on-call and support channels. It’s been working great so far.

The harness is built on top of the Pi SDK. I initially used Codex, but Pi seems more hackable, and I like that it’s vendor-agnostic by default.

Running it on Kubernetes works, but dealing with the JSONL session files and making sure sessions survive pod interruptions adds some complexity. I’m using DBOS for that right now, which works well, although it still feels like overkill.

The 1.0 release came at just the right time. I’m looking forward to removing the pieces I no longer need and simplifying the architecture!

So many negative comments here. Among my circle, it’s not uncommon for people to have multiple $200 accounts. This seems like it would make things easier for them by letting them use one account instead of juggling two or more.

What they’re doing with billions of tokens every week, beats me. But these users absolutely do exist.

Unless you’re using frontier models like Astra, Sol, Fable, or Opus, I think you’re often better off using Chinese models for a fraction of the price. I’m not sure people realises just how competitive they’ve become.

GLM and DeepSeek are great examples. They’re a bit like Linux or Android in that there isn’t necessarily one best provider. You need to do some research, try a few, and pick whatever works best for your use case.

I think that’s partly why Anthropic has been pushing its most expensive models so heavily for a while now. Sonnet and Haiku were great, but at that level of intelligence it’s becoming much harder for them to compete on price with Chinese models that have largely caught up.

The main reason to use frontier models from Anthropic or OpenAI now is the combination of intelligence and speed. Chinese frontier models still struggle to match that, possibly in part because of hardware constraints. But judging by the recent GLM releases, they seem to be moving in the right direction.

Clients paid us just fine. It really isn't that hard or expensive. It's not rocket science.

Put aside the usual web-dev perspective for a moment. As developers, we build for our users.

The web and native apps serve different purposes. Users do not use a website the same way they use a mobile app, and the trade-offs are different.

I’m getting tired of web developers failing to acknowledge that and treating web technology like a hammer that needs to be applied to every nail they come across.

And especially when people say “the web”, what they often really mean is Chrome and the Chromium ecosystem. A lot of web apps barely get tested properly on Firefox or Safari, which only reinforces Google’s monopoly over the web platform.

Yes, app stores have their problems. That does not make the web the right answer for every product.