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This is honestly very sad news. The Arc UX is still my favorite desktop browser UX out there even to this day, even though feature development stopped over a year ago!

The auto-hiding sidebar, the pins, the smart folders, split tabs, command bar…

I will miss you Arc! Now to find a new browser ;(

100vh, PWAs, and full screen support that isn’t absolute garbage aren’t exactly bleeding edge features

IME those kinds of interviews are a waste for the applicant because you have to do your 5-10 minute elevator pitch and 10-15 minute dive into your experience 9 separate times. It’s terribly exhausting.

On the other hand I like meeting a lot of people that I’d be working with. It’s nice to start day 1 knowing who people are.

I know cyclomatic complexity has been heavily debated for a long time, but I do think it’s valuable. It’s really good at highlighting common annoyances like overly clever code, nested ternaries, dense functions with too many branches…

The only thing is that these issues seem like human code problems and IME LLMs don’t really write code like this anymore. It’s almost the opposite in python, actually, where Claude leans on writing lots of 2-3 liner private utils which is a separate kind of complexity and organization problem.

I still find it useful specifically for React where it’s frustratingly normalized to write many branches in your JSX though.

It could be useful for us with home labs for the same reasons. Kind of annoying to deploy docker containers for all the services I build that amount to personalized/skinned trello boards.

> That's it.

Yeah ignoring the massive environmental, social, and moral implications I suppose it’s not a big deal at all.

People used to love giving out plastic bags for one item. Who needs a bag for a single item??

Every winter in my city, once the leaves all fell, our trees would be draped in shredded plastic bags. Banning single use plastic bags has done a significant amount to beautify this place.

// Workaround because we don’t have an age column in the db. See JIRA-1234

This would be better IMO :)

Most of the context belongs in a ticket. And the difficulty is subjective!

HTML describes the structure of a document, not really the layout.

If HTML had <inline> <block> <column> <row> or <grid> tags, sure. But CSS determines the layout via display/position properties.

“Filters, including no filters. The request carries whatever filter object the page already has.

…

No step here involves choosing based on meaning. It is a filter, a sort, and a slice.”

This is from Opus five minutes ago. I can certainly derive meaning from these kinds of statements in isolation, but paragraph upon paragraph of this is unintelligibly dense when trying to work with Claude to come up with a plan.

The worst part is that it can’t even make its responses make sense when asked to summarize in simple English or < 200 words. It simply cannot be steered to make its prose legible.

Everyone is fighting OP on this extremely reasonable take when some of us are dealing with coworkers that copy slack messages/JIRA ticket comments/PR feedback into Claude and respond with the pasted output as is back like that’s completely acceptable.

Like I don’t need to be placated by someone else’s AI agent when I call out something in a PR, especially when they have such an aversion to conciseness and resolution

I have to preface all my prompts with, “in simple, plain English…” because it doesn’t respect my rules on this stuff.

I’m glad to read I’m not the only one getting these unintelligible responses from Claude lately

Mr lucky over here with an agent that removes code!