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Or just patch and keep enjoying fast, convenient, accessible, flexible PHP?

Off-topic but Reddit now requires sign-in to see old.reddit. They destroyed it, "to keep us safe".

Further more, if in Australia or a few other places like Brazil, UK, France, reddit won't let you sign in at all unless you're proven to be over 16. Bottom line, linking to old.reddit is similar to linking to a paywalled article.

The problem is design is a skill for humans by humans. It gets neglected beyond AI's initial rounded corners, stock buttons and forms.

If AI nails design, it's by accident, not because it thought through design strategies relative to business needs, target audience, or any number of other factors.

Unlike its excellent coding skills, AI can't judge whether your eagerly generated features should be scaled back or omitted because of where this "app thing" is placed relative to other "app things".

AI: "You're thinking the right way. Leaderboard now added. Would you like staff to receive regular emails with updates on their leaderboard position?"

> the ease

The guy who made it said there's lots of work to do, a "long way to go" and that he needs help fixing the bugs. Doesn't sound easy.

I responded to someone who sounded like they were upset on Adobe's behalf "Oh no! Price-hiking subscription monster might feel the pressure!" So what? We all feel pressure, every day. Adobe has billions of dollars to help them threw uncertain times. They'll be fine.

> I'm not sure how to respond

I can't help you with that sorry.

> "terrified"

Says you. Did you ask someone who works for Adobe? Maybe you could try.

Again, what you call "clone software" is an image editor. There's always been "clones" in that case. Maybe Photoshop "cloned" Photon Paint or Deluxe Paint.

There's a website called Photopea.com where you can open a PSD file and edit it. Big deal.

Big players supply long term support, innovative new features, and all the things people pay for and depend on. The little clones are cute. The Vibe-coded software is nice.

Maybe stop being terrified on behalf of big subscription enforcing companies? They will be fine. Let them adapt. Maybe Adobe will bring back a perpetual license option they never should have abandoned.

I don't understand the fuss. Other image editors have always existed. Photoshop doesn't own selecting pixels and doing stuff to that selection. Nobody owns that.

The AI disruption means now, your product better be fucking good. Beacon status in a sea of slop. That's all, no pressure.

Interesting the community pushback on datacentres. I wonder if people are asking "do we need 7 trillion vibe-coded photocraft apps in our neighbourhood?"

By the way I don't think Adobe hangs around lamenting its status as original king of media editing tools, with its own word, who others like to imitate and aspire to. It's not the drag it sounds like!

> tell my children to pursue...

How about letting them decide? Problem solved for you and them.

> But lots of people do.

Do they? Deliberately? I wasn't aware Cursor AI could browse my system in the background, looking for stuff in unrelated folders and files until I caught it doing exactly that. Sandboxing it to the working folder is a sad exercise in compromise and negotiation. The end result is "kinda sandboxy" rather than a hard boundary.

All the talk of AI ethics and somehow "permissions" has slipped by. I feel like we're back in iPhone 3 days where iOS apps could read and take your contacts without asking, until people complained, then it was finally addressed.

It wasn't a school in the suburbs. It was next to a legitimate military target, and that's why it was hit tragically and unintentionally.

I've seen the satellite images. You could probably throw a baseball from the compound to the school.

If Iran's navy were stationed off the Florida coast and their commanders making threats, US authorities would remove children from the schools near military bases. Wouldn't they?

Yes I know, and I would expect if Iran's navy were stationed off the Florida coast and their commanders making threats, US authorities would ensure children weren't concentrated near military bases within striking range.

The school was next to a military compound and was originally part of the compound.

All parties are expected to protect civilians. Iran were obligated to move non-combatants, especially children, out of immediate danger zones around military targets. They didn't do that. Instead the school was packed with kids while US military is parked outside, tensions higher than ever. Iranian authorities failed their own people. Again.

You can though, by clicking the name in top left header of the currently open panel.

Please revisit your CMS idea. They're still around, like Kirby and others.

You are right about the old templating systems. I still use them. I still use PHP, it's ridiculously fast and mature. It has a readability unmatched by other languages (for devs like me with design background).

I'm surprised to hear CS people like yourself talking up the old templating systems!

> I hate modern web development.

For me, modern web dev is about modern CSS and JS and native browser APIs and all that fun stuff. It's ironic now with LLMs, the people caught in the grinding gears of MVC bloat are benefiting least from LLM.

Well, perhaps I can't make that claim, but the point is LLMs do a fantastic job at focused, single-layer arrangements such as the good old templating systems, vanilla JS and just direct "old school" frontend coding. Why burden ourselves or the LLM with truck loads of layered dependencies or a million steps to hello world? No need but people get angry on this topic though, so I just do my thing in my corner of the web and deliver results for those I build for.

I thought of that, but dismissed the idea due to reality.

In reality, deliberately taking a second recording device other than your phone, escalates intention and risk. If we assume the visitors were unaware of the phone rule before arrival, there's no chance anyone will bring a second recording device.

> A visitor who wants to record...

Will use the recording device they already carry.

If discovered, your phone can hide behind a million excuses. "whoops, I forgot to end my call" or "whoops, I forgot to shut down my streaming app." It can also hide its recording status when using certain covert or custom apps. It is the ultimate recording device able to operate in the open.

> He won't let you into his house with a smartphone

His mistrust might be about the phone's owner and the recording apps they might use, more than the smartphone itself.

Socially it's much safer to direct suspicion at "the smartphone" rather than the people invited to your house.