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sorry to be that guy, but it's "at first blush"

Can you recommend good and capable open models? Where does one go? OpenRouter or someplace else?

@dang does hn have any defenses against accounts like this one?

I do all my dev in .NET on a mac, using Postgres and Sqlite only, so I don't relate to your experience at all. It's dead simple for me and I'm not even that good of a developer.

I do .NET dev exclusively on a mac completely within Visual Studio Code and it's by far the easiest and most enjoyable framework and ecosystem I've had the pleasure of working in. I couldn't be happier with it.

I'm a Plus subscriber using a Gmail address and still only see 3.6

I moved off my $200 max plan with Anthropic because of this. OpenAI gets it though.

And colon cancer is on the rise so now I have that to be worried about before my 40s.

Ah no worries. No SPAs for me, SSR all day.

Not my experience. I have large production apps that I'm able to maintain just fine with thousands of lines of JS.

I've only tried vanilla JS so far

Please don’t misunderstand my comment, I wasn't trying to diminish the brilliant work you’ve done on HTMX, which I’ve personally benefited from. I could have probably worded it better than I did. I'm also not saying you _did_ misunderstand it, only asking that you please don't. I was just sharing an observation that I realize is not everyone’s experience. I’m still a fan + supporter, even though I now reach for JS more often because the pain of writing it has largely disappeared. I’m still not a fan of it by any means, but LLMs have been a major mitigator. I'm always happy to see the HTMX updates when they come out.

All apps I build are server-side rendered. I'm not sure how your comment changes the the question I'm asking.

I've always been a fan and supporter of HTMX, but lately I've wondered how beneficial it is now that LLMs can generate JavaScript for us. HTMX was especially useful when I wrote JavaScript by hand because I appreciated its higher level of abstraction and simplicity. I also struggled to make it work with AlpineJS and eventually had to resort to plain JavaScript, which gave me finer control. Normally, switching to JavaScript would have been a hassle but since an LLM can produce it as easily as any other text, I’m less clear on HTMX’s advantage. I’ve been getting along fine without it. If computers didn’t write code for us, I would still choose HTMX, but now I find it hard to justify the trade‑off.

Most of what Trump does is illegal.