selcuka

> As a result, city streets are frequently blocked by delivery drivers.

How is it different than customers driving to the restaurant? Are you suggesting that there should be less restaurants, or people should use public transport to pick up food?

> aren’t as viable an alternative to Google for those who want a fully integrated suite

Don't worry, they can vibe code the rest in no time. /s

Setting up a snitch network to "ruthlessly smash everything that stands in the way" suggests that you are a bad guy.

> It's going to be funny when AI soon costs 4x or more than it does now

What exactly will cause that? Hardware costs are (generally) going down, and open weight models are getting smarter. The subsidised subscription prices will go away, sure, but I don't see the average token getting more expensive.

A touchscreen laptop is only a good idea if it can also be used like a tablet (with a detached keyboard). Otherwise it's useless.

I guess the question is whether you could have done the same using Haiku High/XHigh or Opus Low/Medium at roughly the same speed and cost.

It is correct. The richest 10% now earn 53% of global income. The top 10% average income/bottom 50% average income ratio has went from 18x to 38x in the last 200 years.

> It read to me as a case of: "only webpages are software, and I'm afraid of the command line".

I think you've missed this part:

> Terminal CLI: High-throughput local processing and bash scripting.

> They're both real possibilities.

Of course, but the fact that there are two possibilities does not mean that they are equally probable. The GP "worked at a local government" and they say that "delaying or charging a lot was [...] employed internally."

Why does it have to be a film camera? A "real" camera can still be a digital one.

> If you go back 100 years old children were abused far more

I don't understand the argument here. 100 Years ago they were abused more, but last year they were abused less. So increasing the dosage of the abuse is ok as long as it doesn't exceed your random benchmark of 100 years ago?

What happens when your competitors invest in better and more expensive tools or materials in general? They (potentially) make better products, but those products also cost more. It's turtles all the way down.

> It is not cheaper than using a frontier lab

Are you comparing to subscription prices or API prices? Because if it's the former it won't last forever.