tetraodonpuffer

I do not agree that not spawning agents makes things cost more, if at all a cycle of try / fix / repeat is easier to see and ctrl-c out of (assuming you are at the console and not letting things run while you sleep, which seems like a good idea on api pricing!) than a harness spawning 25 agents and burning through $200 in 10-15 minutes (not hard to do)

+1 on this one, there should be a tutorial with maybe a shorter word to explain how it works, this said I don't think I am smart enough for this one :D if the dots were fixed and you just had to reason on the connections, maybe, but being able to move dots left/right makes it a bit too hard at least for me. This could also be a "expert mode" thing too, have the basic mode with the dots where they are supposed to be, then expert mode making them movable

this is what I do, and it's fairly cheap nowadays if you just buy 2nd hand, I actually go so far as having virtualbox VMs for some of those within the same computer (say I have my "important accounts" computer that has some virtualbox VMs with each a browser with only some of those).

Gaming is a windows PC that has only games (so who cares) and a ps5 (so I can rent games at the library for free), development is a linux PC (where I containerize most things, as well as firejail etc.), web browsing is an x86 imac, I don't do socials, I also have a completely separate linux PC for art/drawing.

The vast majority of these has been bought for a couple hundred dollars 2nd hand from ebay or local university surplus (say they have all the time m1/16gb/500gb for $300-$400 imacs, or dell 16gb towers, or tons of dell laptops), the only expensive one was the linux development one as I bought a 5950x/128gb when it came out, but it has served me well, as long as you stay away from windows/mac you can go very far with really cheap hardware (DDR3 is plenty for banking / browsing / socials / factorio).

but would intel have enough capacity to swing the needle?

the convertible laptops are great, flip the screen back and use it like a big e-reader/ipad, if the macbook pro worked that way with full pencil compatibility (and being able to run all ipad apps) it'd have been amazing

even with unionization I am feeling this will not stop things, as it did not for all the unionized workers on the letterpress side of things displaced by DTP programs way back when.

If there is a legal way to lower employment costs (via outsourcing, AI usage, ...) eventually it will happen, as the market will reward companies that will take the option. I know this is not the current meta, but without regulation, things will keep moving in the same direction; unionizing might help in the short term for better buyouts etc. (of course) but if a transformative technology comes out that significantly changes the amount of labor you need to achieve the same result (and it does feel AI is one of those), eventually that technology will permeate the market.

well if you're in emacs you can C-x C-e evaluate whatever, and if you eval an edited version of whatever function emacs is calling, it just works as emacs calls the thing by symbol name; conceptually it's basically your editor is an elisp repl, so everything can be changed at any time (in general, things like defvar you'd need to setq and so on)

I am also a member of the 30+ year emacs club (with a detour to jetbrains some years back due to java) and it has been crazy how good claude is at implementing/debugging emacs extensions, I have it set up so it has emacs in its container and it is able to basically use it headless to debug whatever.

Saying "I want my editor to do X" and have it happen basically realtime on an editor I fully control is incredible. I have written elisp in the past, but it's definitely one of my weakest languages, so being able to leverage claude to do this is great.

for terminals I personally am using kitty, but libghostty is great and powers ghostel in emacs which is amazing. Also note if you start trying to look at unicode correctness, in my experience ghostty is in general the best among all alternatives.

definitely not frontier though, as even on max both legs are in front of the frame; although I am wondering how much getting that right correlates with model intelligence.

surprising it took nearly a month to acknowledge the bug

August 24, 2026: Wiz Research reports the vulnerabilities to the PHP security team.

September 21, 2026: PHP acknowledges the reports and begins developing a coordinated fix.

every elevator needed an operator, how many elevators can a technician support? And what is the upskilling software developers can do? Not every software developer can be a good architect, PM or sales person (and even if they could be, there aren't going to be as many open positions anyways).

it will also help with the environment by stopping a lot of forced obsolescence for no reason (apple rolls out a new OS every year, then magically wacom stops supporting perfectly working tablets in their new driver versions)