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Yet a lot of discussion around AI coding tools still seems centered on editor UX, autocomplete, and whether something is “just” an IDE, GUI, or TUI wrapper.

Especially as many major tools are now investing in cloud agents it makes me wonder if people are underestimating where the real leverage may be or if cloud just isn't actually "the future".

Are people here actually using cloud coding agents in real workflows yet?

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It seems like a common structural issue for technical founders. We naturally bias toward optimising code and feature completeness because that's what we are good at, while treating distribution as a secondary problem to be solved "later."

For the technical founders here who successfully transitioned from engineering a product to actually distributing it, how did you force that mindset shift? Did you bring on a co-founder, or did you brute-force the marketing yourself?

(I wrote up some of my own thoughts on this on Hashnode https://istiaq.hashnode.dev/the-ideas-in-startup-ecosystem, but I'm looking for practical advice from this community).

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I've noticed a rise in frustrating feelings around this. I just wanted to check if I'm alone or anyone else is feeling the same thing?

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Anyone experiencing the same issue?

OpenAI status does seem green

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Facebook thinks your the worst sort of person, accuses you of searching for child porn and - somewhat strangely - offers to refer you to counseling.

I have to say I felt offended. I also wondered if I’d been added to some watchlist for the sin of searching for a 300 disc CD player.

Very strange.

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curl -s https://url | sudo bash

is literal insanity. Root given. We know how accounts can be compromised, so obviously there is potential for that url to be replaced by a hacker with something malicious. We've even seen hackers compromise pages, and return the standard page, while targetting only a few people (geolocation, for example) with malicious data.

Yet there is also the possibility for malformed text to be returned. Bash will happily execute each and every line of:

  E#@%SDVsdcvxdsf4a6t4g
  erfgrr;rm * regdfgereridbd
  4524wfasrfv4

And beyond malformed, there could be a simple publishing error. There could be lines of code in the error message. Unknown text. Each and every line of text returned, is executed. I am just gobsmacked that this exists anywhere, ever, for any reason at all. I wouldn't execute such a command from my own personal web server, in my own internal lan, let alone remote.

When I see such inanity on a project page, it's a big read flag to me. Convenience over the most basic of security, or even simple validation that something didn't go wrong in a curl request. The evoked lack of trust that arises is as bile in my throat, what other shortcuts are taken by the project authors, which seem to barely understand the simplest of risk assessment?

Please, don't ever execute this. If you have to throw all sense and caution to the wind, and use a project which suggests this install method, well... at least curl > file and take 1 second to see the result.

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After that, tech mainly became grifting and scamming for as much money as possible. Between companies that raise absurd amounts of money for a pin that is your "friend"; companies that use open source as GTM (grift-to-market) strategy in order to later just say "fuck you" to their user base and take as much VC money as possible; space companies buying a freaking ide; or the entire tech sector burning so much energy just to generate ghibli styled cat pictures - I'm done with it. It seems like there are no morals or ethics in this field at all. It's just littered with surveillance tech, severe burnouts, and simple greed from "tech bros" in order to drive super cars or go to space. And in anyway, I'm just waiting for the inevitable future where I will be "laid off" because of "AI optimizations".

So, my questions is: People who have moved away from pure tech businesses / careers, and moved to traditional fields or maybe tech adjacent careers / founded businesses in these fields - what do you do and how did you get there?

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On one hand I see runaway popularity - 247K GitHub stars. 13,700 community skills. - I read about Chinese cloud provider forks. Stock market rally. Hosting providers offering managed OpenClaw hosting, same tier as WordPress.

But when I look at OpenClaw hub - the most-downloaded skill has 35K installs - Highest-rated skill: 132 stars

247K stars vs 35K installs looks like huge gap for me.

Other observations - Popular skills are pedestrian connectors (Gmail, search, Obsidian, Home Assistant) — things a dozen other tools already do - a lot of stock/trade skills, many in Chinese - I get charged per API call (I use Claude) on top of my monthly subscription

I read news about - "lobster trade", where stock rallies on OpenClaw-related announcements - Government subsidy: Shenzhen offering up to $1.4M grants for OpenClaw-based one-person companies, Wuxi $730K - company stock rallying in China when a company announces OpenClaw

I wanted to use OpenClaw in conjunciton with my robotics startup PMF search. I checked OpenClawRobotics - a community site for applying OpenClaw to robotics - and it appears to be abandoned. The signup form doesn't work.

Claude tells me - managed OpenClaw hosting now available is the telling signal. Infrastructure providers commoditize projects when novelty has passed and recurring revenue becomes the play. Late-cycle behavior, not early-cycle. - "Lobster trade" is a stock market phenomenon, not product adoption.

Don't get me wrong, I love the OpenClaw project. But I can't help noticing this and scratching my head.

What do you think?

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  1. gpt-5.5 (current)        Latest frontier agentic coding model.

  2. oai-2.1                  Latest frontier agentic coding model.

  3. gpt-5.4                  Latest frontier agentic coding model.

  4. gpt-5.2-codex            Frontier agentic coding model.

  5. arcanine                 Frontier model with legendary appetite for starches

  6. glacier-alpha            intelligence that moves continents

  7. glacier-alpha-block-cy3  ice-cold intelligence

  8. glacier-alpha-block-cy4  ice-cold intelligence

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If you were a product manager, what should Stack Overflow do to become great again?

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