Windows and macOS are just too risky to do any business with. Waste of all resources.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258982

And recently like 1 of every 10 consecutive songs just doesn't play. When clicking on the song, it feels like the app tries to redirect original song link (the "app" is a website) to some other link and it doesn't find it. As an example, Madonna - Frozen (from 1998 Ray of Light album) just doesn't play, just tried.

I have been paying Spotify customer since 2008 or something, I have playlists that are so old that it doesn't show dates added. Last week I cancelled my subscription, and switched to YouTube Premium (no ads + YT Music). YT music is even more horrible especially with playlists. Maybe I just buy somewhere (Amazon MP3?) my the 10 most listened albums and call it my music listening for the future.

For the terminology, I consider "vibe-coding" as Claude etc. coding agents that sculpts entire blocks of code based on prompts. My use-tactic for LLM/AI-coding is to just get the signature/example of some functions that I need (because documents usually suck), and then coding it myself. That way the control/understanding is more (and very egoistically) in my hands/head, than in LLMs. I don't know what kind of projects you do, but many times the magic of LLMs ends, and the discussion just starts to go same incorrect circle when reflected on reality. At that point I need to return to use classic human intelligence.

And for COBOL + AI, in my experience mentioning "COBOL" means that there is usually DB + UI/APP/API/BATCHJOB for interacting with it. And the DB schema + semantics is propably the most critical to understand here, because it totally defines the operations/bizlogic/interpretations for it. So any "AI" would also need to understand your DB (semantically) fully to not make any mistakes.

But in any case, someone needs to be responsible for the committed code, because only personified human blame and guilt can eventually avert/minimize sloppiness.

Maybe missions in Venezuela, Iran etc. was accomplished so easily, that it blurred the judgment of what could be done. But those countries are different than a conglomerate of 450 M people / 27 countries. And now military and economic thinking/domains/threats were also mixed. "Weak EU leaders" can and are now forced to unite as one strong resistance.

I'd say what matters again is authenticity, i.e. intentful design and intentful business==product(s). Businesses==product(s) that are created to respect the user, make their life (private-/businesswise) less sad. Giving prompt "make me a unicorn" isn't authentic/intentful business/product design. Real businesses==products have to prove their reason for existence (and keep doing it ad infinitum), so customers can trust them and keep them alive with cash flow.

If there is a bad business/product in market, in a long run it is buyers to be blamed, because they are the ones supporting its existence with cash flow. VC/loan cash can only give time==money for companies couple of years, because eventually someone has to pay the cost.

And I'd say the most "quality/intentful" products are not the ones that makes the most money on the market. One has to choose whether do design "The Witness" xor "Candy Crush Saga".

And what comes to original article, there is no "text [systems]" (or there is, like there are "number [systems]", just made up). "Text" like this very thing you are reading is 2D drawing. There are no character glyphs of any kind (latin, logograms etc.) defined by universe*, they are human invented and stored/interpreted at human collective level. Computers don't know anything about text, only "numbers" of some bit width, and with those numbers a system must be created that can map some number representation to some drawing in some method (e.g. with bitmap). Also there is a lot of difference between formal/executable and natural human languages. Anyways, it's not a about some text format/encoding, it's the human/computer defined/interpreted non-linguistical meaning behind it (Wittgenstein).

* DNA/RNA can be one such "universal character glyph/string", as the "textual" information is physically constructed and interpreted.

Quality vs quantity of course depends on the nature of work. If you are employee and all the working infrastructure is ready there to be used, you can "just" focus on doing something, what ever it is. If you are employer, you can't "just" even go to the work, because you have to use unpredicted amount of time to figure out what you even need to do or have and why.

Whether you are employee or employer, make sure you feel the practical progress, that is, e.g. once a week you can have status session, where you can show that now you have something that you didn't have at last session, and that it is important step for the end goal.

Try to explode different things, so you can see clear boundaries of each separate thing and to minimize redundancy.

Try to map the depencency graph of a thing. Every higher level thing is a make file / spreadsheet cell DAG.

https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md

Just like Fossil vs Git, SQLite vs $SomeRealSQLServer, I wish someday Althttpd would become a no-bullshit self-contained replacement for Nginx/Apache/whatever bloated HTTP servers. It has already proved its working by serving Fossil/SQLite, but configuration/features for serving actual web site is not yet "real production quality", at least that is how I feel.

Overall, what an amazing legacy this set of software has been to the world.

On the macOS side, it gets more locked and buggy and inconsistent with every release.

This is just a general comment for Apple OSs today, not specifically version 26.2.