And local inference requires fairly beefy hardware, that is FAR from ubiquitous across today's userbases. Local models are also still far dumber than what frontier labs can serve.

Weird that this is getting such a tidal wave of upvotes.

All the AI players definitely seem to be trying to claw more money out of their users at the moment.

On the STRICT mode, I've asked this elsewhere and never gotten an answer: does anyone have a loose-typing example application where SQLite's non-strict, different-type-allowed-for-each-row has been a big benefit? I love the simplicity of SQLite's small number of column types, but the any-type-allowed-anywhere design always seemed a little strange.

There's a thing in writing, "pity the reader" - respect your audience's time, get to the point. In The Elements of Style, "omit needless words."

You can prompt models to be succinct, but the latest ones - GPT 5-series especially - ignore your requests and spew paragraphs upon paragraphs of noise. Maybe it's the incentives of charging per token?

If you want, I can expand on this topic and generate a lengthy comparison chart.

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So by default you send all this to Microsoft by opening your IDE.

I do wonder if productivity with AI coding has really gone up, or if it just gives the illusion of that, and we take on more projects and burn ourselves out?

It's not only steered me off of Windows, but Azure, Office, and anything else with the Microsoft name on it. I'll do my best to steer family and business customers off likewise.

Trust is earned over years, and whoever the execs are that pushed all these shitty short-term squeezes on their customers, the company now gets to pay the reputational price.

Agree with OP here, if AI coding tools are as intelligent and amazing as AI influencers and CEOs are saying, just prompt them to "Remake UV but faster & better".

This seems like 1980's corporate waterfall thinking, doesn't jibe with the messy reality I've seen with customers, unclear ideas, changing market and technical environments, the need for iteration and experimentation, mid-course correction, etc.

A couple "win" examples: add in-text links to every term in this paragraph that appears elsewhere on the page, plus corresponding anchors in the relevant page parts. Or, replace any static text on this page with any corresponding dynamic elements from this reference URL.

Lose examples: constant, but edit format glitches (not matching searched text; even the venerable Opus 4.6 constantly screws this up), unnecessary intermediate variables, ridiculously over-cautious exception-handling, failing to see opportunities to isolate repeated code into a function, or to utilize an existing function that exactly implements said N lines of code, etc.

Is it possible to make money these days without being ethically bankrupt?