I find it crazy to build a complex system to juggle 10 different threads in your brain, including the complexity of the tool itself.

If I want AI slop, I'll gladly have a chat with my paid $20 bucks Gemini account.

There are other fair criticism of Qt, more specifically about Qt Quick/QML: the need for 2-3 languages (C++/QML/JavaScript), using C++, not using modern C++, not enough out-of-the-box widgets compared to Qt Widgets, and the clusterfuck that is layouts in QML.

Out of all, the only real one for me is layouts. They are painful to deal with. I never had a problem with Qt Widgets layouts though.

I played around with python scripts for the same purpose. The AI gives feedback that can be transformed to a percentage of correctness. One annoyance is that for Mandarin, the percentage is calculated at the character level, whereas with English, it gives you a more granular score at the phoneme level.

QML feels like a refresh with great ideas, bringing declarative UI and reactive programming. Where it falls short for me is it does not have feature parity with Qt Widgets, so you end up having to roll up your own components, wasting a ton of time. Dealing with layouts in QML is also an exercise in frustration.

“Mr hacker man can trick you to download an app and take all of grandmas money from the bank”, “North Korean hackers can tap into your baby cameras unless we gate the app installation process and charge 30%.”, etc.

I’d understand a complaint for heated seats subscription, but not for remote start.

Not only OS pre-installed apps are much slower, but it broke shortcuts and common sense behaviors.

Outages are in a large majority of cases caused by change, either deployments of new versions or configuration changes.

Ah, you like masochism I see. I bet you use it for your personal projects, but not at all for commercial projects. It’s just not there yet.

Reminds me of prop 13. If you challenge grandma having a $3M house paying peanuts for property taxes you are a monster.

If you defend young people that are ready to start a family, "they can kick rocks and move to Bumfuck, Middle-Of-Nowhere, no one is entitled to live in the Bay Area".

I've been blessed to have a good paying career in software engineering, but I've never really felt passionate about the products I work on. At the end of the day, my job is a paycheck. I do feel joy solving problems for others, improve society, be able to answer colleagues questions when they "come to my office". My family is happy that I can provide and that I am a role model for them.

I sometimes think I should work on things that make me happier. Sometimes I think that my career path is a mistake, I should work on problems "closer to god", make more meaningful contributions, build the next Kubernetes/ChatGPT/Google/, advance AI, climate change. I end giving up, I'm not that ambitious or driven.

I'm important to my family and colleagues. That may be good enough.

The performance boost in tools like ripgrep and tokei is insane compared to the tools they replace (grep and cloc respectively).

This tool wouldn’t be useful for most (if not) all enterprise services I’ve worked for. For enterprise, you want fully featured synthetics services such as Thousand Eyes, plus an internal monitoring and alerting system.

Also you typically don’t want to expose your health endpoint to the outside world. It’s a security risk.