This I have been doing a bit. I strictly asks it to never give me suggestions but raise questions, concerns, tell me if it feels if something can be better, style-wise or otherwise without giving me those options.

And a bit of other overall feedback requests.

And if the model adheres to this and doesn't jump the gun, it indeed works quite nice. But it often jumps the gun, forgets, doesn't give a f- about my instructions, or whatever. Maybe more robust local models will better.

So maybe it was about one of those parts and the lower one looks like it could be a decent paving stone.

As for invoking @dang, I hope dang at least has some sort of custom notification for his own username mentions. I wouldn't mind this entire thread/sub-thread getting nuked, along with mine and your comments (yes, both!). But as things go on hn, and dang has emphatically shown over the years, some OT discussions are more OT than other OT discussions. So yeah, there you go.

And you specifically pointing out things in your comment? There was a reason I chose not to reply to you. (And no, I am not implying you should not have chosen to reply to me, not at all!)

> Businessmen were able to navigate all this mess and were suddenly unable to handle GST? Please!

I mean someone can say this with straight face in India today? Ffs :D

Anyway what I am trying to say is - PC very swiftly tried to portray that they are here for "engaging" until they were not and to resort the "this is fake media" style of engagement.

I mean ffs PC themselves linked an article by India Today. Yes, India Today.

So no matter how much the US fucks up, they just print more and more dollars and ensure the entire world collectively pays up for their fuck-ups. But if the US doesn't fuck up and does something good, then the benefits of that? Oh, that's a different story. No excessive benefit printing, no sir.

All hail exorbitant privilege.

What changed more? I rarely read an article now. Rarely! I don't feel like it and whenever I bother it's just not worth it. That has been the biggest shift for me.

In last year or so (or more), hn has become almost 100% monotonous. So much that it is distasteful.

For a lot of people (and orgs I'd guess) who just go and buy ≈$20 per month plans (or more for teams), they might not even need a fraction of that cost or capability. A lot of them don't even need it for coding or graphics. Even the API access based pricing aren't great from these frontier US AI houses. The distribution of "LLM being" offered will also give rise to many open-router like offering but at the end point level - direct interfaces to the customers. Pick your vendor sort.

AI shouldn't become another "search means Google".

KMP I guess missed the ship and that ship has sailed quite deep into the ocean now. PWA won't be a choice anymore except for the "niche" usage.

React Native? I guess there will be use cases for this (at least for a while) as it is deeply entrenched into too many apps and many of those are very famous apps. Besides there's always been automasochism for the reason to pick react native.. so that's there :D

I will also expect native to pickup now (unless we only see single person tech teams now) because of AI. I mean as LLMs started getting better at coding my first thought as a native dev was - hah, hopefully people won't have to deal with such monstrosities in even small teams now.

Also, not having to see a package.json with a trillion entries (and counting) alone can put all these choices above RN for me.

Further:

> I just hate most things around Android.

and yet you say

> React Native: totally viable

It's just strange someone "hating things about Android" and then is "totally viable" about things react native. This must be some "personal" sort of hatred. I am saying this as someone who has always struggled and cursed the toolings around Android and then started appreciating it once I had to deal with "xcode world" and things "web dev". React native? That was another level of nightmare relatively speaking from development perspective.

> ICloud went on to become a bigger business than Dropbox

And a worse app/service and that's saying something because Dropbox isn't even a shell of what it used to be. I'd agree with Jobs' observation of original Dropbox being a feature. But not any more.

As for "take it".. really?

> The product has largely remained the same

It seems to be coming from someone who hasn't been using Dropbox, at least not of late.

Also, I think their paying users used to be 2-3%. So yes PEs like this kind of chance of quick squeeze and squeeze and dry it and then leave it to die. I would reckon PEs would see a lot of one-time juice making opportunity here.

Here are some alternatives if anyone is looking

https://editorio.crncevic.org

https://macdown.app/ (FOSS)

https://github.com/MarkEdit-app/MarkEdit (FOSS)

And if you must have an electron one then here are some FOSS options https://marktext.me

mailbox.org can be avoided if you need to send and receive emails from domains where the mail admins might not be email admin savants and/or privacy activists (sometimes that's not a choice in case of Govt services etc and you may not live in a country when you can get those changes done). Also, if you ever face an issue and send them an email, expect the reply to come in weeks (if you are lucky) and that too a flippant (sometimes even terse) nothing-mail and then if you respond the cycle repeats until you give up.