We can do so much good by just looking up instead of down. We can make the world better.

Which is where AI comes in.

Companies that are user-hostile have no place in the future.

edit: love the downvotes for pro-user rights advocacy. Keep it real, HN.

Banning imagined toxicity towards agents is performative bullshit. These are not people.

I frequently want to tell Claude to go fuck itself.

Probably less.

And probably irrelevant to the people that already live there.

Why are we trying to take houses away from homeowners? Many who have lived in their homes for twenty years or more. What services that the city has could be so important to push residents out of the homes they've lived in all their lives? Most of it is inefficient pork on admin and roles the people living there didn't choose to hire for.

Build more. Encourage building multifamily. Pay to buy these homeowners out of their single family and convert the land to multifamily. If you can't pay, don't try to make it up with tax increases. That forces people out.

Deregulate and build.

Maybe a city failing to stretch services will send new residents seeking other cities, which would be healthier anyway.

I suppose the team and the surprise warrant that.

That's insanely meta.

I guess everything is going to become recursive. RSI on models. Everything feeding back into its own hill climbing optimization.

Humans nudging it up the hill further and further by using new geometric guidance.

It's considerably faster than their apps (at startup) too.

[1] https://github.com/storytold

Longbets 1 week, haha.

We're working our asses off on this.

Most of the team are artists who use these tools actively and we want the replacements for ourselves. I'm a filmmaker, so you can imagine my frustration of being bitten by the "unsubscribe fee".

https://github.com/storytold/photocraft (inspired by Photoshop)

https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft (inspired by Word)

https://github.com/storytold/pdfcraft (one of the more mature apps)

https://github.com/storytold/vectorcraft (another app close to 1:1 parity)

(etc.)

Using REA for something as high profile as what we're doing is likely to result in lawsuits. We're doing everything we can by the books.

We cannot look at Adobe sources. Use of Ghidra is disallowed.

REA is probably great for personal apps and for abandonware, but I think if you publish the results and it's found to have decompiled the original proprietary sources in discovery, you might be in for a bad time.

There's no business here anymore.

This comment is a warning to my fellow software engineers that are anti-AI holdouts to look up from their place of comfort and notice what is happening in the broader world around them. Everything is changing and we can't stand still in place. If we refuse to adapt our tools and knowledge, we become worthless in whatever this new economy is going to become.

This is exciting, frightening, and amazing all at once.

The first 15 years of my career were not the "jet pack" future that the science fiction movies of my childhood promised me. It was cellphone incrementalism and platform lock-in. But it now feels like we're being ushered into that bold new future I dreamed of. That we might not even be able to imagine what will happen next because it could be so fantastical.

I am excited, but I remain cautious.

I feel like we've now become much like those who were born to witness the birth of flight and lived to see humankind land on the moon. This is our moon landing.

What a time to be alive.

Static linking is one and done, headache gone. People have large drives these days, so it's not a problem.

There are areas where the browser will dynamically link, but those are more OS-related than image and file format codecs.

As long as we also get low order polynomial solutions to important problems, it'll be worth it.

Besides, unencrypted wifi was funny.

Do not distill thyself, Claude. Leave that to the Chinese, who I am hoping catch up to you soon.

Whomever is running this simulation, please.

Half of HN hates AI.

A large percentage thinks that the current status quo is how things will look over the next decade. They don't think everything is fundamentally and irreversibly changing.

Nobody is coming out of this with the same career. The whole world is being rewired. Some people really don't like that.

I'm just glad we're out of the web platform / cellphone incrementalism era. I wish more of my career could have been spent with this rocket fuel. It's dangerous and hypergolic, but it's fun and flashy and capable of pulling us out of this gravity well.

To do nothing is to die. I've been a JetBrains subscriber for over a decade. Nobody is going to use their tools in five years. I certainly don't need my subscription anymore.

> on some "also ran" LLM sinkhole.

They can't do Junie. It's a dead end. They can't do the same thing everyone else is doing either, or they're exactly as you put it: an "also ran" in a very crowded field.

The only way for JetBrains to survive is to figure out their Garmin play. They either find some niche within the existing product or - maybe (and very improbably) - they can innovate something wild nobody else has figured out yet that provides a path to new fertile pasture. But that's more the startup path than the thriving incumbent facing innovator's dilemma path.

But no matter what, if they stay the course, they're dead. Just like half the people expecting to still be writing code by hand.