If you only need git hosting, do whatever wherever you want.

Either I'm not smart or disciplined enough to make it work, or my colleagues are not. Mostly both.

Anyways, I wish them a speedy and successful acquisition.

Maybe it will help to return to a more git oriented workflow instead of a GitHub oriented one.

It was not for a lack of motivation or a lack of cut-throat pursuit, consequences be damned.

Whatever the actual increase in productivity may be, the commits, clones, pushes, action runs, etc. are skyrocketing.

Unless he's offering it to the aliens orbiting his magical lawless space data centers.

Microsoft, Amazon and google will be okay if openai and anthropic burn to the ground. They can and do host open-weights models.

What kind of special whitespace requirements do people have?

There is danger in over-fitting the agent. Fast release cycles require frequent model switching, sometimes to another provider altogether.

In the end, it's hard to measure improvement. Most of the advice out there is vibes based, treat it as such.

Let's keep ourselves a bit grounded.

No, payments certainly don't run on JavaScript, unless all you know about payment systems are the web frontends.

If anything, the time of the ubiquitous JS might be over when anyone can generate native UI without electron.