You can see this in practice by looking at the leaked Claude Code source code. It is a harness around Anthropic's model built for writing code. It relies on heavily engineered (and sometimes brittle) steering mechanisms. These range from highly specific situational prompts to deterministic, hard-coded logic that executes based on the model's output.

Getting a harness right is incredibly hard and feels like whack-a-mole at times.

All the tools are here for a good photo editing product - they just need to be extracted and arranged in a way that is intuitive for photo editing, and this would be a legitimate LR alternative.

edit: This is a great video on the Photo tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuKgfytA0lg. I do feel a little more confident that I could use Resolve for editing after watching this.

I do hope they split this out to a separate focused product, as the photo editing space is in dire need of more options.

> Whether you’re a professional colorist looking to apply your skills to fashion shoots and weddings, or a photographer who wants to work beyond the limits of traditional photo applications, the Photo page unlocks the tools you need

As someone who hasn't touched DaVinci products before (but a lot of experience with LR) - I am immediately confused by the integration of photo editing here. It feels very much like video editing software with photo editing tacked on. I can imagine that this would be much more intuitive for people who are already used to using DaVinci for video editing.

I can intuit from the interface that there are a lot of powerful editing opportunities here, but I feel lost in the software. I spent 15 minutes or so trying to figure out how to do simple masking, but I could not find any way to do it for photos.

Obviously this is just a beta and hopefully the workflow will be improved, but unless the photo editing features are extracted in to their own software package, I don't think it's enough yet to sway me from LR (and I want so desperately to be swayed)

It’s true that living anywhere near the Sydney metro is unaffordable though, even on a 180k salary.

However, this is relatively simple and cheap to do at home — especially using a technique called uncle Ben’s tek. As it happens, pre-packaged rice is the perfect sterile environment for mycelium growth.

Once successfully inoculated, it’s basically a matter of mixing the mycelium with substrate (wood chips or coir depending on the strain) in a container with a lid that allows minimal airflow (a plastic tub for example) and waiting.

The process is really quite simple, and I’ve harvested kilograms of mushrooms with an initial outlay of around $30. Once you have mushrooms, you have spores, and the recurring cost is only substrate (and uncle Ben’s bags or grains, jars, pressure cooker if you want to sterilise them yourself).

Imagine that many of your favourite dishes, those you grew up with, were suddenly unavailable to you because some ingredient no longer existed. If a new ingredient hit the market that was not quite the same but was a convincing substitute in taste and texture, would you consider it silly and avoid it?

I think what the OP was asking was more along the lines of partial hydration (where only parts of the DOM are hydrated by React/other framework) or no hydration (no JavaScript is loaded at all).

11ty does the latter: https://www.11ty.dev

The React team are working on partial hydration and announced it in December. Vercel did a write up on it here: https://vercel.com/blog/everything-about-react-server-compon...