All I ask is that things I uninstall stay uninstalled -- I got rid of OneDrive and Teams for a reason, stop adding that shit back! -- and that it doesn't shove Edge and Bing down my throat and decide that MS knows better than I do about what I want.

The authors do put in a great deal of effort, which is laudable, but it does make me wonder if the writing style and story telling is a deliberate choice, or if the authors simply watch anime more than anything else and thus the universe-saving power fantasy is the only thing they know how to write.

Personally I enjoy the more 'grounded' and mysterious stuff.

All the fancy frameworks are vibe coded, so why could they do better than something you do by yourself?

At most get playwright MCP in so the agent can see the rendered output

And it is absolute dogshit. And offensive to actual copilots.

More interestingly, they tend to set up in historically significant or listed buildings and as a result, preserve them. Not unusual to find a Spoons set up in an old 19th century bank or something.

I tried to use Vapor with Swift recently and struggled to get something working because the documentation looked comprehensive, but had a lot of gaps. I ended up throwing it out because I didn't have the time to dig through the source to understand how to do something, when I could use a mature framework in any other language instead.

The promise is there but I'm just not ready to invest. My youthful days of unbounded curiosity are coming to an end and these days I just want to get something done without much faff.

In Spain they try to create the head by dumping the beer in the glass, Guinness style, and letting it excessively foam up. So it's half flat and half full.

Perhaps mixing the CI with the CD made that worse because usually deployment and delivery has complexities of its own. Back in the day you'd probably use Jenkins for the delivery piece, and the E2E nightlies, and use something more lightweight for running your tests and linters.

For that part I feel like all you need, really, is to be able to run a suite of well structured shell scripts. Maybe if you're in git you follow its hooks convention to execute scripts in a directory named after the repo event or something. Forget about creating reusable 'actions' which depend on running untrusted code.

Provide some baked in utilities to help with reporting status, caching, saving junit files and what have you.

The only thing that remains is setting up a base image with all your tooling in it. Docker does that, and is probably the only bit where you'd have to accept relying on untrusted third parties, unless you can scan them and store your own cached version of it.

I make it sound simpler than it is but for some reason we accepted distributed YAML-based balls of mud for the system that is critical to deploying our code, that has unsupervised access to almost everything. And people are now hooking AI agents into it.

If they had vision they wouldn't be thrown out in a blog post.

Not a problem if you are a purist on linear history.

That said, the runtime is so resource heavy that, even though the heavy computational workload is given to AI on a remote cluster of servers, it will bring an old-ish laptop to a stall.

I do wonder though...highly interactive TUIs are not novel. I would wager that AI + the attention of frontend devs have created an environment where you can make fancy terminal UIs without concern for how terminals generally work and if Electron is sitting in the background, it proves it.

Opencode just works faster and I prefer the UX.

If someone put this app on CDs and gave them out at a supermarket, well, it worked for AOL 30 years back but not now.

May he enjoy an eternal debate about static and dynamic linking, strong types and duck types, tabs and spaces, vim and emacs, less and more, and Kickers and Rockport.

This is how it works. I can double down on bullshit and you can spin your wheels arguing against it.

That wasn't my original intention, I just wanted to say Thiel and Karp are assholes but you should see for yourself.

If I was to say "Musk is an asshole just look at what he did at the presidential inauguration in 2025" and you said "you'd make a better point by giving a source for that ominous reference", I would think you were acting in bad faith because of how widely reported Musk's nazi salutes were at the time, and I would feel completely fair in saying "go and find out for yourself, you have all of the necessary information to do so."

I would actually think that you were in a position to defend that person but weren't ready to express that yet. So here we are with Thiel and Karp where 5 minutes of using Google or something would bring up various reports of Karp's recent conference statements. And I could have done that myself originally but "source?" is quite an irksome reply to deal with.

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