It’s not the same, per se, but it’s just … mature. It’s mature because it’s a nice mix of « it’s old and boring » + they took inspiration from everything that worked on macOS and Windows and stole it. They never removed features for any bullshit marketing reasons.

It’s not perfect : there are things that I like better on macOS (but they tend to be very rare tbh) or even Gnome or whatever I’m trying nowadays (it’s Niri!)… but I do think KDE is the best overall when it comes to respecting its user, giving him nice and clean defaults while giving them enough options to work however they like to.

And yes, that includes virtual desktops arranged in a custom grid. It’s not the default but the option is right there waiting for you to enable it if you want it.

OTOH, switching users on Gnome or KDE login managers is flawless.

Would Opus 10 release tomorrow and be nearly AGI, I still would still use it like 4.7 because on daily use, I am the limit (also the harness).

So as a customer paying for tokens, I’m probably going to search for better cost rather than more intelligence.

Honestly, there is nothing in my head that Claude cannot handle. Maybe it can be more this or that but I can already barely exploit Opus 4.7.

And I'm using DeepSeek 4 Pro for my personal use and while it's a little behind, it's not that far.

I think the situation can be very dangerous for US AI companies because if current models are already capable of doing mostly anything, nobodoy will want to get to the next model, even if it's 10x better. OTOH, open source models like DeepSeek are doing mostly the same work for 1/10 of the price.

Also the more I play with Pi, the more I think LLMs are already not kept back by their own capabilities but by the lack of agency we allow them to have. There is more value today in a capable harness for current LLMs than in a better LLM.

So I use Deepseek Pro on the $20 Ollama Cloud plan and it’s really not that far behind and I never triggered the plan’s limits.

It’s like 10-15% less powerful but costs 10 times less.

Totally worth it. I prefer Opus because my employer pays for it but I would personally never pay 10 times more for it.

Most courts will not convict your only for your actions but for the intention that fulfilled your actions. That's also why in most countries, murder and attempted murder will have the same consequences.

So you can hide your fees however you want, the court will interpret your intentions, and you'll have a hard time justifying your $250 processing fee for reselling a concert ticket.

The greatest force of Wero is that, being from a bank consortium and not "another app", you can send money to people that don't even know the system exists as long as you have their phone number because the money will go straight to the bank account registered with this phone number.

You don't need to register to the service to receive money so basically anyone holding an account in a compatible bank can receive funds instantly. Which means, as the person sending the money, you don't have to tell your friends to install it.

But we fight for our working rights, that’s not a cliché (even if we are losing, tbh)

If the small (and I'd even say, sometimes imperceptible) difference between Opus & DeepSeek v4 Pro is such a disadvantage for your startup, it's that your startup have an issue, not the LLM.

At the end of the day, your startup is there to solve real problems and even before the LLMs, being fast at coding things have never been such a huge competitive advantage compared to marketing, sales, customer support, product vision ...

At the end of the day, as a consumer, you still pay per token (or per something) to your provider, except you can chose from multiple providers with your own criteria. If you want to use DeepSeek v4 hosted in Europe, it's possible.

[0]: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-v4-pro

Compared to most languages, including Java, C# will have a hard time letting you compile incoherent code.

You barely need any dependencies other than aspnetcore and efcore for most applications and your AI knows them well.

It’s easy to do TDD with it so it’s easy to keep your IA from hallucinating.

Still, we all do it with Google. (I don't do it anymore but i did it for mostly two decades so I include myself)

I mean, which one of the "free high-quality web apps from Google" is free high quality ?

I'm forced to use Google Workspace for work and that's an incredible pain. GMail is messy. Google Meet have an horrible UI, Google Drive is messy++, Google Chat is unusable, Google Search is unusable. The only product that is still good at google is maybe Google Maps.

The good thing about the absence of style is that the book doesn't feel dated and could have been wrote yesterday.

I'd say they have reliability issues but for the price it's worth it.

I like that usage isn't measured per token but per computation time, which means that you get more usage when models become more efficient.