However where i think you have a point is that it tends to run tests quite casually where a reviewer would have been enough to catch mistakes.

IMHO, the real problem is the 5min cache way too small. They should up it to 1 hour.

Buid alone takes 4 minutes. Test suite heavily parallelized runs in about 2 to 3 minutes, infrastructure dependencies fully containerized using podman, no external API call.

And this is without mentioning the 5000 frontend tests (angular), including Playwright end-to-end tests wired to the backend (about 3 to 4 minutes run without the e2e tests).

And this is running on a dev machine with 64gb of RAM and an NVMe disk.

Some systems are just massive, and even if you run focused tests, it's easy for a change to have a large blast at least requiring a large rebuild, and at times to rerun a larger set of tests.

In my opinion sunsetting JetBrains Space was a major strategic mistake. It would have given them the moat they currently crave for to compete in the AI space, by enabling cool AI powered features (codex like sandboxes connected to their ides etc...).

All their AI products currently feel like desparate shots in the dark, while Jetbrains Space would have been a natural home, delivering strong value and differentiation.

Once Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode matured and discredited Junie, the next thing i looked for was a code review and CI/CD environment that was as seamlessly integrated to my IDE as possible. I was baffled to discover that JetBrains had just that but decided to sunset it in the midst of the AI war. Absolutely baffling....

The fact is, most people aren't builders and never will be. Building software is about formalizing and automating processes, and 95% of folks aren't interested in putting even the most basic effort into improving their business by approching it at a strategic level. Too focused on keeping the lights on and/or more interested in field operations.

For another example look at the many businesses using @gmail addresses to run their business while Google Workplace has streamlined custom domains for a while.

So in practice, ChatGPT Sites will mainly enable software agencies to build websites and offload maintenance to the customer : just manage it from your ChatGPT account. The equivalent of Bring your own cloud for Mom and Pop businesses, and other small companies. Not even sure ChatGPT Sites will create meaningful downward pressure on agency rates.

Lesson learned the hard way.

Except maybe that the model often believes that he is running out of context, and needs to rush so i occasionally need to jump in to tell it that it still has plenty of room left.

But this does not degrade the quality of my overall experience in a meaningful way.

This is definitely not about dealing with the frontier of AI. I wasn't part of the nerfing chord, but Astra changed my mind. Quality got me to upgrade from Pro x5 to Pro x20 on launch day. A couple of days later was dumb af, horrendous code quality etc...

Something fishy, or at least unethical is going on. Not sure it impacts API users though.

Deepseek 4.1 ranks very low in this benchmark but it has proven so capable that after being simultaneously on Max x20 and Pro x20 subscriptions, i've transitioned to using DS 4.1 as a daily driver and am very satisfied.

My point is, i think their overall ranking makes sense, matches my experience with out of the box capabilities for vague and underspecified tasks. But seeing a model rank low in their ranking does not mean that the model is incapable. Having skills and guidelines has a lot of influence on what you get out of a model.

Not criticizing because i can see that many people love Apple products precisely for this reason. Apparently this makes the UX friendly and intuitive. But it didn't click for me.

So it is very unlikely that a neighbor will have the audacity to attack them, and even if this happens, i'd expect the war to be over rapidly. Just like if Canada or Mexico tried to attack the US.

As a Max x20 and Pro x20 subscriber, can tell you that it doesn't matter since they continually move the baseline of token use So in practice you feel that you're continually getting less from your subscription.

While it never happened to me in the past, i reached my weekly limit within 3 days using Opus 5. And the Open AI weekly limit essentially is a Claude Max x20 5-hour limit. Not even talking about the baseline in intelligence : on release day Astra was so good that it lead me to move to Pro x20. Now it's dumb af and token use is insane.

Deepseek 4.1 Flash has been a lifeboat for me, finally able to work without being constrained/distracted by limits and with what is in my view even better intelligence than Opus 5 for a fraction of the costs. DS is not messing up my brain with load-bearing pseudo jargon in every sentence. It respects coding guidelines, and completes even the most complex tasks most of the time in one shot.

DS 4.1 had been able to add complex features to my repo without breaking a sweat (330k lines of F# + 4M circa lines of an Angular frontend). Writes very idiomatic F# and respects our guidelines and style perfectly. Just completed an extensive UI/UX research and implementation work.

I am ditching both x20 subs and will only keep a Pro x5 because wife does a lot of design work and needs solid image generation capabilities.

I am just saying that in my opinion, society would be even better off if this industry wasn't controlled by a cartel and i pointed 2 examples of how.

One difference between this and turbines, is that payment networks are sitting at the heart of the economy of countless countries. Turbines have a very different risk profile, much more modest and localized.

Russia was for example cut off from high-tech maintenance contracts but has been able to deal with it by manufacturing their own replacement part + there are maintenance cycles and spare parts so any disruption in service is not immediate unlike payments.

The problem is that like all cartels, they hold progress back. Things could be even more efficient than the current state of affairs. For example we could have open standards with thousands of local players, much faster settlement times etc...

There are also aspects such as the fact that due to this concentration of power, the whole world is subject to US sanctions, such that a EU citizen sanctioned by the US is effectively cut off from civilization.

And nowadays, with the erosion of the social safety net pushed by the French government, the gap is even more narrow. There definitely are huge inequalities there, US are far from being the heartless place EU politicians like to depict.

Can't give you medical advice, just a benchmark tip: a short water fast is 3-5 days, the first 2 days being the most difficult ones.

My personal experience is that mind/spirit plays a major role. If i'm down mentally, i'll break my fast prematurely. If you think about it, the only difference between fasting and starving are your motives and mindset. So this is a major item, that people approching fasting from a purely medical angle often fail to appreciate.

Make sure you are at peace, and embracing a mindset of healing, spiritual renewal. Have something to do. For example, as a Christian, this is a time where I'll read the Bible, sing/workship more frequently throughout the day, and of course rest. You can do something equivalent independently from your religion.

I don't know if this mental angle can help with your headaches, but consider giving it some though in case this can help. That's all i can think of i'm afraid. Just my 2 cents.

I've reached a point in my career where i can essentially call the shots as far as engineering and even product direction is concerned.

But recently had to do some consulting as an IC due to circumstances (worst case scenario deal closing delay), and i can tell you that there are places where non-technical people make tech decisions without consulting anyone. Also in my already quite distant qconsultant past (wow, time flies) while it has always been common for me to sort out requirements, and help with business analysis to align them with engineering, even when you dismiss flying unicorns, the class of core requirement evolutions that can make you regret choosing a tech stack is still very large. I've seen a couple of folks fired literally due to this.

Even now that i call the shots and sell products rather than time, the roadmap uncertainty is still high (largely driven by the need to make products user-friendly enough based on feedback), so i default to .NET + angular as it keeps my game open.

B2B2C at the cross-roads of ecommerce, fintech, blockchains. So you need to deal with vendor integration requirements while making the integration user-friendly from a UX perspective + and keeping your own core UX premium, especially for the B2C segment, and being competitive. Requirements change fast, especially at the beginning, so you don't want your engineering to constrain you or make things more difficult than necessary.

> Different tools for different jobs. (Me? I honestly love React, just a more minimal stack. Zustand and TanStack and Vite. No Redux or Next.JS)

My concern with is that i build line of business applications for a living, and literally, every project i work on ends up growing in scope such that even the simplest ones, reach a point where the customer asks for items that are just much simpler to do with a front-end framework. And these are often cross cutting concerns, such that it is not as easy as simply adding some js to one page.

Example: "i want to be able to reorder all the columns of all the tables of the website, and hide some columns, with my preferences remembered for each table". Customers pull that kind of thing off their hat every time, such that even "basic websites" can move out of the trivial territory any time. And this is just the most trivial example i can think of.

I want the tech stacks i use to be future proof, as in not having to rewrite everything when requirements become more complex (as it is also typically a time where we aren't given much time budget, as they need it for yesterday).

For something for which i fully control the roadmap, i may consider htmx (but even then, even my own products grow in ambition rapidly) however for customer projects i find this choice way too risky.

I need to be able to capitalize on the tech infrastructure i've built as requirements get complex, both due to customer time constraints and because this is where we get some of the highest profit margin from our work. Having to rework most of what i've done every time a complex requirement comes up, would be inefficient with this regard.

To me it's a case of knowing your tools in depth, to make meet most requirements (including from a performance perspective). Maybe erlang or go would have been more suited for a project from a philosophical perspective but since i specialize in .NET + angular, unless there is hard blocker, i'll use this tech stack, and everything is fine from the perspective of the customer. But i gain that the project is future proof and i won't need to reengineer it when it moves of its initial sweetpot.

This is not a criticism but I suspect that the people enjoying HTMX are either people preferring old-school server-side rendering or react users.

Just sharing my experience, because HTMX is the absolute darling of hacker news.

Since i mainly develop real SPA, i found that is more complex than just using typscrpit if you build something non-trivial as managing state on the server is not fun at all.

In my opinion if you are happy using angular, you'll find that HTMX is a step backward in terms for dev experience. Can't speak about react, but since it is not a battery included stack unlike Angular, i can understand why many people find they'd be better off moving things server-side instead of messing around with 15 third-party libraries. My 2 cents