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Very easy to setup and way more readable than the equivalent React code.
This is the worst part of fully AI-generated code and automated reviews. It's so unnatural, and slightly anti-social, yet I can't figure out what the solution is when you have to ship features at the pace expected the average SWE nowadays.
I don't think so. AI is broad, and he's against low quality output enabled by people taking shortcuts using AI.
Using AI doesn't make your output worse, that's almost entirely down to lazyness and a lack of skill. Or people are just choosing to spend less time on the same piece of work instead of doing additional iteration and experimentation (which AI makes a lot more doable).
Also brightness degradation on especially a tandem oled is unlikely within its reasonable lifespan. Tandem oleds are the literal peak of display technology for this size of panel. Image quality wise, there's no downside.
Black is 100% the least appealing.
The parent comment was saying "better sound" as one of the upgrades you get for the $400, which is a comparison to the currently available macbook pros.
It's a nonissue when you look at the state of macOS attention to detail nowadays, regardless of which side of the fence you're on.
Always enjoyed touchscreens on my laptops. Nice thing is, you can just ignore it when you don't want it. It doesn't affect battery life, or thinness, or brightness, or clarity provided the implementation is good; it's just a bonus input method. I'll never say no to a laptop offering a touch option.
How on god's green earth is this worth $2900?
IMO, this is a macbook pro but ~200g lighter and with an improved screen that's finally oled. Absolutely NOT worth 2900. An M6 mbp specced to 24GB is $700 cheaper directly on their site. Yeah it's an M6 and not an M5 pro, but I guarantee the performance difference won't matter 99.9% of the time.
$2900 is just ridiculous. So many better options with this budget.
Nowadays, it's also a more fun community. I end up learning things about terminal rendering I never would've otherwise just by reading ghostty-related blogs.
I don't mind if my English isn't entirely idiomatic and all my sentence constuctions aren't "by the book" correct. I want to write, and I want anyone reading my writing to know that it's the product of thinking and editing that's unique to me.
The magic trackpad is nice, but really not required.
Too many great options today to settle that overpriced undersized thing.
I'll just stick to mostly Sol on low/medium/high and start experimenting with Terra tomorrow onward to see what it does noticeably better than Luna/Deepseek flash.
Any pareto frontier model, especially from the leading labs is guarnateed to be good enough for whatever your expectations are at this point. A quick few day test should be enough for anyone to make their own conclusions.
Super happy the site.
Terra and Luna are dirt cheap and good enough for 50% (or more) of the typical junior dev's workload, and great for routine work. Sol and Astra have so much written about them at this point that it should be obvious what those are good at. The large/gigantic models for things that need full intelligence and slightly more branching thinking.
Sure Sol 6.1 on low/medium can be considered "cheap" considering its abilities, but it's clearly not meant for the same type of tasks as Luna. You just grow an intuition for when something is solvable with a Luna-sized model. I'm guessing Terra is good for the tasks that you'd typically use Sol 6.1-low for, or for Luna type tasks (or other not-novel problem) where you want to reduce the risks of suboptimal decision making. It's exactly what I'd go with for feature additions where the correct solution is already mostly designed/specced-out.
I'd love to experiment with this myself.
For a programming language? It's subpar and you know it.
See this for a language docs site by a small-ish team, but a significant effort was put into making it nice to read: https://tour.gleam.run/everything/
I'm not talking about upper luxury products. I'm talking about good, maintainable business code or just something as basic as a polished, full-featured dashboard that contains no "silly" bugs.
That kind of thing is still not very cheap in the context an average person's typical expenses.
The chatGPT webapp is as example of something built to a budget (despite having a team with access to cutting edge AI); and it just doesn't feel good to use or to navigate around. Contrast that to Twitter's front-end. That took millions of dollars in designer/SWE salary to build and you can just tell how much better it is than the average social media platform, or any new webapp by a less experienced team.
Human in the loop prompting/steering/testing time is also not free, even if a $20 claude/chatgpt sub can theoretically build anything to an acceptable level. 2 days worth of a humans's time is still ~100 bucks. Very few harnesses can run fully autonomously and still end up with usable software unless you're someone who specializes in working with these things.
Production level code is really not as cheap as you imagine it to be.
There's so many youtube channels getting hundreds of thousands of views on EVERY new major model release just doing essentially zero effort one-shots, and people lap it up as if building things that already exist is somehow the best their imagination allows for.
I do love being able to test a model for 3+ weeks (>1 month is too long personally for my budget) and actually learning how to build scalable software and actually develop your "engineering" skills.
Is having a duplex model constantly cutting in with uninteresting quips something people are looking for?