"unintended consequences and liability cascades from imperfect repair" - I would say this is not the greatest argument. If someone messes with the equipment outside official channel, loses equipment guarantee, so there is no liability on the producer side.

If some firmware is buggy and pose cybersecurity issues, hiding that will not help, as sooner or later someone will discover those bugs anyway (and will turn good old John Deere into B-class horror movie serial killer machine).

So I am not buying manufacturers arguments. If they were honest, they would said openly they want to earn money on overpriced service because CEO wants to earn more and stakeholders are after him.

org-mode would need an Obsidian-level polished application to become a thing. This is not that simple, I guess...

BTW obsidian borrowed a few ideas from org-mode, like clickable checkboxes, creating ad-hoc daily notes, etc.

Logseq is probably the closest we had, but it doesn’t quite reach the Obsidian polish and is now moving off of plain text files (somewhat sadly but understandably).

All of those considerations are driven by politics, not technical matters. What if in Germany next election will be won by AfD, in France by Lepenists (Jordan Bardella is going for the win in 2027 election). And next US election will be won by Democrats. What's then? Moving back to the USA?

Data sovereignty, avoiding monopolistic dark patterns by big American corporations and choosing local business partners that you can keep accountable is not political, it’s logical choice.

The previous election in the US was won by the American version of AfD.

We can see from this discussion that a small number of Americans moved to European services.

I've just look out of curiosity on Appsmith, as the author endorsed this tool as some admin panel builder. I had to double check the name, as right now this is, surprise, surprise, AI powered application builder...

I used to use Replit for educational purposes, to be able to create simple programs in any language and share them with others (teachers, students). That was really useful.

Now Replit is a frontend to some AI chat that is supposed to write software for me.

Is this jumping into AI bandwagon everywhere a new trend? Is this really needed? Is this really profitable?

Just about anyone who aspires to raise capital in the current market is making themselves out to be AI. Give it a couple of years and we'll be onto the next craze. By that time I should have migrated my application off the blockchain into the metaverse.

"The kings of medieval France were fascinated by the Mongols, who they saw as great empire builders."

Well, surprising, as they were supporting military actions against Mongols, plus medieval France was nothing like Mongols empire in terms of social live organization, way of fighting wars (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_and_Truce_of_God).

Later, in XV century, France started to turn into Mongols-like regime, but those weren't medieval times.

Real recognizes Real.

This is something I think Anthropic does not get. They want to be Microsoft of AI, make people their solution, so they will not to move to the other provided. Thing is, giving access to a text prompt is not something that you can monopolize easily. Even if you provide some stuff like skills, MCP server integration, that is not a big deal.

To get comparable results you need to run those models on at least prosumer hardware and it seems that two beef-up Mac Studios are the minimum. Which means that instead of buying this hardware you can purchase Claude, Codex and many other subscriptions for next 20 years.

Or you purchase a year's worth of almost unlimited MiniMax coding plan for a price you'd pay for 15 days of limited Claude usage.

And as a bonus, you can choose your harness. You don't have to suffer CC.

And if something better appears tomorrow, you switch your model, while still using your harness of choice.

And do you think Claude won't have released a few models by then, which will be way ahead of any open model? you are paying for SOTA.

Being 3-6 months behind SOTA may be less of a hindrance than not being able to use the tools you want, though.

I would pay any money for ability to block for my kids chosen channels on youtube. For some reason this is not possible and worthless crap keeps being promoted there.

Sign of time, this resembles time when we were moving ahead with processors speed. Two y.o. computer was obsolete (or, in those times, it required an upgrade, as it was possible...).

"In 2026, I don't use an IDE any more."

Just a question? What IDE feature is obsolete now? Ability to navigate the code? Integration with database, Docker, JIRA, Github (like having PR comments available, listed, etc), Git? Working with remote files? Building the project?

Yes, I can ask copilot to build my project and verify tests results, but it will eat a lot of tokens and added value is almost none.

> I can ask copilot to build my project and verify tests results, but [..] added value is almost none.

The added value is that it can iterate autonomously and finish tasks that it can't one-shot in its first code edit. Which is basically all tasks that I assign to Copilot.

The added value is that I get to review fully-baked PRs that meet some bar of quality. Just like I don't review human PRs if they don't pass CI.

Fully agree on IDEs, though. I absolutely still need an IDE to iterate on PRs, review them, and tweak them manually. I find VSCode+Copilot to be very good for this workflow. I'm not into vibe coding.