Ironically, Twitter's mechanism of auto-verifying anyone over 1M followers kind of achieves this.

LLMs don’t even understand fucking TypeScript, which you would expect a computer program to be able to understand. I can’t get it to write valid Drizzle code to save my life, it will confidently hallucinate method imports that don’t even exist.

fucking real, i've had claude code make obvious syntax errors in C# by declaring a tuple as `var (a, string b)` which i thought we were past.

I have also had a really hard time getting Claude and Gemini to create valid TypeScript in somewhat complex legacy projects. Sometimes it will do the most kludgey things to sort of make it work (things a human developer would never consider acceptable).

Right, LLMs don't understand TS, because they're not integrated with it. When they come across something they don't know, they just start hallucinating, and don't even verify if it's actually valid (because they can't)

LLMs can't, but agents can. They can read documentation into context, verify code, compile, use analysis tools, and run tests.

Hallucinations do occur, but they're becoming more rare (especially if you prompt to the strengths of the model and provide context) and tests catch them.

Of course it was user-hostile. I can't tell you how many times I would get linked to an AMP version of a page on desktop, with text spanning the entire width of the screen, and no way to get back to the 'normal' version.

That was the replacement mechanism after AMP, yes

AMP is dead

Thinking perhaps, but why not reasoning?

Google has the best model right now and, crucially, a profitable business to float it. I don't see how OpenAI possibly outlasts them at this.

What is the model? That the US government launders them money through “ad revenue” for unlawful surveillance?

OpenAI is probably already getting dark money for AI products of dubious worth.

Periodically I keep trying these coding models in Copilot and I have yet to have an experience where it produced working code with a pretty straightforward TypeScript codebase. Specifically, it cannot for the life of it produce working Drizzle code. It will hallucinate methods that don't exist despite throwing bright red type errors. Does it even check for TS errors?

Not sure about Copilot, but the Cursor agent runs both eslint and tsc by default and fixes the errors automatically. You can tell it to run tests too, and whatever other tools. I've had a good experience writing drizzle schemas with it.

Definitely not. Why would they let web devs render outside of the browser window? That's a recipe for disaster.

There needs to be some middle ground. I'd trade off just being able to set just the background color and font and keep these native-like features

The following works for me in Chrome, and doesn't prevent the menu from going outside of the viewport:

    select, option {
        background: red;
        font-family: 'comic sans ms';
    }

Yeah, it only works in Chrome

I think that you can compose arbitrary images that way using an image-like font (using various Unicode chars and assigning to each a small tile of the full image)

Actually I am now curious of how much detail/size/colours/animations you can fit in a single letter.

If that's all your changing, then why can't you make do with the system default?

But the article states they negotiated.

This was more a response to the comment I replied to, that cloud is always more expensive. And saying it more for everyone, not OP.

It's almost always less expensive at the start, which is super important for the early stages of a company (your capital costs are basically zero when choosing say AWS).

Then after you're established, it's still cheaper when considering opportunity costs (minor improvements in margin aren't usually the thing that will 10x a company's value, and adding headcount has a real cost).

But then your uniqueness as a company will come into play and there will be some outsized expense that seems obscene for the value you get. For the article writer, it was S3, for the OP, it's bandwidth. For me it's lambdas (and bizarrely, cloud watch alarms). That's when you need to have a hard look and negotiate. Sometimes the standard pricing model really doesn't consider how you're using a certain service, after all it's configured to optimize revenue in the general case. That doesn't mean the provider isn't going to be willing to take a much lower margin on that service if you explain why the pricing model is an issue for you.

Even starting out, with used/refurbed hardware you can put a lot of compute power into a colocation facility for very little money.