People seem to fondly remember the Microsoft phones. If they made them now though, I can't really imagine what sort of Copilot-filled abomination they would be.
Code written by LLMs, website copy written by LLMs trashing competitors, Hacker News post written by LLMs, as if it were for LinkedIn. AI images everywhere. I dunno man, this is really sloppy.
We are firing on a lot of cylinders building out a platform across a browser extension, cloud dashboard, API, and now embeddable web agents. We are a team of two leveraging AI to 100x our output and build out all of these surfaces.
The underlying agentic performance though is undeniable.
Also like whats the point if something is AI generated, we do thorough review to ensure readibility, coherence and accuracy.
I don't agree that it's possible to output this much code with an LLM and also be sure that you know the codebase. Chances are very close to 100% that the entire stack is vibe coded and you rely on LLMs to fix bugs too
Didn't Anthropic say Claude Cowork was completely written by Claude Code and hence "vibe-coded"?
All that matters is that the deliverable agent works seamlessly without bugs/issues, which our web agent excels at even beating OpenAI Operator and Anthropic CUA in benchmarks!
It's basically hosted Git infrastructure as an API service, aimed at AI coding platforms rather than human developers.
Took me a really long time to understand this. The blob thing is cool but otherwise it's a really confusing website. The audio playing without me wanting it was not cool though.
Totally agree, it's the main reason I'll never recommend Linux to anyone, because you can't expect normal people to understand these things.
But it's kinda funny to me that you just said "I was going to run this code on my system, until I saw some other code in the same repo, and now I refuse to run it" :D It's all the same repo, you're willing to try part of the code, but not another part of it. Completely arbitrary.
If I want to try something like this out it's for fun more than anything, and I'm not really willing to invest much time trying to understand where to put the files etc.
> I was tempted to try it until I saw the curl | bash pipe, then no
I don't quite get that argument. It's the same as the old download installer from random website, double click to run that people have been doing for decades. It only skips the download step. And it's arguably better since at least you can review the contents. When building a Go program it will also happily download stuff from github but I've seen way less complaints about that. And to be fair it's also been an infection vector, from people installing things from shady places (or reputable places but with ill-intent like installing unwanted browser toolbars, DRM rootkits ...), but it's nothing new. Same advice applies, know what you're doing, use reputable sources.
I don't think the go module system is great but I am not sure if any programming gets it right and all suffer from many issues, but go has the go.mod and it is easy to see what dependencies are being used both direct and indirect and the user can filter and look though these packages and pin them until they have eyeballed updates to the git repo. I don't feel the most comfortable with it but the whole `curl | sh` is so terrible, no signing no, way of knowing about the integrity of the installer.
> What's a better alternative ?
I do not think the program really needs and installer but if one must then why not just have it under source control that way you get the benefits of git handling all the download bits and the install script being completely offline and just using cp or install commands.
you could tell the user to do this with a pithy command like `git --depth=1 clone $GITSITE/$REPO && $REPO/installer.sh && rm -R $REPO`
My big problem with it is uninstallation. If I ever want to remove the program, I have to 1. Hope that the author published an uninstall.sh, or 2. examine the install.sh to see where it spams all its files to and remove them manually. This seems like a major step backwards from package managers.
This is the only reasonable argument I've heard, but in reality I don't find uninstallers do their job anyway, i seldom have an uninstaller that doesn't leave empty folders behind, config files, user files...
You're blind-trusting someone to run stuff in the context of your terminal. Sure, it's similar to an installer but the author of the script can also manipulate the script at any time.
One day you run it, it's fine. The next day you run the same command on your machine, it installs malware. No way to tell without inspecting the script every time.
If you download an installer and it's fine, then you can run it again and it's still fine.
I cloned the repository just for the sound files. I may hook them to my terminal for long running jobs when I have some time to have some fun. Maybe a wrapper script.
I think it's fine for wheel controls to look different though. You're adjusting them when engaged with a task that requires constant concentration, so being able to easily identify the control you want and then use it makes sense.
I'd rather have this than all of them look the same. If you're driving in rain and need to swap to wet tyre mode, but have to spend time figuring out which generic knob does the thing, it's dangerous.
My car has every button and knob share the same design language but all subtly - or not so subtly - different so that the moment a control is touched there is zero ambiguity as to a) how to operate it and b) which one it is.
Appearance also comes into play as one doesn't necessarily have to _look straight at_ something to distinguish which is which or what the position is, merely it being somewhere in peripheral vision may very well give just enough clue so that you don't really have to take your eyes off of the road.
I hope that this causes enough outrage that Discord starts to lose its effective-monopoly for gamers and other folks. The platform has been getting more and more shitty over time and it isn't healthy for one product to have this much power.
I would guess that there needs to be a clear, cheap, easy to use alternative to discord in order for a large numbers of communities to move over. It probably has to be a single clear alternative as well – multiple will exacerbate the decision cost
Gilded used to exist but it's seemingly gone now. The power Discord has is quite insane, to the point where people haven't even seriously tried to compete it seems.
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