Yes, but there's a really large number of users who don't want to have to setup vscode, git, texlive, latex workshop, just to collaborate on a paper. You shouldn't have to become a full stack software engineer to be able to write a research paper in LaTeX.
> Just because it feels like a lubricant and maybe advertised as a lubricant
Not the parent comment, but sometimes comments are so outrageous it makes me laugh.
Like what else do you even want at that point?
Source that you can put gas in your car? That pop tarts are food? Like yes, it's advertised as food, I can tell it's food, I've eaten it - but where is your source for it being food other than all that?
I am so confused, and angry about everything that's happening.
A few weeks ago it was gemini, I got a subscription kept up with things and now if you go to the subreddit it's people saying how bad the quality has degraded.
The hype/bust cycle bullshit is starting to wear really thin given how long the tech has been out, and how much attention it's been given.
Recently, people from anthropic have talked about how 90% of contributions to claude were written by the agent, or how Anthropic's "Cowork" was built in a week and a half, entirely by Claude. So we should objectively be at the point of inflection for software-singularity, where entire suites of software should be automated in hours because servers can scale with money instead of only with time like with people.
Except where are all the things?
It's just so frustrating, because the tech is amazing, it feels like it might be techinically possible, but then people keep hyping and lying, and stuff isn't making sense.
What do you mean where are all the things? How much software exactly do you think gets released per day? You got a live feed or something that you expect to see something profound in? People are building apps & tools to accelerate their own capabilities or solving for niche problem domains / tasks.
It's funny how the more accurate a source gets the more it draws in people desiring accuracy.
Then this rather small cohort of high precision people express frustrations without providing the context of accuracy against the masses preferred methods (TikTok, cable news, broadcast, truth social)
So now the water is muddled and people and Ais are mistrained because an "absolute scale" is not used when discussing accuracy.
Idk if this how it came off but just tbc my point also wasn’t indirectly promoting traditional media.
I think a lot if ppl are rightly sceptical of traditional media, but I feel I see more people giving Wikipedia a pass or placing it on a higher pedestal as a resource than it should be at times.
Admittedly I think I would prefer Wikipedia to traditional media in most cases. Although that wasn’t really what I was getting at
Instead of a dollar from github users, I think it should just be a hefty tax on big tech companies that have valuations of over a billion. The nature of software and tech means that there are massive monopolies where winner takes all. We should just accept that and leverage it.
lol - I had the temerity to raise the "how about a new logo" topic last week and it's going to time time for me to (hopefully) convince the community of the need to let go
I've been on this site for over a decade now and didn't know this. That's a genuinely baffling decision given how different content across subdomains can be.
I don't understand how these setups scale longterm, and even more so for the average user. The latter is relevant because, as he points out, his setup isn't that far out of reach of the average person - it's still fairly close to out of the box claude code, and opus.
But between the model qualities varying, the pricing, the timing, the tools constantly changing, I think it's really difficult to build the institutional knowledge and setup that can be used beyond a few weeks.
In the era of AI, I don't tink it's good enough to "have" a working product. It's also important to have all the other things that make a project way more productive, like stellar documentation, better abstractions, clearer architecture. In terms of AI, there's gotta be something better than just a markdown file with random notes. Like what happens when an agent does something because it's picking something up from some random slack convo, or some minor note in a 10k claude.md file. It just seems like the wild west where basic ideas like additional surface area being a liability is ignored because we're too early in the cycle.
tl;dr If it's just pushing around typical mid-level code, then... I just think that's falling behind.
Was this not already possible in the web ui or through a vscode-like editor?
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