A novel way of measuring poverty is something you should be really skeptical of!

>But an adult is and should be allowed to develop a nicotine addiction.

Says who? Addiction is never rational, that's what makes it addiction. Ffs.

I've never maintained software long-term so i could be wrong, but I interpret "code is cheap" to mean that you can have coding agents refactor or rewrite the project from scratch around the design correction. I don't think 'code is cheap' ever should be interpreted to mean ship hacky code.

I think using agents to prototype code and design will be a big thing. Have the agent write out what you want, come back with what works and what doesn't, write a new spec, toss out the old code and and have a fresh agent start again. Spec-driven development is the new hotness, but we know that the best spec is code, have the agent write the spec in code, rewrite the spec in natural language, then iterate.

Except you can write Kotlin and ktor outside of Jetbrain's IDEs.

Anthropic wants a world where they own your agent where it can't exist outside of the Claude desktop app or Claude Code.

There could exist a world where your agent isn't confined by the whims of a corporation.

> Anthropic wants a world where they own your agent where it can't exist outside of the Claude desktop app or Claude Code.

Please. I'm sure you're referring to their locking down of subscription keys, which of course they are going to have restrictions on. It's a subsidized subscription model.

You've always been able to create a platform account and use API keys with usage-based billing, and that will never go away. Charging enough to make a profit on inference isn't exactly rent-seeking or whatever language you want to use to villainize a company trying to make enough revenue to survive.

There was the video a little while back where LTT built a computer for Linus Torvalds and they put an Intel Arc card inside, so I'd imagine Linux support is at the very least, acceptable.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA

> they put an Intel Arc card inside

just add a little bit:

linus requested the card be intel as well.

one can upgrade and swap parts with a computer running an Intel GPU. Linux is very well supported compared to Mac hardware.

Such a wrong take.

The utility of a program like Excel, Obsidian, Notion, Unity, Jupyter, or Emacs far beyond the knowledge of knowing how to use the product.

All of these products are hammers with nails as far as your creativity will take you.

Its wild to have be on a website called Hacker News, talking about a product that can make a computer do seemingly anything, and insisting its a tool in search of a problem.

Same.

I’m sure there’s a more elegant way to say this, but OpenCode feels like an open source Claude Code, while pi feels like an open source coding agent.

Citizens United cough

A case where the opposition claimed that under a correct reading of the Constitution they had the authority to ban books.

I don't like lobbying and campaign finance either, but people shouldn't pretend these are simple or absurd arguments.

Pi.dev

Extensible coding agent written in typescript. It’s exactly what you (I’m projecting) want out of Claude Code if you’re okay investing time into building your harness or prompting an agent to build it.