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@SebAaltonen @lakshyalark Can you confirm you have seen all the other Ferrari cars, because about half of them are hideous to me with the Luce right in the middle.

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@thekitze Just use one platform version as the spec for the other, better than markdown.

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@edzitron It’s just what happens when you give engineers a strong incentive to game a stupid system.

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@KiranTimsina @code It’s the least buggy version of vscode.

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@imnonplussed @valigo @gutsy_gambit I think if you are making something that already exists in the training data that no one wants you can get such a speedup. But I agree. It's a very immature understanding of productivity.

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@polyMatto @ptr_to_joel It's probably quite large...

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@dduxAdventure @zack_overflow 5% of the time I'm 10x more productive with AI

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@dreamsofcode_io @adibhanna Damn. Removing that line is one way to fix a test. This notion of working at a "higher level" seems a bit off when a needle in a haystack can cause so much trouble.

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@dreamsofcode_io @adibhanna The other day I asked Claude and it wrote something like this:

function invoke<T extends any[], R>(fn: (...args: T) => R, ...args: T): R {
return fn(...args);
}

And proceeded to wrap lots of ordinary function calls with it. It can be really terrible in some codebases.

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@adibhanna @dreamsofcode_io Interesting. I expect things to get harder with AI, not easier, because the goal posts shift.

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@ZH1YGD @jarredsumner There's a reason rewrite in rust is said a lot. It's because writing the first version in Rust is quite hard and can slow you down, but Rust works quite well when things are mature.

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@rfleury I have used LLMs on some projects, there isn't really anything to disagree with here.

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@GregorySchier @yacineMTB How do you switch between apps?

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@GregorySchier @yacineMTB Yep, I think tiling combines well with multiple desktops. No need for tiny windows. If that doesn’t click for you, and you like moving and resizing windows with a mouse, tiling wm isn’t for you.

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@GregorySchier @yacineMTB You don’t necessarily put things side by side. Use multiple desktops and go straight to the desktop that has the app you want. Eg. code editor on 2, hit a key to go to it instantly instead of alt tabbing. The splitting is often for a quick task. Much less mouse pain for me.

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@potetm Maybe it should be opt-in rather than the default.

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@LukeParkerDev I tried to convert an app to use tauri, but the performance was much worse than electron, particularly on Linux. It’s the web view, tauri has no control over it. The hype must have come from people who don’t measure or understand the basics of both projects.

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@paytondev It’s rough right now. They are trying to do something very difficult and risky for a small team. Give it a year or 2 and it might get good.

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@_joshburgess @NathanFlurry Yes, but some type systems make it harder to compose pieces together. Go doesn’t have function colouring for example, but rust and typescript do.

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@WinstonBrown_ @brendonovich You can run a Rust backend in an Electron app (Like 1password does). Tauri really has no control over the parts that matter, which is the webview. Maybe one day with Servo..