This comment feels like a troll.

I'm sure you are aware that:

- Most open source projects on the Internet are on Github. One could argue Github itself has taken a significant role in the growth of OSS in the last decade

- Using Discord is totally du jour for open source communities in 2025

- Reddit is still the biggest discussion forum on the Internet. Including discussion about open source

Not a troll.

The normal, uninitiated folk don’t know any better about their choices of technology & what that means for our private data & autonomy. We have seen this song & dance of getting locked into shitty platforms like Slack, but projects are repeating history when they know better. Why not just tell folks to use Google & Apple Photos or Facebook? If you can see the advantage of your FOSS project & how it protects users, the same should apply to your own tech choices. If you want to maintain broad appeal for some reason instead of actually introducing them to other FOSS tech that would also be good for user, it might be a bit hypocritical tho understandable to have these channels open, maybe even official—but to make these the only option? Not a gateway/bridge? No mirrors? No email to send patches? Not cool.

There are only two essential apps on my Mac. iTerm2, and a browser

When I quit my job and had to get my own laptop I bought a Chromebook. If your usecase is Terminal + Browser they're really very good.

I don't like that I'm supporting the Browser monopoly, but the battery life is supreme++(ARM versions at least), the Linux integration is great, I can run Android apps too(rarely though).

PWA's are integrated really well into ChromeOS so you won't be running one Electron instance per webapp. (My PWA's are Kagi Assistant, WhatsApp, SchildiChat(Element), Discord)

The same idea applies to self-driving cars though, no? That is an industry where the "AI revolution" will enrich only the existing incumbents, and there is a huge bar to entry.

Self-driving cars are not going to create generational wealth through invention like microprocessors did.

Latest release Apr 2025 introduced a plain text save file format, which plays nicer for source control. Great to see development is still active.

Ask an LLM to transcribe and give the overview and key points

If it can produce something you can read in 20 minutes, it means there was a lot of... 'fluff' isn't quite the right word, but material that could be removed without losing meaning.

This is a precursor to a future model which isn't simply a router.

From the system card:

"In the near future, we plan to integrate these capabilities into a single model."

Anyone who still takes predictive statements from leadership at AI companies as anything other than meaningless noise isn't even trying.

You don't get it. They couldn't do it yet because it would be too powerful and kill us all!

One reason for this release is surely to respond to their mess of product line-up naming.

How many people are going to understand (or remember) the difference between:

GPT-4o GPT-4.1 o3 o4 ....

Anthropic and Google have a much better named product for the market

One of the few Facebook groups I stayed in over time. It has a very British sense of self-deprecating humour. We're all amused by our mutual dullness.

Would you believe both Dull Men's Club groups were created by Americans?

No kidding.

The one with the registered-trademark symbol--a Nebraskan who moved to the UK.

The other one--a Texan.

Great post. I'm fairly new to the AI pair programming thing (I've been using Aider), but with 20 years of coding behind me I can see where things are going. You're dead right in the conclusion about now being the time to adopt this stuff as part of your flow -- if you haven't already.

And regarding the HN post getting buried for a while there...[1] Somewhat ironic that an article about using AI to help write code would get canned for using an AI to help write it :D

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214437

Thanks for this breakdown, I guess I'm largely in the window of points 3-6.

Any suggestion on where to start with point 1? (Also a SWE).