German authorities arrest people for running email services and then they are confused about why doesn't Germany have a Silicon-Valley-style tech industry.
This is a foothold business living entirely at Apple's discretion.
edit: more research
> Chert is in the Sendblue/Blooio lineage, which runs genuine Apple software on real Macs logged into real Apple IDs. They're almost certainly not doing "Beeper Plus again."
I wonder how many "behind the curve/not super modern" corporations were using Bun or Deno to begin with.
Part of me thinks it's a mild overreaction. It's not like people audit every line of kernel/driver/BIOS/EFI code before running Linux? As long as the tests pass and the performance doesn't regress and it's secure... why are people so mad that it was vibe coded? Is it because it was an irresponsible thing to do? Maybe?
To be pedantic, tests prove that the code passes the test suite, nothing else. They do not prove by themselves that the code is correct, secure, maintainable, efficient, etc. Those are much harder to measure and have a ton to do with organization, architecture, culture, shared knowledge of the maintainers, etc. All of which is lacking during and after this rewrite.
> As long as the tests pass and the performance doesn't regress...
AMD had 20+ million tests for their FPUs back in the day of Intel's FDIV bug and ACL2 found bugs in their implementations of floating point computation.
Agentic vibe coding is not an application of ACL2 theorem prover to anything. Agentic vibe coding is an opposite of it, it will make its way to pass the tests with any means necessary, be it patching the code, the tests, or expected results.
> it's secure
You can't say that before formal verification. Which is an opposite of what vibe coding is.
> As long as the tests pass and the performance doesn't regress and it's secure... why are people so mad that it was vibe coded?
Because the chances that they had a test suite that was actually comprehensive enough to guarantee correctness through this kind of refactor are approximately zero.
Normally we combine tests with careful "correctness by construction" design work and code review because we know that tests aren't sufficient.
It's actually more like 50 devs, each of them specialized in their own field, with 20+ years programming experience.
And even they make mistakes sometimes (see the recent TOCTOU exploit wave).
What vibecoders never get: it's about stability of software. Nobody will rely on your vibecoded project if even you yourself don't give a damn about any API stability or API contracts.
If you expect others to use vibecode assistants to use your software/library... then what was the reason in the first place to write it, if it's effectively not solving a problem? The whole points of dependencies and packages goes out of the window once the library maintainers start to use slopcoding practices.
I feel like I read this every day for years that Uber did this same "idiotic, losing" strategy (how it was pitched/discussed) and then one day we woke up and... without much fuss, boom, they were profitable seemingly overnight.
Well and uber cut the driver pay in half and doubled the price. They didn’t really find any efficiencies, robo drivers don’t exist yet. Also why I hardly touch them anymore.
All that tells me is they did find an efficiency. If they didn’t, their driver supply would have dropped. Unlike the taxi business, Uber/Lyft can tap into otherwise dormant supply of drivers who already own a car but aren’t willing to spend all 40-60 hours a week driving a taxi. With Uber/Lyft, they can become part-time drivers (they have flexibility and they can use an asset they already own anyway). Is it worse for the full time taxi drivers who used to have the supply artificially constrained in the old medallion system? Yes, but does it also benefit others who want to do this as a flexible job, zero skills required other than driving, no boss to deal with, no job interviews, etc. Yes!
As long as you have slaves/sharecroppers, driving the people at the top of the pyramid at Uber they’re profitable and Uber makes money as long as you don’t care about the workers and as long as you can get around all of the regulations that are put on traditional cab companies if there are any left on the road.
For me nothing says low class like the Porsche dealer saying we can call Uber for you to take you home ridiculous… and it was a low class experience dirty car small never again ha ha ha…
I've written over ~10k lines of Ansible playbooks and roles to fully automate setting up servers to deploy Docker based web apps, so I do like the concept of declaring the state of a system in configuration and then having that become a reality. I know NixOS is not directly comparable to Ansible but in general I think IaC is a good idea.
It was important to me that my dotfiles work on a number of systems so I avoided NixOS. For example, the command line version works on Arch, Debian and Ubuntu based distros along with WSL 2 support and macOS too. The desktop version works on Arch and Arch based distros.
Beyond that, I also use my dotfiles on 2 different Linux systems so I wanted a way to differentiate certain configs for certain things. I also have a company issued laptop running macOS where I want everything to work, but it's a managed device so I can't go hog wild with full system level management.
Beyond that, since I make video courses I wanted to make it easy for anyone to replicate my set up if they wanted but also make it super easy for them to personalize any part of the set up without forking my repo (but they can still fork it if they want).
All of the above was achievable with shell scripts and symlinks. I might be wrong since I didn't research it in depth but I'm not sure NixOS can handle all of the above use cases in an easy to configure manner.
To have your Nix-based setup reproducible across different OS (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, WSL2, MacOS, and NixOS), and have an extensible base config that can be customized to different situations, the go-to framework is home-manager (not NixOS, which only works on NixOS, or NixOS on WSL 2).
Nix offers a trade-off: near-perfect reproducibility in exchange for longer builds. Sometimes it's nice to just build a new .so for some library and let the rest of your binaries link to it without recompiling everything.
I'm not convinced about building whole systems around it. I can't remember the last time I ran into a reproducibility issue in practice, but I upgrade my system packages every day and that's definitely faster without Nix.
Migrated from archlinux to nixos. I don't think I can use anything else now...
I have a CI at home that builds my nixos config on a weekly basis with the latest flake. The artifacts are pushed to atticd. With this setup, when I actually need to update my machines, its almost instantaneous.
Care to share some scripts on how you do it? I'm in similar position, maintaining multiple desktops, laptops, servers, but i do not know how to share the build artifacts.
I have never been more stress-free than when I was running nixos as a daily driver. Had to return to macos as primary unfortunately but still use nix as much as possible.
I wish they would just rip the bandaid to stop everybody's entitled whining.
"We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."
This is my take too, although I'm not prepared for a max400 reality to replace the max200, but... I hate all of the whingeing. Piggies at the buffet line seem to be the loudest on this subject.
> "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We miscalculated/we were too generous/gave too much away for too little. It's a new technology, we are seeing a ton of demand, we are trying to run a business, hope you understand. If you don't want it, don't pay for it."
Anthropic's thing has always been that they are perceived as slightly ahead of the competition, if they 2X their pricing then the competition that used to be "slightly worse" suddenly becomes an absolute bargain and guts their user base.
can't tell if you're being facetious but yes, there's not enough cash in the world to double energy/silicon fab capacity in a year. Infrastructure takes time, hardware is hard, and you have to be willing to bet that the demand will be there 5 years from now to make an investment today.
Honestly, I wish they couldn’t subsidize with VC cash and such and offer below cost to begin with. Like I wish it were illegal. Basically this allows things like Uber, more or less putting taxis out of business and then being worse than what they replaced.
I’d like to see a lot more than entitled whining. I would like to see the fist of regulation slammed down on the back of these tech shenanigans where they know they’ll never be able to match the prices they’re starting with
I wish they would too. I’d respect them more for the transparency. I think everyone’s enshitiffication sensors have rightly been dialed up over the years. So without explanations for the regressions it just feels like another example
As an (ex) paying customer, I'm expecting some consistency. I used to be satisfied with the value I got, until the limits changed overnight, and I'd get a ten of my previous usage.
If Anthropic is allowed to alter the deal whenever, then I'd expect to be able to get my money back, pro-rata, no questions asked.
All those apply to OpenAI+Codex too, but they're far more generous with limits than Anthropic, and with granting fresh limits to apologize when they fuck up.
only works if the users are evenly distributed around the globe (which is likely more of less the case). if the user concentrates in on century, the token rate will be terrible.
I'm sorry this happened to you.
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