I believe they could “afford” it, given their staggering valuation. And, by being the ones with sense, they might even attract the kind of customer that wants to do business with companies with principles! The audacity, eh?

Here’s the problem I have with your take (even if I agree): LinkedIn has a product to sell. You’re not supposed to be the product, because companies pay to advertise job postings, they sell career tools, sales tools, etc.

At what point is that not enough for them to stop doing data brokerage or sharing?

“I handed over a lot of personal information to my bank, so every website wanting the same level of access is nothing special to me.”

No point is, it is the same company handling data with exactly the same process.

They do it for all MSFT related stuff I guess.

Sure, but a subsidiary has their own Terms, Privacy Policy, list of sub-processors, etc.

It’s half the price for now, let them gain market traction and ser the price come up. GCP isn’t exactly affordable.

My experience with Antigravity was that 3 Pro can reason itself out of Gemini’s typical loops, but won’t actually achieve it (it gets stuck).

3 Flash usually doesn't get into any loops, but then again, it’s also not really following prompts properly. I’ve tried all manner of harnesses around what it shouldn’t do, but it often ignores some instructions. It also doesn’t follow design specs at all, it will output React code that is 70% like what it was asked to do.

My experience with Stitch is the same. Gemini has nice free-use tiers, but it wastes a lot of my time with reprompting it.

I don't use Stitch it doesn't have the context of my codebase, I just tell Gemini to make the UI directly and its able to do it. The only time it failed is when my prompt and goal was bad. I told it to swap expo-audio with react-native-track-player and it was able to do it in one-shot. Implement Revenue Cat and it did it in one shot. I do task by task like all the other agent tools recommended. The harness I made doesn't install packages, it just provides code. I don't use Anitgravity or any Electron-based coding agent, mine has a Rust core and different prompt engineering, not sure why it works so well but it does.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMrvh56F0M Website: https://slidebits.com/isogen

I need to implement a better free trial plan, it's reached enough maturity where its my only and primary way I write code, I also use web chats to help me craft prompts. Reach out to test. https://slidebits.com/support

‘Technology is neutral’ is one of the most cynical excuses, as it permits developers to remain in a child-like fantasyland where consequences do not exist, and shifts the blame to… nowhere I guess, since we also don’t like regulation or moral takes on what gets built.

I’ve reported a few things, none of it got fixed or acknowledged. Providing video evidence too!

Oh, thank god, it had been a week since we last saw a post about AI killing something. It’s subscriptions this time, all users will be vibe coding apps on their spare time.

The prolific inventor’s dilemma. But to be fair developers have been making whatever they want since the beginning. Sometimes there doesn’t have to be a ‘why?’.

0% interest to defend Big Don’t Be Evil, but success rates for most businesses, new or existing, are low. Succeeding at 10% of their ventures isn’t that bad, considering they add up to the trillions of dollars of valuation for big G.