> There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering.

Slop-oriented programming

The first two problems can be solved in a straightforward way with more custom exception types. For the "bigger problem", catch(...) can be used to prevent your code from crashing. If you really want to handle each case explicitly you could also use enums in combination with compiler flags that enable exhaustive checking.

I recommend trying to implement your own Forth in assembly. It's a great educational experience. However, I would not choose to use it in production. It's not a readable syntax. I doubt it will ever catch on for that reason.

I've been using KDE Connect without KDE for a while now. Works for me (tm)

How did you do that? I'm on XFCE and would love to use it, too.

I'm on Sway and Debian. Debian has a separate package for KDE Connect: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/kdeconnect

I've found that installing the kdeconnect package on the desktop and the app on the phone was all that was needed.

You just install it. It works everywhere.

Goodbye Android.

And then what?

More like: time for regulators to step up and do their work.

And then GNU/Linux phones. Sent from my Librem 5.

What makes you think they will? What makes you think regulators don't also want this?

This simply must happen. I don't think there is another sustainable solution to the network-effect problem.

You're not the only one. LLMs are hardly intelligent anyway.

I'm also not bullish on this. In the sense that I don't think LLMs are going to get 10x better, but they are useful for what they can do already.

If I see what Copilot suggests most of the time, I would be very uncomfortable using it for vibe coding though. I think it's going to be... entertaining watching this trend take off. I don't really fear I'm going to lose my job soon.

I'm skeptical that you can build a business on a calculator that's wrong 10% of the time when you're using it 24/7. You're gonna need a human who can do the math.

You don't understand, "open" stands for "open your wallet."

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