IMO we are reaching the point where AI models are simply a commodity. Opus (since ~4.6) is sufficient for everything I tried coding wise. I use it to write features (but I review and understand every line it spits out) and to review code.
For code review I also still review everything myself, but use Opus to catch stuff I missed and to judge if a PR is even ready for me to review.
After just updating Claude Code to the latest version I thought about picking Fable (the bigger model) instead of Opus.
But I have no reason to. Opus does everything I want it to do. It could do it faster - that would be an improvement. But for the normal stuff we reached the point where better models are not worth it IMO.
There still might be cases where you want to throw Fable at it.
> Opus (since ~4.6) is sufficient for everything I tried coding wise.
I don't know what that means. It seems like a lack of motivation or something. Like, if it's possible that in one day will be absolutely incredibly intelligent, surely you want to create
- Your own browser (maybe chrome - mv3 + reading list search etc.
- An emacs clone which has evil baked in, completely vim compatible + threaded elisp - that weird window sizing bug which only occurs on my laptop
- An extension which completely restyles amazon.com to make it usable
It just feels impossible to ever get that, but I wouldn't say "what we have is sufficient"
zot is a coding agent harness. not a data vault, not a pacemaker, and not a life-support device in any medical sense.
Ive been coding for almost 20 years, and for the past few with Go. Nobody would believe that a project of this scale or even a much smaller one could be pulled off, halfway stable, over a couple of days. Not even with a blueprint or two in hand. Thats why it matters, and its totally fair, to point out when something is largely vibe-coded. "Vibe slopped" is meant more as a joke. The essential parts of the code I actually understand. Some of them I modified and overhauled myself.
zot is a learning project not production logic with peoples sensible data or lives depending on it. ;-)
If it helps, I did totally get the joke and love when there are these bits of humanity and sarcasm, somehow lost in today's landscape, it used to be more frequent in the past. And I also get what you've described in the previous paragraph from just reading it. Might be that some people get it, some don't. Do what you feel best!
There exists a relevant, even German, quote:
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
― Otto von Bismarck (first chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890)
I would say that's kind of a conspiracy-y explanation. Big companies in Munich either have their campuses on the outskirts of the city so that people can commute and park without flooding the city or they have it in the heart of the city as that is seen as more prestigious.
Lots of companies have flip flopped based on this, and that's what happened in MS case.
Tbh not saying MS didn't play dirty in general, but not necessarily in this.
> I hope our French friends can learn from this initiative during the adoption phase.
The apps are available now, so reasons to be optimistic.
When LiMux and similar efforts happened around 2004 most business applications were Windows only. Even the ones that purported to be web used windows only technology and required IE and Windows.
Now with years of business budget controlling types using their Macs and smart phones and wanting access to the their apps the majority - even MS's stuff - can be run well in a browser on almost any OS.
> but it seems to be rolled back to Windows again.
Apparently it was a decision by mayor Dieter Reiter after excessive lobbying by Microsoft. At roughly the same time, Microsoft moved their German headquarter back to Munich. What a coincidence...
There were and are initiatives. Of course, they were and are ridiculed all the time. Who can't recall LiMuX or check out ZenDIS (Zentrum für Digitale Souveränität in der öffentlichen Verwaltung). Read up on the current migration away from MS Office in Schleswig-Holstein.
Why share something that anyone can just “prompt into existence”?
Architecture wise and also just from a code quality perspective I have yet to encounter AI generated code that passes my quality bar.
Vibe coding is great for a PoC but we usually do a full rewrite until it’s production ready.
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Might be a hot take, but I don’t think people who can’t code should ship or publish code. They should learn to do it and AI can be a resource on the way.. but you should understand the code you “produce”. In the end it’s yours, not the AIs code.
For code review I also still review everything myself, but use Opus to catch stuff I missed and to judge if a PR is even ready for me to review.
After just updating Claude Code to the latest version I thought about picking Fable (the bigger model) instead of Opus.
But I have no reason to. Opus does everything I want it to do. It could do it faster - that would be an improvement. But for the normal stuff we reached the point where better models are not worth it IMO.
There still might be cases where you want to throw Fable at it.