I’ve no idea what you’re using, but “I simply paste” isn’t giving me good results at all.
An hour ago Gemini decided it needed to scan my entire home folder to find the test file I asked it to look into. Sonnet will definitely try to install new dependencies, even though I’m doing SDD and have a clear AGENTS.md.
I’m always baffled at people’s magic results with LLMs. I’m impressed by the new tools, but lots of comments here would suggest my Gemini/Sonnet/Opus are much worse than yours.
> There’s never been a better time for customers to upgrade from a previous generation…
Of all the stupid things Apple has said lately, this is the most obtuse, pro-market-insulting nonsense. Intel-based Macs were knee-deep in issues Apple wasn’t fixing, and then along came the snappy and always-cool M1.
That was the best time for customers to upgrade. The new Silicon generations can be quite good, but they’re not worlds ahead in anything.
I’ll upgrade my M1 when Apple releases a macOS worthy of being used by its pro customers.
Isn’t the iPad already competing in these segments? Because unless reality has changed dramatically, this is still fairly pricey and a full-fledged laptop that doesn’t make for direct competition with Chromebooks.
Even in my home country of Portugal 700€ is a lot to throw at a ‘laptop’ that will be somewhat obsolete in 3–4 years, assuming Apple continues the trend of graphics-intense, memory hungry OS releases. An iPad seems like a better candidate for students or those on a budget.
I’m actually not sure who the Neo is for. Unless it’s a 3-model trick to price the Air upwards.
If anything, it's the opposite. With a proper harness you stop having to spend so much energy reviewing every little intermediate step, and can focus on the higher level.
I'm actually working on a project now where the biggest problem I need to solve is that the verifier that reviews the test harness is too strict.
I keep being told that a proper harness makes agents better, but no one has shown me exactly what is it that gives them such amazing results.
Yesterday Gemini burned 40 minutes trying to diagnose a failed Expo build and going into loops of changing the Podfile and re-running the build, when the issue was that Xcode needed updating (quick Google search for it).
But my comment on burnout stands. The lack of downtime and dynamic thinking modes (admin, planning, review, actual coding) seems like it would conspire to make you either cram out more work or disconnect from it. Both of these become dangerous, after a while.
(Information workers were productive 4–6 hours a day, and the economy did just fine.)
I think your view is lazy. The article explains some of the actual reasons, none of which have to do with laziness.
I’ve built for Electron and did a course on Swift for macOS apps. Not out of laziness, but I don’t think I’d ever build native for Macs. And the Windows folk have been complaining for a long time about the native APIs.
Now, native on mobile, that’s something else. I’ve been stuck on RN/Expo because that’s what the resources the business had allowed for, but native Kotlin is much more enjoyable (AFAIK). Swift… dunno, still icky.
"Looks could be good, but they also can be bad, and then you are stuck with platform-consistent, but generally bad UI (Liquid Glass ahem)."
Since the discussion was specifically about platform-consistency, odd that the author would decide that personal taste might take priority over platform-consistency.
"It changes too often, too: the app you made today will look out of place next year, when Apple decides to change look and feel yet again."
Seems to be arguing the exact opposite? If you adopt a native API for controls, windows, etc., your app will change next year to look completely in place (perhaps for better or worse according to the author).
Going DIY on UI and your app might still, in 2026, have brushed aluminum and "lickable" buttons.
I read it as criticism on how the native APIs don’t give you a sure-fire way of getting to a consistent native UI. Case in point is Apple’s own software, with some of its apps looking completely out of place despite being built on native UI.
I’m firmly anti-Tahoe and haven’t updated, and I’ve started to find Apple despicable. But…
Anyone saying they had no trouble migrating away is either lying or delusional.
Just off the top of my head: external accessory issues when Linux wakes up from sleep; trackpad quality; battery life; full-disk encryption is still spotty if you, for example, want to use ZFS; boot-level security can be a nightmare to setup (although Evil Maids aren’t a concern for me); systemd things that don’t work and don’t report they’re not working; inconsistent shortcuts for basic things.
Man, I like the ideals behind BSD and Linux, but we gotta stop pretending that basic UX stuff is done and fixed, when we know perfectly well that it’s been broken for a decade (running Linux servers or desktop-on-the-side since 2015).
I don't remember ever having external accessory issues, I don't use a track pad, battery life is fine (although I will admit macs seem to do better) and the ZFS one is just odd. Literally first time I hear this because while it sure would be nice... everyone uses btrfs or xfs or even ext4 with FDE without any problems for the last.. 15 years? Just one FS apparently has some issues?
Maybe your definition of broken is just as subjective as mine (aka I don't remember ever seeing window management so bad as OSX since fvwm)
ZFS got me into a weird race condition with systemd trying to unlock different filesystems that it couldn’t find because the root system itself wasn’t ready. ZFS-on-root is itself not really recommended, but you work around that.
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?
An hour ago Gemini decided it needed to scan my entire home folder to find the test file I asked it to look into. Sonnet will definitely try to install new dependencies, even though I’m doing SDD and have a clear AGENTS.md.
I’m always baffled at people’s magic results with LLMs. I’m impressed by the new tools, but lots of comments here would suggest my Gemini/Sonnet/Opus are much worse than yours.
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