There’s plenty of vegetarians due to ethical or cultural reasons that never acquired the taste for traditional plant based foods and are looking for a more substantial, protein heavy alternative.
Is it niche? Yes, but vegetarians were always niche.
While the late 2010s fixated on “protein” and “macros” - allowing products like Beyond or Soylent to shine.
Much of the health discourse around the 2020s has focused on quality of the ingredients and “processed foods”. So naturally Beyond is caught on the crossfire.
Is there a future where this stuff is proven to be better for you in the short and long term? I sure hope so. But there’s way too many unknowns right now and it’s expensive to boot.
Garbage in garbage out as they say. I will be the first to admit that Claude enables me to do certain things that I simply could not do before without investing a significant amount of time and energy.
At the same time, the amount of anti-patterns the LLM generates is higher than I am able to manage. No Claude.md and Skills.md have not fixed the issue.
Building a production grade system using Claude has been a fools errand for me. Whatever time/energy i save by not writing code - I end up paying back when I read code that I did not write and fixing anti-patterns left and right.
I rationalized by a bit - deflecting by saying this is AI's code not mine. But no - this is my code and it's bad.
> At the same time, the amount of anti-patterns the LLM generates is higher than I am able to manage. No Claude.md and Skills.md have not fixed the issue.
This is starting to drive me insane. I was working on a Rust cli that depends on docker and Opus decided to just… keep the cli going with a warning “Docker is not installed” before jumping into a pile of garbage code that looks like it was written by a lobotomized kangaroo because it tries to use an Option<Docker> everywhere instead of making sure its installed and quitting with an error if it isn’t.
What do I even write in a CLAUDE.md file? The behavior is so stupid I don’t even know how to prompt against it.
Yea, it's not not necessarily that the LLM itself is better at customer support than a human.
But i've found that it's just good enough that support and teams can handle addressing the systematic problems while the LLM deals with operational overhead.
I've been a JetBrains suscriber for a while, because at the time I saw that I preferred the UI experience over Jetbrains to VSCode. The IDE is well built, they have a better product/user experience team driving and coordinating those changes.
I cannot stand VSCode - even if I configure it to my liking I am unable to make it look or feel the way that makes me feel at home.
I cancelled my subscription a week ago. Yes I still dislike VSCode. But the same product Jetbrains has honed has struggled to integrate with AI agents as well.
I've played with some combination of picking vim/emacs with Claude CLI. I find navigating code a little bit slower since I have trouble building the muscle memory. I've always been big at using my mouse to jump around the file tree.
Configuring LSPs for these text editors and getting things to "just work" takes a little bit more time. I don't know what special sauce is in IntelliJ but for the supported languages, but it took a while for me to be okay with LSPs compared to IntelliJ.
But LLMs and Agents remove a need for a lot of the the advanced IDE features and I've found it better to return back to just treating everything like a text buffer again and using specialized tools to fill in the gaps that were missing with the loss of IntelliJ
i see a lot of go hatred on HN but coming from c i actually kind of love go when i need just enough abstracted away from me to focus on doing a thing efficiently and still end up with a well-enough performing binary. i have always been obsessed with the possibility of building something that doesn't need me to install runtimes on the target i want to run it, it's just something that makes me happy. very rarely do i need to go lower than what go provides and when i do i just.. dip into c where i earned a lot of my stripes over the years.
rust is cool. a lot of really cool software im finding these days is written in rust these days & i know im missing some kind of proverbial boat here. but rusts syntax breaks my brain and makes it eject completely. it's just enough to feel like it requires paradigm shifts for me, and while others are really good at hopping between many languages it's just a massive weakness of mine. i just cant quite figure out the ergonomics of rust so that it feels comfy, my brain seems to process everything through a c-lens and this is just a flaw of mine that makes me weak in software.
golang was started by some really notable brains who had lots of time in the game and a lot of well thought out philosophies of what could be done differently and why they should do it differently coming from c. there was almost a socio-economic reason for the creation of go - provide a lang that people could easily get going in and become marketable contributors that would help their career prospects. and i think it meets that mark, i was able to get my jr engineers having fun in golang in no time at all & that's panned out to be a huge capability we added to what our team can offer.
i like the objective of rue here. reviewing the specification it actually looks like something my brain doesn't have any qualms with. but i dont know what takes a language from a proposal by one guy and amplifies it into something thats widely used with a great ecosystem. other minds joining to contribute & flesh out standard libraries, foundations backing, lots of evangelism. lots of time. i won't write any of those possibilities off right now, hopefully if it does something right here there's a bright future for it. sometimes convincing people to try a new stack is like asking them to cede their windows operating system and try out linux or mac. we've watched a lot of languages come and go, we watch a lot of languages still try to punch thru their ceilings of general acceptance. unlike some i dont really have huge tribalistic convictions of winners in software, i like having options. i think it's pretty damn neat that folks are using their experiences with other languages to come up with strong-enough opinions of how a language should look and behave and then.. going out and building it.
Is it niche? Yes, but vegetarians were always niche.
While the late 2010s fixated on “protein” and “macros” - allowing products like Beyond or Soylent to shine.
Much of the health discourse around the 2020s has focused on quality of the ingredients and “processed foods”. So naturally Beyond is caught on the crossfire.
Is there a future where this stuff is proven to be better for you in the short and long term? I sure hope so. But there’s way too many unknowns right now and it’s expensive to boot.