Or the company just changes the definition of success, so that the metrics (that used to be bad last quarter) are suddenly good

Or just let them use whatever they want…

I mentioned this in my reply, but I am the one that’s expected to fix the computers when they break.

If I am going to be playing free IT duty, I do not think it is unreasonable for me to have a say in what the computer runs.

Iterating on LLM agents involves testing on production(-like) data. The most accurate way to see whether your agent is performing well is to see it working on production.

You want to see the best results you can get from a prompt, so you use features like prompt management an A/B testing to see what version of your prompt performs better (i.e. is fit to the model you are using) on production.

I don’t think the common question is “Why not use Chrome instead of Safari?” but “Why use Safari?”

I have colleagues who are annoyed that I use Firefox because in their world everything Chrome does is standard and browsers like Safari and Firefox are annoying outliers. No matter if something they have implemented in Chrome is _actually_ standard and no matter how proper to the spec non-Chrome browsers implement a feature they see it as a chore to support the spec rather than the Chrome browser.

So, the "Why not use Chrome instead of Safari?” certainly happens.

Battery life.

Here is the neat part about Ruby, your autocomplete barely works and your IDE can only guess what you want, instead of relying on a good language service…

I remapped my capslock key to be control, time to write a cargo cult blogpost!

Good one, can you steelman the Epstein files or Nazi Germany next please?

> Balatro was one of the biggest games of last year, and I'm sure the tinkerability was a big catalyst to that

Not sure I agree on that point. Balatro is a great game and the mainstream success is warranted, but my gut tells me that the technical implementation was not the catalyst for that. Sure, Lua’s portability could have led to the cross-platform popularity, but a mainstream gamer does not tinker with and mod Balatro at all.

Yeah it is just a really easy to grasp game that pushes the right addiction buttons in our brain (see also the enormous success of megabonk)

But why? What value does living like this add to your life?

What a joke of a company. They have the internet in the palm of their hands, and yet let vibe coding ambitions ruin their empire.

Time for everyone to drop this company and move on to better solutions (until those better solutions rot from the inside out, just like their predecessor did)