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I think it's great if reviewing code for you is faster than writing it. I don't think reviewing code well is something most developers can do faster than they can write it. I think…

You've said this a couple of times, but I don't understand what you're trying to say. Yes, I can do frustrating things, I know how to review and vet code. I also know how to write …

> LLMs (not even agents; LLMs themselves, intrinsically) use frameworks. That's not what I see the parent comment saying. They're not saying that LLMs can't use frameworks, they're…

So as an example of what this could look like that would be convincing to me. I started out pretty firmly believing that Rust was a fad. Then Mozilla and Google did things with it …

> The YC acceptance number is a measure of how many startups YC has decided they can handle in a single batch. Agreed. > I think percentage of accepted startups doing X carries mor…

Apple's policy was also the same for apps that you bought upfront. There are paid apps on the app store, they also were not allowed to link to payment methods in-app for things lik…

Yes! Why do people keep on asking this? Yes, practically every single tech product that you buy from Walmart will include links to their online stores in the packaging. Including A…

> Like standing it's original idea Patreon's original idea included the features you're calling antifeatures. You are imagining a fictional version of a platform that has never exi…

> It is also a better end user experience. If this was clearly true, Apple would not forbid apps from telling users that other payment methods exist. You don't have to hide alterna…

> difficult as possible for the user to circumvent. But not as difficult as possible for the user to be aware of. If an antivirus installed itself on my computer without my knowled…

> I doubt a significant portion of this niche is “being kept unaware” that Patreon has a website. If this was true then Apple wouldn't have provisions against informing them. Peopl…

> but I suspect it's a niche that Patreon is very interested in (both because Patreon can't engage them through any other channel, and because they probably have above-average disc…

> I'm a creator, not on Patreon due to sanctions and I have a dayjob for now. Great. Not to be blunt here, but if you're not on Patreon then who the heck cares what your opinion is…

> but someone apparently thinks they should. To be 1000% clear, the someone who is demanding this feature... is creators . This is a feature that creators heavily use, by their own…

Patreon does not require creators to pause payments when they go on break. But that should obviously be a choice that is available to creators, for a variety of reasons. They might…

> But the dev agreed to basically pay Apple an origination fee to publish an iOS app in their store. This is its own can of worms, but doesn't really change much about what I said …

Currently the majority of Apple's Safari revenue comes from Google search deals. Do you believe that if Apple got rid of those deals, it would be justified in applying similar rest…

> Is it allowed to put a notice that Android and web users are given a 30% discount on the normal prices No. You are not allowed to provide customers any details about other paymen…

> and likely have been advised they need to enforce it uniformly due to regulatory scrutiny. I'm not certain what the category difference is between Patreon subscriptions and Youtu…

Sure, I suppose. I do want to re-state that if the majority of Patreon users (not creators but users, subscribers ) agreed with you, Patreon already wouldn't exist. There is no con…

So... they would give Patreon money by going to their website? Is this a niche market that would never have been available to Patreon that Apple is helping Patreon access, or is th…

> Not infinite value, just any value versus 0 value. I'm not a fan of Patreon by any means, but it seems pretty silly to me to argue that Patreon offers literally zero value to con…

Sounds like a fun experiment. I'd be interested in Apple allowing Patreon to test that theory by disabling purchases within the app. Is this really about access to a niche user gro…

If we were having this conversation in the late 1800s I'm pretty sure that you would be arguing to me right now that the trans-continental railroad provides "tremendous value" to s…

Does Apple's change do anything at all to help alleviate any of the concerns you have? You have fewer subscriptions options for creators (1st-of-month billing and per-release billi…