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> Why would a developer use Windows in 2026? To have somewhat working desktop OS with access to one of the most powerful dev environments in a form of Visual Studio?

To a casual reader of this thread - look at comments, this is what ideology is.

> You could ask a human to "do something with 1M dollars" and get garbage too At least the human's brain requires about 20 Watts to operate. Cheap garbage is better than garbage re…

> Democracy is an engineering exercise, just like any other system. God, tech people should have stayed in basements.

Who? But in all seriousness - you can even bring up Pope himself. Don't care. Show me data, show me the leaps our software made with all this 100x productivity boost. Show me a myr…

Uncle Bob was a dev celeb before there were dev celebs.

> Remember there was a paper saying programmers were 20% slower with AI? Key thing was not that they were X% slower, but that they were slower while being convinced they are faster…

> How about DHH, Max, Nolan, Steve, Mitchell Oh yes, dev celebs that rely on constant validation through social media. Very reliable source of data.

> You should stop using social media as your yardstick. Yes, don't believe people posting on HN.

> Random allocation of citizens to seats might actually make for a better government. Not only that, but that would be actually democratic concept. Greeks long ago found that elect…

> Combined with the ability to compile to a single native binary, having a solid package management solution, a fairly advanced type system, and a solid selection of nice language …

But the moment you step into social realm it becomes political, as Mr. Aristotle said.

Good, based. We need some pesticide.

> There’s millions of apps to choose from on your phone And choosing one of them obviously makes life more complicated than not doing that. > getting your ass profiled Gmail knows …

Yup, it is often mind-boggling how people here are detached from reality. Millions of people around the world rely on Google services, Gemini in all probability is the most used mo…

> But why people choose to bring the mediocrity of Google into their lives is beyond me. Because life gets simpler and better if you are just using what is available on your phone …

> google being their usual terrible selves at anything consumer-product related And yet millions of people around the world are using their stuff, very often using only their stuff…

> They basically don't exist in the currently most profitable LLM market (coding). I think you overestimate long-term relevance of popularity among code monkeys.

> but to consider "pixels on screens that you disagree with" to be worse than actual mass killing is maybe a tad hyperbolic here And who considers this? I never wrote that world wi…

"Don't hate the player, hate the game" I believe lack of social ostracization is one of the reason we find ourselves in current state. Because players are what perpetuates the game…

They would love to, though.

Thanks for correction, I'll try to be more accurate in the future

And where the acceleration comes in in such description? Improving one's immediate circumstances in such context is talking to someone and asking for help, not spending days instal…

Silicon Valley and Wall Street are cancer that should be cleansed with fire. If western societies couldn't lit the fire themselves, it is up to the Chinese dragon to burn it.

It is not enough to invent a new medicine. You also need to make it easily available. People investing in AI are not interested in giving new awesome medicine to people that couln'…