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My cc plugin on vscode does not allow me to switch models at all. Always defaults to sonnet and says that the /model will take effect on a new session
But if I open a new session it's again the same thing. Model is sonnet
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Good call. The original comment is making fun of the incorrect double negative. “Without no way” means there is a way.
Shakespeare himself uses the double negative for emphasis, FFS. It never was, nor never will be incorrect.
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Good call. The original comment is making fun of the incorrect double negative. “Without no way” means there is a way.
Many kinds of double negative are acceptable in many English dialects, and are interpreted as emphasis. The negatives add, rather than multiply. (Though I admit I myself don't speak such a dialect, hence the equivocation.)
This all feels like a race where the model companies try to solve doing work locally in a way that doesn't suck, before the major operating systems companies figure out AI integration into their OS that doesn't suck. It also makes me wonder why Google which has both Gemini and Android can't figure this out, and if there are lessons to draw from that.
Google is historically terrible as a product company (and has succeeded in spite of that) As their technical innovations become less of a moat (we're already there) they won't be able to win on engineering alone (they are no longer winning on engineering alone)
I don’t specifically like these but they are much better than microsoft for an example
Back in the day, personalization / customization was all the rage, as it lets the user feel the control, power and freedom. Now it's the opposite. It's about not letting user to have any control at all. I can't delete some junk apps from my phone and mac, because they are "system" apps. As a non-geek, I can't deal with complexity of the browser and account settings to stop it from what is doing. We are at the mercy o…
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By any definition of good usability, Gmail is not good and Google Docs are not far behind. It’s not that they are functionally bad, just really poor UX.
That's hyperbole. They have flaws, but at the very least, when they were launched, they were arguably best in class. I'm not sure how much me sticking with them is due to familiarity and muscle memory but I know they won we over purely on merit in the beginning.
But as others have mentioned, they operating model of Google as a company incentivises creating products but does not incentivise refining it. Gmail has gotten far richer in functionality but at the same time the interface has gotten far less consistent. Their competitors (mainly Microsoft but not only them) also got richer functionality, but they also paid attention to UX. While none are perfect, there are definitely some better than others. Familiarity definitely breeds inertia though, I’ll grant that.
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> Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally? Because in a lot of companies, your machine is actually just a portal to a remote desktop.
The Venn diagram of “Corporate” vs “Company” definitely has VDI and ServiceNow at the center of it.
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> Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally? Because in a lot of companies, your machine is actually just a portal to a remote desktop.
Not in my personal experience. Never been in that situation, and I've worked in full-stack, FE, and BE teams.
Back in the day, personalization / customization was all the rage, as it lets the user feel the control, power and freedom. Now it's the opposite. It's about not letting user to have any control at all. I can't delete some junk apps from my phone and mac, because they are "system" apps. As a non-geek, I can't deal with complexity of the browser and account settings to stop it from what is doing. We are at the mercy o…
Highly recommend trying a linux computer with kde. I have been having similar annoyances with my macbook and switching to kde felt really good. Even though the hardware of the linux pc isn’t nearly as good.