Surely what they make from these ads is negligible enough to not warrant the terrible user experience for something users pay for. The ads in Apple News are infuriating.

At 52" I now believe that there is a limit to the size of a monitor. This might have crossed it.

Preaching to the wrong choir. The HN community is reaping massive benefits from generative AI.

I had the privilege of working with a great SWE intern this year. Their fresh ideas and strong work ethic made a real impact. Experienced engineers need this kind of energy.

Yes many over-rely on LLMs, but new engineers see possibilities we've stopped noticing and ask the questions we've stopped asking. Experience is invaluable, but it can quietly calcify into 'this is just how things are done.'

I have kids and I like this but as we know, prohibition only makes the drink stronger and the thirst deeper.

This is probably one of those tickets on the backlog that is constantly kicked down the road. Always superseded by a new fire.

We have just cut the costs of software development by 90% didn't we?

While pushing the requirement for speed of development up by only 100%!

Even if that's were true, I would be very surprised if this caused a loss of even 0.0000001% annual revenue. Going to need more 9's in that number.

edit: If you don't understand why this is actually important, realize that they're burning billions. They don't focus their devs on things that generate revenue, or the light will go out.

Besides being a meme stock, Tesla is also in the enviable position of owning its entire stack - software, hardware, chips, manufacturing etc., unlike Honda that has many critical components built by other manufacturers and not tightly integrated with the software. It is therefore well placed to make much more revenue per vehicle, if only the owner of the company can get out of its way.

Owning entire stack has benefits for sure, especially if you're dominating market. But it also comes at a huge cost - you now need to pay for R&D for the whole stack yourself.

Tesla was dreaming of dominating market. But it looks like it peaked already and its sales are falling. Having to do R&D for entire stack without growth is a very very costly proposal. It often results in just not doing R&D, and falling behind.

Meta is onto something pretty remarkable. The only problem with their glasses is that they’re built by Meta.

Well said, I would buy them in a heartbeat if it was from a moral company.

Can you give an example of a moral company? Is Apple one?

Apple tries to own all economic activity on the platform, like a mobster running a protection racket.

Meta is a voyeur, trying to figure out when you take a shit so they can put ads for toilet paper in front of your face.

It’s really a matter of taste.

Naturally, moral is a relative term when it comes to companies in a society like ours. However I would say Purism, Pine64, Raspberry Pi, or Framework would be acceptable.

Yes.

If you close your eyes on cozying up to authoritarian regimes. Apple operates in China at Beijing's pleasure. Much of it is behind the scenes because that's how Chinese like to do. Compare that to US, where everything is a show. Look no further than the gold plated plaque that Apple gave to Trump. That was shameful.

An imperfect analogy, but...

Apple conserves privacy in the US by exporting privacy violations to China.

Kind of like relocating your polluting industrial processes overseas.

Funny thing is, we can assume that all the nasty stuff happens in China... but Apple is still a US company.

However Tim Cook kisses up to Trump in public is corollary to how he kisses ass in private. If Chinese iCloud servers had backdoored HSMs installed without anyone throwing a hissy-fit, imagine what kind of control the US Government has had for the past decade...

What is remarkable about it?

For me - hands free operation. I love to use them at my kids games and events. Many times parents are trying to both watch and capture that special moment and fail at both. The LLM has so much potential but hobbled by the fact that it is supported by Llama.

Swift is actually a really good language let down by its official IDE. Slow build times, laggy autocomplete, random crashes etc. I can’t remember Xcode ever being great to use.

> Slow build times, laggy autocomplete, random crashes etc.

I bet these issues are caused by Swift though, because C, C++ and ObjC don't have those problems in Xcode (it's still far from perfect, but it's not slow or crashing).

I wish Apple would buy Jetbrains... or maybe even better, sizeable investment in them so they maintain autonomy and build a warchest to survive the current AI wave.

Imagine an AppCode successor that was designed in full partnership with the XCode team? Tantalizing.

If Apple bought Jetbrains, they would ruin the Jetbrains products. It wouldn't go the way you're hoping.

I guess it's good thing there's a ton of word riggght after that...

but please don't let that stop you from being the 4th comment to repeat itself.

Well, I'm reacting to part of what you said.

The other part might be OK, but it's just too hard for me to imagine, I suppose. :-)

As daily user of Jetbrains’ software (and someone who agrees with TFA about xcode) I don’t want Apple anywhere near them

So as a daily user of Jetbrains software, who also finds XCode awful, you would not want XCode replaced by a Jetbrains project that isn't hacked together and reverse engineered like AppCode was?

Or you just wanted to be dramatic?

What would actually happen is that all of Toolbox would be replaced by Xcode.

No one wants that.

I'm sure Apple's Dev Tools team reads HN, and it's baffling they just don't care that the product has such a bad reputation. Or if the team cares, some layer of adjacent management clearly doesn't.

This would result in every current JetBrains user in every other language on every other platform suffer. That's a pretty big chunk of all programmers everywhere

Please tell me how

> or maybe even better, sizeable investment in them so they maintain autonomy and build a warchest to survive the current AI wave.

Somehow harms Jetbrains.

Apple would abandon other IDEs and shitify AppCode over time.

Ideally they’d do what Google did with Android Studio. Of course Apple would never openly admit that their product is inferior to that of any of their competitors..

I also agree, I would not want this to happen.