The pace of changes in the space is absolutely bonkers tho so these opinions might only be relevant until next week.

10/10

Zed has some interesting ideas but their pace is a little slow compared to the rest of the space. "The entire LLM chat is a text buffer" is powerful in theory, but I haven't found use for it in practice. Maybe a skill issue.

9/

Speaking of Claude, gonna echo the sentiments of others and say that I'm not sure Claude 3.7 was much of an upgrade. It can be a bit cleverer, but also is prone to go off on a tangent and stick a bunch of dumb stuff in my codebase if there are issues with the one-shot solution.

8/

Aider is decent and obviously being able to use other models is a key feature, but atm the claude models are still strongest for agentic coding and claude code is so deeply integrated it's hard to compete.

7/

Claude code is really great at running through an entire code-base and making changes, as long as they are not too complex. e.g. you can just say "add a new API route" and it will not only do that but also make sure all the plumbing is there as well, like auto-writing tests and such...

6/

The chat sidebars in IDEs (Cursor/Cline/Roo/Copilot/etc) work well for single-file work, but they struggle when it comes to tasks that need agenting all over the codebase (especially an existing complex codebase). For that I prefer the agentic CLIs like claude code.

5/

Cursor still has the best/smartest tab-complete in the game. Copilot has been making progress but Cursor's autocomplete knows what I want to do next 95% of the time, esp when it comes to any sort of re-factoring.

4/

Generalizing for all of these tools, they are a much better coding companion for greenfield projects that they helped create (i.e. vibe coding) than they are at interacting with projects that have been built by messy humans over years.

3/

I didn't feel this way about previous models because there were still too many hallucinations when dealing with hairy problems. CoT seems to do a great job of cutting down on that. DeepSeek R1 was pretty good at this too and I used it for a while, but the above two have eclipsed it imo.

2/

Where do you stick all these notes?

I have my own notetaking platform, and even to me that sounds like a lotta notes

How do you draw a clear line between religion and politics when so many people have made politics into a religion?

Everybody is replying telling me their market cap is huge, but also everyone in this thread is saying they are massively overvalued. So which is it? You can’t simultaneously say “they’re the biggest because they have the biggest market cap” and “ their market cap is nonsensical/fake/etc”

Isn’t Tesla the little guy? Most car companies are still bigger than them in terms of car production, right?

> if it doesn’t rain

Yep, that makes sense. We will add this as a preference in the next version 👍

I'm sure I'll get used to it, but right now whenever I want to go to bluesky I start typing "blue" and of course bsky.app is not the top result in my browser