These arguments unfortunately fail flat in front of industrial use. AWS could be considered "critical" by most metrics and what is is it written in? Java
Yeah no, that's not it. Not everyone has to chase the highest purpose. A lot of existential dread would go away if:
1/ People had hopes of buying a house in their lifetime
2/ They were not afraid of being let go at any point
3/ Social media did not create a hedonistic treadmill
The whole higher purpose narrative is bs to keep sell more books or courses or whatever author is selling. And what's with random yellow highlights and bold formatting on every second sentence?
It has the option of doing that, it asks you if you want to enable the backups.
It also allows you to encrypt the backups with a passkey or a password that you can manually set, client-side.
It didn’t always have the encryption option I think.
1. Automatic capture with structured extraction: Grov uses Haiku to extract reasoning_trace (conclusions + insights) and decisions (choice + why) from each session. You don't write anything, it captures automatically.
2. Intelligent injection by file match: When you edit src/auth/login.ts, Grov queries past sessions that touched auth files and injects only that context. A markdown file would be read entirely every time, wasting tokens. (next version will also include semantic search)
3.Team sync: Automatically syncs to a team dashboard. When dev A explains the auth system, dev B's Claude knows it automatically while doing related work.
Technically this was the core idea of Grov, for my coding agent to know the reasoning behind why my cofounder's coding agent chose to implement xyz in such way.
Language server protocol is a huge deal! Without it, I think we'd still see a lot more JetBrains style language bespoke IDE use and a lot less VSCode style text editor + plugin combos.
Since the original post was about a TUI editor, its worth mentioning Helix which supports most modern language out the box. That's amazing and wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.
Sublime, Atom, VSCode, and now Zed are all GUI-based. That's not bad - but I prefer the terminal (and I find tmux + ssh very convenient). I guess it's a matter of personal taste.
For terminal based, there are also many options but not so much in the direction of "VSCode style". They're mostly focused on being "vi-style". And also the huge file support isn't as good in any of the others that I've tried.
I'm a big emacs user for many years but the amount of config tweaking and package installation needed (for me) is too much. And I never made it past the elisp learning curve
Genuinely curious why you're tweaking your configuration so frequently. I've been an emacs user for ten years now, and I've settled on a configuration that works. I hear this a lot, too, and I just can't figure out why people need to edit their .emacs file so much.
Gemini app is pretty solid and aistudio is a good dev focused offering. GCP and Vertex AI is still a bit of a mess but I wouldn't say the overall UX is too bad at this point
I think you may have confused parent commenter's "Handmade software movement" types comment to Handmade cities which doesn't seem related to me other than the common word handmade
I have no comment on Cloudflare being evil, but if you actually try to use their hosting products which come with a generous free tier, you realize how bad the DX is:
- Their dashboard is next to GCP in terms of how bad it is.
- They ship like three different CLIs that'll often have overlapping functionality: wrangler, c3, cloudflared and flarectl. It feels like an organizationally confused tooling strategy dumped on the user.
- Docs are often out of date
They really need to learn a thing or two from Vercel on the DX
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