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It’s a shame I cannot inspect the tool. It’s a shame I cannot modify it as I see fit. It’s a shame that I need to pay $200/month to use it. But hey, I am a 3X engineer and my boss likes it, so I guess it should be fine? Not really, but I still get to pay the bills (for now)

I miss the tools I used in the past (gcc, linux, sqlite,…)

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Mini-rant: The feel of the "PC" years ago was that it was a democratized fragment of the means of production, that wouldn't just do tasks for you, but give you agency. Today that agency is eroded, it feels more like a consumption terminal for whatever lopsided deal a big corporation deigns to offer... When they aren't already using it to spy on you.

> It’s a shame I cannot inspect the tool. It’s a shame I cannot modify it as I see fit.

https://github.com/openai/codex

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/kimi-code

https://github.com/mistralai/mistral-vibe

https://github.com/earendil-works/pi

https://claude.com/de/resources/articles/claude-code-mods

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