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The first screenshot of their website is giving extreme "While you were partying, I studied the blade" vibes.

>Frequently the author brings up that for 2,000 euros they expect a premium experience, but no where is there an evaluation of the value granted by upgradability and repeatability of the machine, and only briefly is there mention of the configurability.

I'm convinced that a lot of people have Dunning-Kruger effect when it comes to niche products like Framework. The fact that Framework exists at all is amazing, and like you said, it's frustrating to see the lack of understanding of the core value proposition of Framework both in this post and HN.

>unless you genuinely subscribe to the notion that they can somehow be fixed via mass immigration from third-world countries.

There are a lot of people who do subscribe to that, mainly people who are on the left side of the political spectrum. Heck, the entire Biden administration believed that.

Depending on my finances, I'd probably paint for a little bit. When I say paint, I mean paint buildings, not paint canvas or anything like that. Did this for a few years in college and it was satisfying to actually see physical proof of your work. Also, the only way you ever took you work home with you was if you got paint on yourself.

Interesting, why do you regret it?

I don't think so. I've seen multiple posts from Figma and Codex talking about the best way of working with both tools.

The key part is all the way at the bottom of the article:

>And at the signing ceremony for the order, Sacks pledged to “work with Congress” to “define [a] framework” for AI.

Sacks probably thinks that by having the EO, it'll act as leverage with Congress. Time will tell if he's right.

GPT 5.2 has gotten a lot better at building UI elements when given a Figma MCP server link. I used to use Claude for building brand new UI elements based on the Figma link, but 5.2 caught up to a point where I'm probably going to cancel Claude.

I'd argue that 5.2 just barely squeaks past Sonnet 4.5 at this point. Before this was released, 4.5 absolutely beat Codex 5.1 Medium and could pretty much oneshot UI items as long as I didn't try to create too many new things at once.

I'm actually liking 5.2 in Codex. It's able to take my instructions, do a good job at planning out the implementation, and will ask me relevant questions around interactions and functionality. It also gives me more tokens than Claude for the same price. Now, I'm trying to white label something that I made in Figma so my use case is a lot different from the average person on this site, but so far it's my go to and I don't see any reason at this time to switch.

>“I actually think we’re capable of taking whatever pricing we need,” said CFO Hugh Johnston in 2022. And the company did just that, raising prices by double digit percentages for seven straight quarters in 2022-2023.

I hate to say it, but was he proven wrong? People are still buying junk food and soda (their primary products) despite prices going up. Looking at Pepsis profit margin, it seems to have hovered between 9.5% and 10.5% since 2021.

>Amazon does more harm and is a larger threat to Americans and your children than China is

Yeah, I'm going to need some examples as to how Amazon is worse than China.

>But I also expect the parking lots used by employees at any GM design facility in the world to be mostly full of General Motors products, not Fords.

I think you'd be surprised about the vehicle makeup at Big 3 design facilities.

It's kind of wild reading the writings of a neoliberal who wishes that the clock could be turned back to the Clinton or Obama administration. I think the worst part is that his own cherry picked quotes don't really support his thesis. His quote from the Economist doesn't even really focus on free trade, it focuses more on how China is outsmarting Europe.

>I bet those tests are not cheap in the USA.

Within 5 minutes of searching I found a PT time with INR test for $24 [0]. Add in the testing fee and it's probably around $30.

[0] https://www.ultalabtests.com/test/prothrombin-time-with-inr-...

That would be an interesting play. Acquire a chip design and foundry company all because they couldn't meet the purposely stringent deadline, and then use their expertise and assets to produce AI chips for yourself.

How could we harness this energy and make it usable?

I find it to be sometimes easier to utilize my Figma library to design what I want as I generally don't have to do rework. It gets annoying after awhile to waste tokens and context dealing with stupid small things like "Hey, the icon in the icon button is wrong." if you do prompting. Pulling in the same icon & icon button through a MCP is generally easier.

Your last paragraph doesn't really make you come off as a libertarian at all. If Apple is truly a bad actor, then the libertarian response isn't to have the EU force them to use USB-C on iPhones, it's for people to move away from iPhones to other choices, which means Androids.

This is what I'm seeing in the design market. With Figma Make, you can write a prompt, tell it to use your design library, generate a flow, and then hand it off to developers and say "Hey, look at this, can you implement this?". Alternatively, you can use Cursor/Claude Code/Codex to pull in Figma design system elements via MCP, and generate flows that way. You can push features so much faster with the same or fewer people, and lets be honest, pushing more features in less time is the #1 metric at a lot of companies even if they claim otherwise.

I wonder what this means for UX designers like myself who would love to take a screen from Figma and turn it into code with just a single call to the MCP. I've found that Gemini 3 in Figma Make works very well at one-shotting a page when it actually works (there's a lot of issues with it actually working, sadly), so hopefully Opus 4.5 is even better.

I bought a Pro subscription (or the lowest tier paid plan, whatever it's called), and the fact that I had to fill out a Google Form in order to request access to get Gemini 3 CLI is an absolute joke. I'm not even a developer, I'm a UX guy who just likes playing around with seeing how models deal with importing Figma screens and turn them into a working website. Their customer experience is shockingly awful, worse than OpenAI and Anthropic.

>I get the sense that real estate in general is an extraordinarily mixed bag with far larger deviations than I’m used.

Most people who work in professions that require doing more than the bare minimum in order to not get a bad performance review and eventually let go from their company will be shocked by what happens in real estate at all levels (building, buying, selling).

Have you found that Gemini is better than Codex for front end generation? I'm trying to bring some Figma screens into a small React project I have, and Codex will occasionally screw up the implementation despite the fact that I'm using the MCP server.

Perhaps they're combining an incredibly complex product that has a lot of interactive features, a big codebase, test creation, and maybe throwing some MCP stuff in there such as creating creating a ticket in Jira if a test fails?

>mechanics lose money working on them because Ford doesn’t accurately represent the time it takes to fix something

I believe this is mainly for warranty or recall work. If it's out of warranty, then the charges can be much higher. It also depends on the difficulty of the work being done. I had my Mustangs rear diff seal replaced under warranty, and I guarantee you that doing that wasn't that bad in terms of pay or time taken.

>Talking about "illegals", and expressing contempt for people who care about them.

I do have contempt for illegals and the people in the countries where they're illegally present who care about them and stymie attempts to remove said illegals. It's a gross violation of the social contract and I'm tired of people just hand waving it away like it's no big deal and we just have to accept it.

>Not that it matters for immigration policy, but Britain's food was greatly improved by immigration

I agree with you that it doesn't/shouldn't matter for immigration policy, but at the same time I've heard this argument used by people who brand themselves as pro-immigration as a reason why we can't do anything about illegal immigrants because if they're deported, who will cook their unique cuisine?

>Recently, weren't there supply and inflation issues regarding food?

From a US perspective, the supply and inflation issues regarding food were primarily focused on eggs, and the problem resolved itself as soon as companies stopped killing chickens due to whatever avian flu was going around. That being said, it might be different for the land of kidney pies, I'm not sure.

Also, I should've been clearer in my original comment. I usually hear the whole "but what about the food?" argument from people who are just upset that deportation of illegals will make their favorite empanada restaurant close, or who argue that the original food of a place is terrible and by introducing migrants of legal or illegal status, then everything (culinary scene & life in general) will magically become better.

>Is the food better and more wholesome?

Why do people always focus on food in these discussions? It's such a weak argument.

You could make an argument that for the investment savvy, this is a great move. Say a 30Y payment is $1000/mo. A 50Y payment may be $800/mo. Put the difference ($200/mo) into something like SPY, and in 5 to 10 years, you'll have a small chunk of change that you could tap into.

I doubt many people, if any, will do this though.