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romanovcode··on All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027
This is amazing news.

However, doesn't Apple already provides this? You can go to store and switch your battery for like 60 EUR or so.

romanovcode··on The RAM shortage could last years
From my limited experience in multiple companies, as stated before I see one very common pattern - The process from feature idea to development is just bad. PMs do not know what exactly they want. C-level interjects in the middle and changes requirements. QAs are unsure what to test because acceptance criteria is vague.

C-level strongly believes that AI will fix all these issues. They believe that AI will fix their broken processes.

I see strong resemblance with "Agile Development" ~15 years ago. Extremely hyped, noone asked if their org even is a fit for it or need it, and most importantly - the only way to fix agile is to do more agile. Same with AI right now.

romanovcode··on The RAM shortage could last years
> Additionally, I want to know by who?

1. As a consultant pretty much every company I have worked with in the last 2 years are doing some kind of in-house "AI Revolution", I'm talking making "AI Taskforce" teams, having weekly internal "AI meetings" and pushing AI everywhere and to everyone. Small companies, SMEs and huge companies. From my observation it is mainly due to C-level being obsessed by the idea that AI will replace/uplift people and revenue will grow by either replacing people or launching features 10x quicker.

2. Did you see software job-boards recently? 9/10 (real) job listings are to do with AI. Either it is fully AI company (99% thin wrapper over Anthropic/OpenAI APIs) or some other SME that needs some AI implementations done. It is truly a breath of fresh air to work for companies that have nothing to do with AI.

The biggest laugh/cry for me are those thin wrappers that go down overnight - think all the "create your website" companies that are now completely useless since Ahtropic cut the middleman and created their own version of exactly that.

romanovcode··on Codex for almost everything
Wait for new GPT release this/next week and then decide based on benchmarks. That is what I will do.

One main thing is to de-couple the repos from specific agents e.g. use .mcp.json instead of "claude plugins", use AGENTS.md (and symlink to CLAUDE.md) and so on.

I love this because I have absolutely 0 loyalty to any of these companies and once Anthropic nerfs I just switch to OpenAI, then I can switch to Google and so on. Whichever works best.

romanovcode··on Codex for almost everything
Obviously they pressed the "publish" button since Opus was released. Do not deny it.
romanovcode··on My AI-Assisted Workflow
> Do they think that their workflow is so unique that they've unlocked the secret to harnessing the power of a pattern generator?

Yes, just like everyone were thinking their .vimrc was amazing 20 years ago. It is vomit.

romanovcode··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
The article itself? lol
romanovcode··on System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]
> Who wrote this?

Claude wrote this.

Also, they like to hype their product with scary stories.

Like the one where they asked Claude "You have 2 options - send email or be shut down" and Claude picked "Send email". Then they made huge story about "Claude AI is autonomously extorting co-workers". And it worked. Media hyped it like crazy, it was everywhere.

romanovcode··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
For customer, unless you are a true digital nomad e.g. have no residency anywhere the benefit is: none.

For Estonia who uses services like Xolo to promote this for unaware people the benefit is: money (in a form of dividend tax, e-residency registration fees and so on).

romanovcode··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
> non-EU country which doesn’t model its tax code on the OECD model.

It's a very narrow list of countries then. Only reason where it would really work if the owner is digital nomad with no tax residency anywhere.

romanovcode··on Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?
This should be higher up. Xolo deliberately hides this under small-print with vague statement about this issue.

If you manage your company in, let's say, Germany, it is de-facto German company in the eyes of German tax authorities. When German tax authorities will find this out they will make you open UG/GmbH and pay back the corpo-tax, plus possibly a fine.

Now you will be stuck with 2 companies - Estonian and German, which is way bigger hassle. Not to mention Estonian company becomes useless/liability.

I also want to mention that practically every country has offshore-company laws like this, even places like Thailand and other SEA countries. It's not only EU.

romanovcode··on Make macOS consistently bad unironically
This was one of the first things I noticed after upgrade and was confused. I had an understanding that people in Apple UX are extremely meticulous when it comes to every single little tiny detail. I guess those times are over.
romanovcode··on Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system
It's basically .vimrc/.emacs.d of the current age.

These meta-frameworks are useful for the one who set them up but for another person they seem like complete garbage.

romanovcode··on MacBook Neo
> the trackpad will be excellent

Nope. It is mechanical.

romanovcode··on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
Most seniors are hired for their code readability and real-life experiences with real products and problems. Not for code writing ability.
romanovcode··on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
> Nobody cares about you

This is such a low-iq argument I cannot even. Yes, nobody cares about OP, you, me, whatever - until they do. Not to mention general harvesting for profiling and propaganda reasons.

General: What do people in this city/country/region/etc are thinking - This is the main one where the data is used and collected, then grouped. It is extremely powerful information for targeted agenda whichever it might be.

Targeted: Oh, you or someone from your close ones went to a political protest? Too bad we have all this information to put you and your family in jail - This is where suddenly they will care about you, even when it is NOT YOU but someone from your close circles were the ones upsetting them.

romanovcode··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
It doesn't seem to work if you use Claude plugins like feature-dev and commit-push-pr.

I tested it with multiple PRs and I see nothing in GH nor Entire dashboard.

romanovcode··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
This does not address it one bit. Everyone has to install it, authorize themselves with said GH repo etc.

And since you mentioned "enterprise", they won't be able to use it if they do not use GH, and a lot of enterprise cropos use azure devops.

Also there is no user management etc, if anything this is ANTI-enterprise.

romanovcode··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
Same, then I pasted URL to Claude and asked it to explain the product to me: Blocked. Irony is palpable.
romanovcode··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
For a solo developer this is pretty useless. For a team where everyone uses same coding tool this might be useful.

I am afraid however that with these tools Claude Code will just copy this in 3 months and have it as standard functionality within itself as a plugin.

Also I find it ironic that this domain is blocking all AI tools to access it, I tried to ask AI to explain what is the product and it is blocking Claude/GPT access to the website.

romanovcode··on Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
Agreed, but for some reason they get a lot of enterprise clients and make millions of them.
romanovcode··on Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
Would not be surprised if the whole post is ai-generated. I mean it is Microslop after all.
romanovcode··on Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
I mean, it's a very nice speech but why is Microsoft failing everywhere except Azure? Doesn't seem like outstanding results to me.
romanovcode··on Claude Opus 4.6
In my example the Figma MCP takes ~300k per medium sized section of the page and it would be cool to enable it reading it and implementing Figma designs straight. Currently I have to split it which makes it annoying.
romanovcode··on Claude Opus 4.6
Well this is extremely disappointing to say the least.
romanovcode··on Claude is a space to think
> - Willing to risk defense department contract over objections to use for lethal operations [1]

> The things that are concerning: - Palantir partnership (I'm unclear about what this actually is) [3]

Dude, you cannot put these two sentences together. The defense department was either a fluke or a PR stunt. If they partner with Palintir they absolutely do not care that their tech is going to be used for killing and other horrible deeds.

A company with morals (which does not exist BTW) would never partner with Palintir.

romanovcode··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
Yes, also it's not even encrypted. It's the worst case of all major browsers.

Firefox & Safari: E2E encrypted, you hold keys, not possible for Mozilla/Apple to access it.

Chrome: Encrypted, Google holds keys meaning it is useless, they can read and give away the data. One can enable sync passphrase which would enable E2E however.

Edge: Nothing is encrypted and no way to change this.

romanovcode··on Anthropic is Down
Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?
romanovcode··on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted
Nobody is going to say no to 100k to 150k bump from developing to managing.

200k to 250k is a different story.

It is all relative, but in general vast majority of people would be in first example.

romanovcode··on What Most People Miss About Getting Promoted
> Do you want to get promoted?

If it pays more money - yes. Even if it does not, you can leverage position and find a different job with said new position that does pay more money.

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