You’re missing out on people getting better at working with ai to improve better long term goals, like testing suites and guardrails, velocity is inconsistent in my experience.

And vibe coding apps in the gym, is like playing a game by typing a cheat code, honestly it’s not satisfying

Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

> Try and export a few thousand Notes entries with images.

Not a problem, I don’t use Apple Notes on my Mac.

> Change how you like your day to day workflows in terms of window management

Not a problem, I can just customize my hammerspoon config to behave differently

> Share a home made app with some friends without helping them install it

That depends more on what my friends are using than what I use. Me using Linux wouldn’t make it any easier if they are using Windows or macOS.

> Fix a bug in the vendors software by writing a patch

Not being able to fix a bug in an OS doesn’t lock me into that OS. And there are bugs in any Linux distribution that are way too complex to fix even if theoretically possible. So it doesn’t make any difference.

A MacBook is pretty much locked to macOS even if it’s theoretically possible to boot a different OS but that doesn’t make me locked into macOS. I can sell my MacBook for a very reasonable price and buy whatever I want.

> And there are bugs in any Linux distribution that are way too complex to fix even if theoretically possible. So it doesn’t make any difference.

It does now with LLMs

This doesn’t sound like vendor lock in to me, but user preferences.

Lock-in: ownership over user choice and data

I thought our climate survival would have been that.

If you don’t understand how the sausage was made you have made legacy sausage.

If you don’t understand how the sausage was made, do you even know if it's sausage?

when I tell codex to build me a chat app and it uses gpt-4o

You wouldn’t want to run it without instruments and effects I’d imagine.

I've been building diagnostic tools for identifying and correcting errors with the syncing and backup process of the JottaCloud backup solution. This is its operational lore described as it might be told by firelight three hundred years on, when nobody remembers what a daemon was.

Key points only.

Anything written for humans should be written by humans.

Mainly I’m concerned about shortcut conflicts such as command q

You rather open the server up to security issues than have software where the developer has been assisted by ai which you feel decreases the quality of the code or is it for moral reasons?

Rsync is not being vibe coded, and it’s not become slop so would love to understand the position.

The integrity of the backups seems uncertain at this point.

A backup tool that doesn't do backups properly is less useful than one with a CVE that might be exploited if the stars align.