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You can just uninstall the app


If true, this seems like a serious problem for something that's supposed to stop circumvention. Uninstalling an app is trivial on iOS, even easier than unlocking Screen Time.

If not - e.g. if you have to scan the barcode / QR code to uninstall the app (a block that I don't think Apple would allow) - then presumably you'd need to reinstall iOS from scratch.


You nailed why Apple chose to let people uninstall - that would be crazy if you could soft brick your phone.


Its about friction, not security.


I'm surprised nobody is mentioning how cheap copilot pro is. $20 and you get all you can eat inference without using your own api key for the models on vs code agent mode.


Copilot pales in comparison to Cursor Pro. I've trialed it three or four times in the last two years and stopped using it after a few days each time. Honestly, I have no idea why anyone pays for it given the alternatives.

My only wish is that Cursor had partnered with Zed. vscode isn't enjoyable.


FWIW,you can log in to github copilot with Zed and it will use your copilot subscription instead of needing to pay for api calls.


I'm sure it is but cursor plus API usage is out of reach for my hobbyist usage


I’m on Pro+ and get rate limited heavily. 1-2 hours of semi heavy use and the brakes kick in. I can’t stay productive in it because this always rips me out


All copilot models feel lobotomized. It’s like they’re deliberately running them at low performance or something.


Exactly. If you choose the approach with no tech debt but takes twice as long, how are you going to hide that from your manager?


how come?


I was thinking it's an example in the system prompt. "Here's how you would behave when corrected" or similar


This exists. https://bigfreeze.com/projects - They have one at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle: https://podcam.net/pacsci/


Or they took something that was presented as LSD but was actually something else. This sounds like the kind of nerve damage people get from taking dangerous doses of MDMA. Not saying it's MDMA specifically but it could have been something neurotoxic.


Their experience sounded nothing like MDMA. And some small group of "lucky" people do have similar after-effects from LSD or even mushrooms (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucinogen_persisting_percep... ).

I have no reason to think it wasn't LSD, but there's also a decent possibility it was something else passed off as LSD, which is a fun consequence of the war on drugs.


Check out 6b6t if you haven't already. It's an anarchy server that runs on multipaper, which is a distributed Minecraft server. The owner claims it can support 1000 simultaneous players.


I think capitalism might take care of this. Let's say we have tools that make devs 10x more productive. A company could lay off 90% of their engineers and produce as much as they did before generative AI. What if their competitor decides they're going to retain all of their engineers and produce 10x more than they did before? That's going to force everyone to staff up to be able to keep up with the 10x company.


> I think capitalism might take care of this

This has never saved anyone's job from automation. Ask the coal mining industry in the US. In fact, capitalism will do the opposite because investors own most companies and investors like to see reductions in head counts.

> What if their competitor decides they're going to retain all of their engineers and produce 10x more than they did before?

There are very few companies where "more code" = "more profit". Code is a cost center and support function of the business. Look at all the companies that recently fired 20%+ of their coders and are more profitable than they were before.

If your coders are 10x as productive and your business is growing in a healthy way, your bottleneck is going to be sales and marketing. It probably already was sales and marketing. You're not going to retain all the people you don't need.


Thought the exact same thing when I read someone’s conspiracy theory about why FAANG have laid everyone off due to ChatGPT making them redundant.

Seems a little stupid if your competitor has way more productivity?


Any benchmarks?



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