something GPT-4.1 and Gemini 1.5 Flash also did very well!

I'd argue that even GPT-5 and Sonnet 4 at their highest reasoning budgets are not enough for "real coding work" because you still have to think about how an LLM should do it instead of what, and put it into a prompt. some harnesses, such as JetBrains Junie or Gemini CLI, make a good job of letting me drift into declarative prompts, but that's still not enough.

everything a layman would call "AI" is in the "uncanny valley" at the moment!

- Boston Dynamics' Atlas does not move as gracefully as a human

- LLM writing and code is oh-so-easy to spot

- the output of diffusion models is indistinguishable from a photo... until you look at it for longer than 5 seconds and decide to zoom in because "something's wrong"

- motion in AI-generated videos is very uncanny

unlike Anthropic, iTunes and Starbucks are profitable.

suppose iTunes gets $1 from every $5 spent there. if Apple sold a $50 gift card, it can pocket $10 and not worry about it. Anthropic, OTOH, sells their API at loss, so unused credits mean losses that await to be materialized. it is unprofitable for them to let you keep the compute bucks forever.

TypeScript does not compile to machine code (in case of Android, ART bytecode) directly. Instead, it compiles to JS, which has a lot of well-known problems and is not as performant as machine code. Yeah, iPhones not older than 3-5 years will not notice it because of Apple's best-in-class flagship chipsets, but hey, 1) not everyone in the world has an iPhone and 2) why waste computing power and battery life? WASM wouldn't exist if not for JS's poor performance - it simply would not need to! I'm still glad TS exists, though, because it fixes quite a lot of problems with JavaScript DX just by marrying it with types. The only problem of TypeScript is JavaScript. (Arguably, also Microsoft, but this is a separate discussion.) Heck, the biggest problem of the whole web IS JavaScript - that's why there is a comeback trend in HTML/CSS-centric frameworks. JS is simply unable to sustain such heavyweight frameworks as React (including React Native, which is what Bluesky uses). Such frameworks as SwiftUI and Compose are living proofs of that - while you stay with Kotlin/Native or Kotlin/JVM targets (iOS, Android, JVM desktop), your app feels snappy, assuming you wrote it well, because you stay close to the metal. Once you move to Kotlin/JS, though, you are fucked. Immediately, you lose tons of performance, making such a beautiful framework with the best animations API in the world usable only for PowerPoint-style slideshows. Kotlin/WASM backend is still experimental, but future Kotlin/JS backend deprecation is confirmed.