Article about emacs in the face of the employer company buying into Cursor.

Interesting excerpt:

> However, strict moderation is pushing people away. The high barrier to posting and the risk of questions being closed make Stack Overflow feel unwelcoming. Generic forums don’t fill the gap either—they are perceived as too broad, and members lack the expertise that Stack Overflow is known for. Faced with these failures, developers turn to people they know personally because they trust their contact has relevant skills and will respond promptly. Stack Overflow’s opportunity lies in digitally replicating these trusted expert connections.

Maybe the fact that they're working on imagen explains why Gemini is just so bad.

The word search for "fart" shows the tool's limits. No entry I saw actually said the word fart, but was listed as doing so -- "fart nawor" (hearts around the world irl), the penny farting (the penny farthing irl), etc.

Opus 4(.1) is so expensive[1]. Even Sonnet[2] costs me $5 per hour (basically) using OpenRouter + Codename Goose[3]. The crazy thing is Sonnet 3.5 costs the same thing[4] right now. Gemini Flash is more reasonable[5], but always seems to make the wrong decisions in the end, spinning in circles. OpenAI is better, but still falls short of Claude's performance. Claude also gives back 400's from its API if you CTRL-C in the middle though, so that's annoying.

Economics is important. Best bang for the buck seems to be OpenAI ChatGPT 4.1 mini[6]. Does a decent job, doesn't flood my context window with useless tokens like Claude does, API works every time. Gets me out of bad spots. Can get confused, but I've been able to muddle through with it.

1: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.1

2: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4

3: https://block.github.io/goose/

4: https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-3.5-sonnet

5: https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-2.5-flash

6: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-4.1-mini