And what comes to original article, there is no "text [systems]" (or there is, like there are "number [systems]", just made up). "Text" like this very thing you are reading is 2D drawing. There are no character glyphs of any kind (latin, logograms etc.) defined by universe*, they are human invented and stored/interpreted at human collective level. Computers don't know anything about text, only "numbers" of some bit width, and with those numbers a system must be created that can map some number representation to some drawing in some method (e.g. with bitmap). Also there is a lot of difference between formal/executable and natural human languages. Anyways, it's not a about some text format/encoding, it's the human/computer defined/interpreted non-linguistical meaning behind it (Wittgenstein).
* DNA/RNA can be one such "universal character glyph/string", as the "textual" information is physically constructed and interpreted.
The exit of the company by the founders was definitely timely, if having assumption that SO can't be "relevant" anymore at the times of LLMs. Of course there is always value for human-to-human Q&A that goes beyond LLM training set, but that might happen now only at cutting-edge private environments/communities.
Quality vs quantity of course depends on the nature of work. If you are employee and all the working infrastructure is ready there to be used, you can "just" focus on doing something, what ever it is. If you are employer, you can't "just" even go to the work, because you have to use unpredicted amount of time to figure out what you even need to do or have and why.
Whether you are employee or employer, make sure you feel the practical progress, that is, e.g. once a week you can have status session, where you can show that now you have something that you didn't have at last session, and that it is important step for the end goal.
Try to dig what a thing actually is, not what people say it is. Write down your current understanding with a date, so you can see years later how wrong or right you were. True learning is ugly route. Refine your own definition/understanding to be real-world bullet-proof. You need to be less-wrong over time. Use your bullet-proof learnings to build something, and don't let all the faux renduntant new ideas or manipulative generated comments destroy it.
Try to explode different things, so you can see clear boundaries of each separate thing and to minimize redundancy.
Try to map the depencency graph of a thing. Every higher level thing is a make file / spreadsheet cell DAG.
Just like Fossil vs Git, SQLite vs $SomeRealSQLServer, I wish someday Althttpd would become a no-bullshit self-contained replacement for Nginx/Apache/whatever bloated HTTP servers. It has already proved its working by serving Fossil/SQLite, but configuration/features for serving actual web site is not yet "real production quality", at least that is how I feel.
Overall, what an amazing legacy this set of software has been to the world.
Real life is the new forum of 2026, just like Roman Forum 2k years ago. You can see, feel and communicate with the reality as it is. Go find people and talk to them, and maybe you will meet someone with whom you can have a discourse of your life. Observe how the emotions of yourself and the other person(s) change during discourse, because they reveal hot points: limits, pain points, dreams, un(knowingness) etc. Learn/listen and teach/speak.
I don't like at all. My experience for iPhones is iPhone 6+ (which was amazing), then I've been at Android world (Sxx series), and now I have iPhone 17 Pro Max, and truly wonder what is the value proposition here. Feels really buggy, UI tries to be Jolla-like gesture-based, but fails to do that, default style reminds that it is made by/for a kindergardener. And there is no "home" button anymore, that resets my virtual position to something safe/familiar, now I'm trying to swipe up/down/left/right, and there is always some new screen layout.
On the macOS side, it gets more locked and buggy and inconsistent with every release.
This is just a general comment for Apple OSs today, not specifically version 26.2.
These kinds of cases just triggers all the rage for me, be they true or not and whatever is the actual case.
I have fresh experience of setting up Azure/M365 and AppleDev for my startup. Those things are scary as f*uck, in many perspectives:
(1) Dark patterns everywhere (click this checkbox and we'll buy you a license, oops +xxxxx €/$ per year just came; get one-month trial for O365 to get bizaccount, select 1 license, see that there is 25 licenses (~ 4k €/$) to be renewed if I don't cancel).
(2) Microtransactions everywhere (e.g. Azure VM SSD I/O: every read/write operations costs), DDOS and 10/100 k€ bill coming. Everything "scales", especially bills. And no billing caps, of course.
(3) Codesign with Microsoft: I have option to wait weeks for freight ship to ship USB cert token (if it ever survives past toll/postal service after that), or use AzureKeyVault, but that is officially only for companies that has taxes/accounting for 3 years of operation. So no startup can use that by this requirement to codesign?!
(4) AppleDev (and kind of Azure/MS too) requires DUNS number, which takes 6 weeks to get in normal case. Apple's 5 bizday route doesn't exist anymore (at least not for non-US-based companies). Or just use D&B magic link from Grok and get it immediately in 5 mins.
(5) If you base your business on Azure/M365 and AppleDev and be obidient and compliant (as I am doing/being, because I'm building real legit and long-term company, not some hussle project), it still doesn't matter, because they can just can decide by human/ML to shut your business operations and means of living. And getting answers like in the title's article's screenshots with those emojis are just the most non-human interaction that there can be done for affecting so devastatingly to someone's life/business.
These are the most disgusting things that I know of.
Make sure you eat your own dog food by doing your own company's accounting 100 % with your own product. Because if you don't dare to trust fully your accounting on it, why would anybody else.
Excel is a real CEO/CFO-grade tool, because the mental/simulated model stays local, stabile and personal, Excel rarely corrupts data (never happened at least for me, even with massive file sizes) and you can just generally trust it to get the needed job done with it whatever it is.
Yeah, I can't quit Excel. Every day there are spreadsheets open in my taskbar, even right now :)
And what comes to original article, there is no "text [systems]" (or there is, like there are "number [systems]", just made up). "Text" like this very thing you are reading is 2D drawing. There are no character glyphs of any kind (latin, logograms etc.) defined by universe*, they are human invented and stored/interpreted at human collective level. Computers don't know anything about text, only "numbers" of some bit width, and with those numbers a system must be created that can map some number representation to some drawing in some method (e.g. with bitmap). Also there is a lot of difference between formal/executable and natural human languages. Anyways, it's not a about some text format/encoding, it's the human/computer defined/interpreted non-linguistical meaning behind it (Wittgenstein).
* DNA/RNA can be one such "universal character glyph/string", as the "textual" information is physically constructed and interpreted.