i don't think any american would celebrate if trump was killed by a foreign army bombing the country.

Whereas french did celebrate US planes bombing nazis on their soil.

Some would; you see some in this thread. But only a fringe, thankfully.

speak for yourself.

Why can't we have normal politicians anymore, anywhere on the spectrum ? They're all racing for stupidity, it's simply terrifying.

i've been through a few hype cycles as well, but this one looks just as big as the invention of the internet, at the very very least (IMHO it's much much more than that).

My way of coping with it is to just go with the flow and learn all the new technics there is to learn, until the machine replaces us all.

My mom (in her 80s) used to ask me "what do you think comes after the internet?". It seemed nonsensical, but here we are.

From her perspective:

1. Radio

2. TV

3. Internet

4. ?

Interestingly, I (in my 20s back then) also asked the question in the early 2000's.

I had a CS background.

all stores in general are going to suffer. There needs to be a new model.

random fact : duke nukem had this weird configuration bug where maxing sensitivity on the microsoft sidewinder strafe axis could make you go much faster than possible by moving in diagonal ( the sum of strafe + forward combined to a larger vector). That lead to everyone in our cybercafe buying one :)))

still no way to check your email from teams though.

There's no way to check my tire pressure through teams, either. That's a good thing.

Let applications do a thing. The more we duplicate the crappier the original and the duplicate get.

Why would you want to do that? Outlook is perfectly fine, and on Windows it’s easy enough to toggle between the two windows.

because the whole range of the microsoft suite (word, excel, visio, rtc) is accessible from teams.

looking at the feature parity page, i realized how big openclaw ecosystem has become. It's completely crazy for such a young project to be able to interface with so many subsystems so fast.

At this rate, it's going to be simply impossible to catchup in just a few months.

Idk this seems to be gaining momentum and with devs being able to leverage their skillset via vibe coding anything seems possible really.

Not my experience too and i'm on claude code. I'd be really curious to see what when wrong in OP case. Maybe too much indication ? Could it be that it used a fast model instead of the deep ones ?

No, OP said he used the Max Opus 4.6.

Anyways, I think one area where Codex and Claude Code falls short is that they do not test the changes they made by using the app.

In this case, the LLM should ideally render the page in a real browser, and actually click on the buttons to verify. Best if the LLM test it before the changes, and then after so that it is the same. Maybe it should take a screenshot of before the change, then take a screenshot after. And match.

I asked why Codex and Claude don't do this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46792066

Yeah, if you have these tools in place to validate it's changes you can quickly iterate with it to the right results. But think through how it's making UI changes and it becomes obvious quickly why it can make absolutely wrong and terrible guesses about the implementation details, it can't _see_ what it's doing, or interact with it, it's just pattern matching other implementations its seen.

Yea, the next breakthrough for Codex or Claude Code would be to actually use/test the app like a real human would during the development process.

Here's a document produced by Claude Code using my Showboat testing tool this morning to help explore SeaweedFS (a local S3 clone) - it includes trying things out with curl and getting screenshots from Chrome using my Rodney tool: https://github.com/simonw/research/blob/main/seaweedfs-testi...

You can easily do this, at least with Claude Code. Ask it to install and use Playwright to confirm rendering and flow. You're correct that it is a failing to not do this. When you do, it definitely helps cut down on bugs.

EDIT: Sorry, just noticed you said "real browser". Haven't tried this but Playwright gets you a long way down the road.

Will check it out. Looks like there is also chrome-devtools-mcp for Codex.

FWIW, I've found Playwright tests to be a decent way of getting Claude to do what you're talking about.

See the /chrome command in Claude code.

They say explicitly what model they're using.

Are there any software engineer\quality assurance\any other IT related unions in EU? How do I join one?

At least in France, the general work legislation is generous enough that people in the industry don't feel the need to unionize. We've got 5 weeks holidays per year, plus additional ones if your work contract has more than 35hours of work per week.

Needless to say, burnouts are pretty rare. When they do, it's mostly because of toxic management which can't fire you because of legislation, so they just make your life miserable until you snap. I've also seen it happen in some startups where people have to take super long holidays after a successful exit because they've worked insane hours. However it was mostly self inflicted.