I'm in a similar-ish boat here. I acknowledge that what I paid an LLM $100 to develop isn't as good as what if pay a human $100,000 to do, but it's "good enough" to solve the problem.

Is this a little free widget or a full commercial app? I can see privacy policies, cookie banners, pricing page etc.

Its a small tool thats completely free. Its just added on Kalerum, which is a full booking software. But the tool here is free ;)

Have you spoken to him about this? If he's clueless enough to send AI responses to human messages, he's probably clueless enough to not realise why people don't do that.

Better yet, get Claude to speak to him about it.

I'm amazed they're not sponsored by Apple themselves, or at the very least major mac-forward Dev houses.

If it wasn't for Brew, macOS would have no chance against Linux as a dev platform.

Apple developed — and for many years afterwards, hosted —- MacPorts.

Apple employees did. Not Apple themselves. As for hosting, it was hosted on an equivalent of SourceForge, where many other opensource projects unaffiliated with Apple were.

And we all know how MacPorts failed to actually gain any significant momentum.

No, Apple employees originally authored the project on Apple’s time.

And it was first hosted at OpenDarwin — which was Apple-run and not available for arbitrary public hosting.

It was then hosted at OpenDarwin’s successor — Mac OS Forge. That was also Apple-run and not available for arbitrary project hosting.

MacPorts was an Apple-authored and ultimately Apple-supported project for ~15 years.

As for momentum, the project is still going strong 25 years later, so I’m not really sure what you’re referring to.

> As for momentum, the project is still going strong 25 years later, so I’m not really sure what you’re referring to.

I am referring to a significant momentum. You know, like the momentum Brew has.

I think you're right - it's one of the reasons I prefer a mac as a dev platform.

To make an analogy: Imagine a patron gets banned from ordering alcohol at a particular establishment, because they got too drunk one time.

It's completely reasonable for the establishment to reject a request for an alcoholic drink, and suggest something alcohol-free instead.

It is not reasonable for them to say "sure, here's your alcoholic drink as you requested" and give them an alcohol-free substitute without telling them.

The fact that the patron broke the rules has nothing to do with it.

> It is not reasonable for them to say "sure, here's your alcoholic drink as you requested" and give them an alcohol-free substitute without telling them.

Your analogy doesn't work because: - they tell you the rules at the entrance of the bar - they totally tell you when they give you a substitute

The only issue is the bartender asking you for your money before serving you the drink really but again, this is known since day 1 by the customers.

Your rebuttle seems to be arguing it's okay for a bartender to simultaneously say:

"This is alcohol"

And

"Or maybe it isn't alcohol."

Or to rephrase it, "They tell you the rules at the entrance, they then tell you they don't follow those rules and they are totally serving alcohol even if they are not."

No they tell you at the entrance that at any point they may unilaterally decide to replace the alcoholic drink you ordered by a non alcoholic one.

You can decide you are okay with that or not but they aren't dishonest. I wouldn't enter that bar personally but if you do you cannot really complain. It is like complaining because you haven't won at the casino.

I mean, that's not really true either. Nobody is going to read the full terms of service, and they know that.

Non-paywalled: https://archive.md/yxYhU

And Mark Zuckerberg has even more powerful computers which he uses to fuck everyone over.

Honestly, LLMs been OK at adding features to software since around Opus 4.5. From what I've tried of Fable, it's a decent step up from the Opus models and I can only see things getting better.

Have run a few tests this morning, very good first impression!

Asked it to check to see if a particulr bug related to an in-memory cache had been fixed. Fable confirmed that the caching bug had been fixed, but found adjacent issue while looking at the code (hash keys were not uniquely generated per-user; quite serious and real!)

Ran the same prompt through Opus and it also found an adjacent issue, but it was a red herring (deliberate per-user hardcoded value for a "local pickup" delivery profile).

Frontend stuff also seems to be much better than before, from the one prompt I tried!

Is release confirmed for tomorrow?