As an amateur app dev using on device AI: If they replace Apple Foundation model with Gemma 4 I would be so happy.

I’m curious like what performance if we met you would expect and why?

Probably vibe coded. I use StopTheMadness to prevent it.

Did you not run phpMyAdmin in the 90s/2000s? Nobody was that secure back then.

Yes, I did.

But I've always used SSH port forwarding to access everything except pages intended for public viewing...

Their motives are to make the best product to compete in a very competitive market.

They're trying to make the product sticky while they're still subsidizing the subscription price. The plan is to raise prices when you're addicted.

Right.. and their definition of a "best product" is theirs, not mine and probably not yours.

…the best model for agentic coding, is the top goal right now.

Good example. AFAIK they are still focusing on doing this via larger models which is a bad call. They are also focusing to hard on fully-agentic coding which, while useful to a limited extent, is not the best way to use AI for most non-trivial coding tasks.

Yeah, fully agentic coding just takes too much knowledge out of the engineer. It’s a lazy man’s button to do work and yield average results. Fun for vibe coding and not reliable enough for enterprise where quality matters. Maybe their focus will pay off in reliability, maybe not.

No, because handing a project over the wall almost always ends in disaster. The requirements are never clear enough.

The author doesn’t address: A good engineer spends little comparative time coding versus other tasks for established projects. A good engineer understands the system end to end. Offshore developers are worse than Llama3.

0% chance this spreads rapidly in the first world.

Make it a distributed compute problem like GIMPS and let the crowd solve it.

IBM is reinventing itself, no? From mainframe maximalists to purchasing HashiCorp, Red Hat, Confluent. All to capture enterprise for years to come. It seems as if IBM is making a comeback.

If you read their annual report they bet the farm on RedHat and Kubernetes. They spun off their legacy services business and have basically have monopoly power over the Federal government, banks and defense contractors. They have been buying out other Kubernetes vendors such as Kubecost. They are are pretty focused now, we will see how well they will do long term.

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