I develop C++ software for Windows and couldn’t understand the point of this

Nevermind, this was probably a team meeting some KPIs to show value, this is useless.

Non-french might not realize that we have a huge free software community of france, made up in large part of communist state-funded scientists / researchers. They do a lot of cool stuff, you can see a few projects for example on Framasoft who has the explicit goal of un-Googling yourself : https://framasoft.org/en/ https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/

That said, having technical solutions isn't enough to replace USA / private solutions. The answer has to take into account the economical, social and political situation

Developers do want managers actually, to simplify their daily lives. Otherwise they would self manage themselves better and keep more of the share of revenues for them

Unfortunately some managers get lonely and want a friendly face in their org meetings, or can’t answer any technical questions, or aren’t actually tracking what their team is doing. And so they pull in an engineer from their team.

Being a manager is a hard job but the failure mode usually means an engineer is now doing something extra.

You need to add (official) extensions for that though. Which makes VSCode more flexible

Wow, I can even chat about C code with that model with LM Studio on my Macbook at 200 tokens per seconds

Haha, we never trained it for chat but I would bet it works regardless.

Also that's crazy, M4 Mac?

M4 Max 128GB yeah

I’d say you’re right because I have a custom 404 page returned by the robots.txt route and I’m well indexed by google

Sonnet was already very good a year ago, do open weights model right are as good ?

Fwiw Sonnet 4.5 is very far ahead of where sonnet was a year ago

From my experience, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 (not flash, full), Mistral Large 3, and DeepSeek are all about Sonnet 4 level. I prefer GLM of the bunch.

If you were happy with Claude at its Sonnet 3.7 & 4 levels 6 months ago, you'll be fine with them as a substitute.

But they're nowhere near Opus 4.5

I love jQuery and it’s elegant methods chaining over object / array of DOM elements you keep in the chain.

15+ years ago I wrote a tutorial for french people about using jQuery, it got a lot of views. I hope it helped spread jQuery.

Look at Deno + Fresh which is based on preact. You can do a lot with preact only

   Coordination is almost free in a ten-person startup. It is still relatively easy in a forty-person company. 

I find coordination difficult even for two / three persons for any given topic where there the tree of dependencies (of sub tasks or others topics related to it) isn’t trivial and there are unknowns to research. Unless those persons are doing the same thing and are constantly communicating, which is very expensive