Switching models is too easy and the models are turning into commodities. They want to own your dev environment, which they can ultimately charge more when compared to access to their model.

They’re afraid their customers will switch model provider in the future, so instead they made them switch now.

They want to be the next JetBrains.

Parent isn’t insinuating otherwise. They’re saying the subscription model is more lucrative, so eventually they’ll remove the one time payment option, but keeping it as an option for the announcement keeps the bad PR at bay.

How so?

where's the proof of the claim? for one the privacy policy contradicts.

“Worse” is fully dependant on what you’re looking to get out of a product. I consider anything Google/Meta to be about as bad as it gets because I disagree with their business practices and value my privacy.

So that definition does not cover "privacy"? Where does one look up the definition of "worse" you're referring to?

Their level of “polish” extends to dangerous, unreliable levels of automation.

For anything enterprise related, I would avoid Google and their automated account bans without the possibility of contacting a human tech-support agent like the plague.

You pay for a SaaS solution to remove worries to your day-to-day, not to add more things to worry about.

ah yes, the polish that keeps begging you to give them your address for your "own safety"

the polish that can't even delete your entire spam folder half the time

the polish that asks you to verify you own your own email address via email if you want to add an alias to send an email from your own domain (e.g: if you have wildcard inbox and want to reply from one of the addresses you used)

the same polish that gives you no results if you search "one" and the email actually contains "oneword" - you know, search, the thing google is known for.

such amazing polish.

It’s far from impossible, you just have to prioritize your privacy at more than a few bucks a month.

Nothing would make parent happier, but they've placed a very small price on their happiness.

I think this is a very privileged statement when looking at affordability of many countries. For example 40 euros a month is out of reach for much of Albania.

If it was just privacy it would be an easy sell but there is nothing close to a fully functional alternative then Microsoft.

Or in this case have a look at the Google Graveyard and/or those many stories of users that lost access to their Google account without any way to contact an actual person that could help them.

There's certainly a lot more JS code out there to train on, but the quality of the Elixir code is likely overall much better.

You use AI to write your blog?

yes, for example this article including charts and summaries were generated by AI. https://jonathanclark.com/posts/ai-coding-million-lines-2025... Typically I act as an editor rather than a direct writer with cursor now replacing word

I'm sorry to be harsh, but honest question - What's the purpose of using AI to create toy software that already exists (eg. YouTube downloader)? Normally the purpose would be to learn how to create that type of software, but that's presumably being skipped.

Similarly... what's the point of blogging if you're not writing it yourself? This post is very long, but seems to basically just be riffing on the title over and over, at least by the 3rd graph. If you're not explaining anything and readers aren't receiving anything - what's it for?

I really am asking with curiosity even though it's probably clear I have an opinion on this endeavor. There must be a reason you've paid money to do all this!

For me, it is about learning about what AI can and can’t do, how to progressively prompt, how to avoid problem, etc. once you understand that you can build more things quickly. I gained a pretty good understanding of what it can/cant do, how many prompt it will take to get there, and which model(s) are capable.

But then we've come back to the central point. The purpose of blogging is to organize your own thoughts, essentially. Why not write about what you've learned?

> the purpose of blogging is to organize your own thoughts

I don't get this comment. People can create content for any number of reasons and those reason will vary widely by the author. I like to use it to share something interesting to me that is too long for a Linkedin post.

Well actually you're right that blogs can have different purposes, however I think we're talking about basically the same purpose here, in "sharing something interesting to me", and what I meant is that I wasn't seeing how AI writing is actually doing that. But I'll leave you be, I'm not here to harass you and I think I've gotten the answers I was looking for.

See Simon's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46011877

Yes that's exactly what I had in mind asking these questions.

I don’t understand why people drink orange soda. If you want something orange flavoured, eat an orange! If you want something bubbly, drink soda water!

.ex compiles to beam files to be run later

.exs compiles to memory

You don’t need to know Erlang to use Elixir; I’m a few years in now and I’ve never had to write any Erlang.

in the past i would have said learning to read erlang is a very nice to have for an intermediate elixirist but not really anymore, an LLM can translate between the two very easily.

That's true. Even so I would still recommend that you learn to read Erlang because of its unique approach to various software development challenges. It will simply make you a better programmer. The same goes for LISP and possibly Forth because they have some very powerful concepts unique to those languages which you can mimic to some degree in other environments to get some of the benefits.

After reading your replies here it seems like your attitude might be a contributing factor in your inability to pass interviews.

Yup