> What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust

The first unique characteristic is that it was built in Rust? Why does it matter from a user perspective? I was expecting the first point to be something that would convince me to check it out.

Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software. I got a bit confused.

Looking good regardless :)

fair critique. i'll refrain from it in the future.

but i will say that the point of our post isn't to really sell anyone here or on anything. we kinda know that our product as-is isn't ready to use at real scale (we lack issues, prs, ci, gotta fix a lot of bugs, etc.)

we did just want to sincerely share what we built. and rust is a part of that, we chose it cause we wanted to learn it and we then quickly found out that we really liked it too.

While we're critiquing, the demographics that I'm part of has trouble taking someone seriously who is too lazy or sloppy to use the Shift key and complete punctutation.

I hate that too, of course, but as long as it doesn't creep into the actual product or website itself, it doesn't really matter.

At least they aren't using five digit years...

And after looking at the site more, I have to say I'm pretty interested. It is a nice-feeling site. There's a few UI oddities that need to have the rough edges sanded off, but I very much like the main approach.

totally agree we should not tollerate lack of shift key use and punctuation

The demographics I'm part of have trouble taking seriously people who yell at kids who live two blocks away when someone from one block away wanders onto the yard the kids are playing in.

I worry that what they’re trying to say is that it was vibe coded but vibe coded in a language with a pretty solid linter.

What an irony that those exact safety guarantees that made it attractive are now a detriment because they make the project smell like AI.

> Unless the goal is to find people to collaborate on building the software.

Surely it is at least in part. We're talking about the announcement of a new open source project that isn't ready to use yet which would presumably enjoy people helping make it work for them, and a new startup around that open source project that is likely to be hiring in the future (or even maybe right now? Didn't check).

> Why does it matter from a user perspective

It implies that there was likely a small degree of rigour in the construction... not a large one (very little software has that)... and not a guarantee... but likely more than the abysmally small average in the software world.

I am tired of "built in Rust" as an argument, you are spot on, it should not matter. But you are shooting right at Rust culture here haha

And I'm tired of the "tired of 'built in Rust'" arguments because it also shouldn't matter if someone happens to describe their project that you didn't have to go out of your way to talk about in a way that bothers you. But I'm shooting right at the "tired of 'built in Rust'" culture here.

You can take these arguments to an unbounded level of depth; someone can be tired of my responses to the responses to so me someone happening to care about something different than them. It's all equally silly, and if you're convinced that your level of depth is reasonable but the others aren't, I'd highly recommend trying to think about why you're so confident that your opinion is important but ones that come after aren't, because it's very unclear to anyone who doesn't already agree with you, and that's usually a sign that there's no point in saying it at all.

That’s a supply and demand issue. If there were more clients than lawyers, I can totally see a reality where they speed things up because now in one week they can work on 20 cases instead of 2, thus 10x more money, but as you said, it doesn't seem to be the reality of the market.

edit: tldr; it does not seem in their best interests to be more efficient at this point

This is so cool! I'd love for it to have a front-page-like layout where "trending" news would have a bigger placement in the UI

Anyway, great work :)

> This article doesn't address writing code with AI, just code review. My issue with agentic coding is that I make numerous micro-architectural decisions while programming. I almost never have a full spec up front and develop one as I consider what I am writing.

working with AI forced me to write better specs but the way I write today is very different. I typically open Codex and have Linear MCP connected where my chat with the AI will end up writing the issue. Its a lot of back-end-forth where I tell what I want, the AI does all the code scanning, write something, I correct something, etc

The value for me is exactly that I tell what I want, the AI verify in the actual code if that's the path that makes more sense or not. In the end I have a pretty detailed spec that I'm much more confident is the correct path.

I find the spec easier to review than a huge PR so typically when executing is much faster and aligned with what I want.

The grill-me skill from Matt Pocock is great for this (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/blob/main/skills/produc...)

I hate video calls, but sometimes is so much easier (and really faster) to align with someone over a complicated issue. feels almost counter intuitive but the more complicated the matter the easier to align over voice / video than text in my view

I have almost never needed video but certainly a voice conversation is much, much faster for two or three people to work something out.

Four+ people and someone is either being held hostage to others and/or just tuning out. The more participants, the more of this that’s happening. And that translates pretty directly to lost time, money, and focus.

I don’t think Teams supports it, but it would be interesting to see studies where orgs go “max participants = 4” without high level approval.

Video meeting invites shouldn't even include people who are there just for FYI stuff and aren't expected to give their opinion.

They can just read the AI transcript of the meeting - or the minutes if someone writes them.

I think it depends on the person. For me, for example, text work best for any kind of question, no matter how complex. On the other hand, for simple questions, when I just want to chat, I'll opt for a call or meet in person.

“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.” ― Charlie Munger

I’ve heard that using a VPN might cause in a ban. Considering they probably use an LLM to determine if you're a bot or something, you got unlucky with a possibly Haiku 4.5 hallucination ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anyone still use claude design? I’ve not seen any mentions on X, here or youtube recently, so wonder if it was all hype or people are actually using it.

Hype

That's the thing, right? I would not be surprised if they have an agent that bans accounts that do chargebacks on them even when they're wrong. So you either accept it if you have to use it for work or you risk and deal with the possible consequences.