Comment by danbmil99
8 hours ago
As others have noted, you sound about 3 months behind the leading edge. What you describe is like my experience from February.
Switch to Claude (IMSHO, I think Gemini is considered on par). Use a proper coding tool, cutting & pasting from the chat window is so last week.
Instead of churning on frontend frameworks while procrastinating about building things we've moved onto churning dev setups for micro gains.
The amount of time spent churning on workflows and setups will offset the gains.
It's somewhat ironic the more behind the leading edge you are, the more efficient it is to make the gains eventually because you don't waste time on the micro-gain churn, and a bigger set of upgrades arrives when you get back on the leading edge.
I watched this dynamic play out so many times in the image generation space with people spending hundreds of hours crafting workflows to get around deficiencies in models, posting tutorials about it, other people spending all the time to learn those workflows. New model comes out and boom, all nullified and the churn started all over again. I eventually got sick of the churn. Batching the gains worked better.
> churning dev setups for micro gains.
Devs have been doing micro changes to their setup for 50 years. It is the nature of their beast.
Where do people on HN meet these devs who are willing to do this sort of thing, and get anxious about being 3 months behind the latest and greatest?
In my world, they were given 9 years to switch to Python 3 even if you write off 3.0 and 3.1 as premature, and they still missed by years, and loudly complained afterwards.
And they still can't be bothered to learn what a `pyproject.toml` is, let alone actually use it for its intended purpose. One of the most popular third-party Python libraries (Requests), which is under stewardship by the PSF, which uses only Python code, had its "build" (no compilation - purely a matter of writing metadata, shuffling some files around and zipping it up) broken by the removal of years-old functionality in Setuptools that they weren't even actually remotely reliant upon. Twice, in the last year.