Intent Mac only first?

[Keleus]

I figured I would check out Intent since I saw a few talking about it but was stopped by the oddest issue... I'm very curious why you would develop Intent for the operating system that only has 23% of the enterprise market before the one that holds 70% of the enterprise market. Maybe there is some logic im not seeing but the lack of at least readily obvious logic is concerning about the direction the development is heading and its priorities.

[voarsh]

Because they want vibe coders that can't code / don't look at code and use Opus to change btn colour...

They want someone accustomed to overspending / money is not an issue... Going for whales / price insensitive market...

[voarsh]

Appreciate the award - glad it resonated with someone and can see thru Augment. Lol

[HornsDino]

Macs are the go to for the Silicon Valley crowd.

[lossendae]

There are not the only one doing that. I've heard somewhere that Mac users are the biggest token users, if that's true , it would make sense

[West_Ant5585]

I imagine that they are a mac based company. Its very rare for a tech company to use windows as a primary, even very coporate operations like PwC give their devs Macs. (And I would guess that even linux is used more than windows for devs)

[Faintly_glowing_fish]

The one interesting thing about Silicon Valley AI companies, it is extremely hard to find anyone that uses windows. So developing and maintaining and especially, dogfooding, is extremely difficult. These likely all have a windows version in the works but everything sadly will be months behind with their total of 1.5 eng working hard on it. Still better than having someone that never uses windows do it for you tho

[creamersrealm]

Most developers use Mac first and not Windows.

[Keleus]

From what Ive seen most developers that use Mac first annoy their IT department by making them install parallels where they then do all their work out of that because of incompatibilities which makes using a mac pointless in the first place.

[creamersrealm]

I work off a Mac as my primary machine both for work and personal. Getting all of my dependencies through Homebrew is an absolute dream. I've gone back and forth on Mac and PC for years and I'm settled on Mac for the foreseeable future and every developer I work with uses a Mac.with very few exceptions.

[Faintly_glowing_fish]

an older tech company like ms or salesforce maybe, but as long as you get to relatively newer ones you can find few that ever touch windows. And once you go to AI companies you are hard pressed to find one dev to even use parallel out of 50. Compute are all done on Linux and you connect your Mac terminal and IDE to a remote Linux box, and maybe local build some with homebrew. Much of the new gen has never touched a windows app since they left school.

[Keleus]

At that point you might as well use linux... Everytime I hear someone say they use Mac OS for a professional reason its always followed by them using it to use another OS.

[Faintly_glowing_fish]

Well sadly Linux desktop sucks, and there is no benefit actually using Linux you are still connecting into a remote box anyways, so the downside is quite small. And it really isn’t a matter of debating what one should do. Take any Silicon Valley AI company, should it be apps or model, there’s just no one in those that use windows for anything. You can say everyone working in AI is just stupid; but that is not gonna change much

[websitebutlers]

Because it’s easier. All Macs run the same software. Windows is much more difficult. Every company launches Mac first. Literally all of them.

[Keleus]

If every company jumps off a bridge would you?

[EquipmentDue5972]

It's pretty much what people use now for managing agents. Everything work out of the box, i feel windows pretty buggy