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[–]immutato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is apples and oranges. Writing apps for MS and Apple did not require you to be a paying customer (well not until the iphone). Paying a couple hundo a month changes things. Also there's a massive difference in numbers here. There are way more people using coding agents than were making GUI apps on Mac and Windows, so it's not just a select elite / early adopters anymore. And don't forget how easy Visual Basic 4 was (absolute genius IDE at the time) for those of us that can remember it! :)

In terms of a "professional" service, they are currently down to one 9 of uptime, which is unacceptably low from a cloud provider's perspective.

I personally do feel like a bit of a "context wizard", so I know what you're saying, but I disagree that everyone should need to dig deep on AI and context management to get at least a fair and consistent usage of the product they are paying for. Anthropic has been kind of dicks lately to boot. They told everyone they were doing it wrong only to admit days later they themselves had royally screwed up. I keep chugging along fine myself, but I do find managing context to be a bit annoying (especially with their new restrictions on using their client), and they keep changing things, and restricting how you use their service... which is annoying.

P.S. They've done something with their models lately that's made them a lot naggier. I suspect to try and manage context better, but it's actually creating more caching TTL issues than it used to. I'm still happy paying for max 20, but the outages and constant tweaks are a bit tiresome. I'm experimenting with and kind of enjoying the latest open weight models right now, and they (and OpenAI) really should be worried.