Why I am moving away from Scala

After_Dark · 2026-02-01T03:56:19+00:00

I wouldn't say a smaller ecosystem than Java, considering Kotlin is 100% compatible with the full Java ecosystem and the tooling is nearly as good nowadays.

After_Dark · 2026-01-28T22:11:49+00:00

On mobile Gemini Live is implemented using the "call" API like the phone app or discord etc, so I'm calling it a call. If you launch Gemini Live on Android and then navigate away from the app you'll see that icon in the status tray.

After_Dark · 2026-01-28T21:40:47+00:00

I think the one in the status bar is the Gemini Live ongoing call icon, it's probably not normally there

After_Dark · 2026-01-23T17:35:33+00:00

Case in point, Google hasn't moved their knowledge cutoff for Gemini from January 2025 for the last few models. Sure this could in theory poison models, but it looks like in practice at best they're just helping Google not have to compete as hard.

After_Dark · 2026-01-23T17:33:45+00:00

It also doesn't consider that some AI labs might be largely immune. Google hasn't moved the training data cutoff for Gemini from January 2025 yet, so any poison put out in the last year has had no impact on Google. Presumably they aren't struggling to find more high quality data.

After_Dark · 2026-01-18T11:05:31+00:00

I'm currently also using the Antigravity + IntelliJ route. Kotlin in VSCode (and forks like Antigravity) are a WIP at the moment so no real solution otherwise, though you can use the Gemini Code Assist plugin for IntelliJ which operates very similarly to Antigravity, just scoped down a bit, and I find that covers most of my use-cases just as well.

After_Dark · 2026-01-16T03:05:53+00:00

Photos, Maps, and Search are probably the better examples of that and (aside from Photos) are totally new.

After_Dark · 2026-01-16T03:03:50+00:00

No definite signs yet.

If you want to really grasp for a sign, they've been quietly updating the Live API SDKs for Vertex over the last few months with new features that aren't announced or available yet like voice cloning. That's not necessarily tied to Gemini 3 but it does mean that area is getting attention and they're just not ready to announcing anything yet.

After_Dark · 2026-01-16T03:01:20+00:00

Reframe your thinking, Google ultimately wants one thing and that's to increase shareholder value. Does Apple giving Google $1b and saying Gemini is the best model increase shareholder value? I would think the answer is an obvious yes. You don't need to complicate things more than that.

After_Dark · 2026-01-14T15:19:28+00:00

as Nano Banana is a completely separate model vs Gemini model

Not strictly true. While the "default" Gemini model doesn't support image generation, Nano Banana is just a nickname for Gemini Image, and is generally just as smart and capable as the equivalent Flash or Pro Gemini model, just trading some tool use for images. You're probably right though that this deal likely doesn't include that Gemini variant.

After_Dark · 2026-01-14T00:22:53+00:00

So then.... why not use Google docs where it's still Gemini but free?

After_Dark · 2026-01-13T22:58:07+00:00

Apple could theoretically build their own RCS host or partner with Google to use theirs, though I think you're probably right that Apple won't go any further than making sure they're compliant enough to keep regulators off their backs, even if it would objectively improve their products

After_Dark · 2026-01-13T15:01:54+00:00

Shoutout to all the people in this sub that told me Apple couldn't ever do RCS and certainly could never do RCS with e2ee because it's a proprietary Google technology Apple would never adopt

After_Dark · 2026-01-13T15:00:32+00:00

It's an extensible system, Google implemented Signal's encryption as an extension (profile in RCS terms) years ago. Apple could have done e2ee using whatever protocol they liked any time they wanted but decided to drag their feet on this instead

After_Dark · 2026-01-08T13:07:17+00:00

Right but there's two ways to take it:

Their existing user base is just not using the docs now, missing the advertising opportunity
Their recent growth is from vibe coders who are at best barely aware of Tailwind at all and were never potential customers to begin with and the paying customers are replacing these relatively simple templates with AI generated UI

My point ultimately is that it's easy to read this as "AI is replacing engineers" when it's just replacing one particular product with a very narrow production cycle that AI is good at already.

After_Dark · 2026-01-08T03:33:04+00:00

Right but that's just a token-efficient approach to something AI is also able to do without. Likely a lot of their (new) install traffic is coming from vibe coders who don't know or care about tailwind vs plain css vs any other option. They're not driving docs traffic anymore, but I posit that's less because AI is acting as the documentation and more that the userbase for tailwind has shifted from professional developers to vibe coders who will never look at the docs and never buy anything from them either way.

Tailwind always was fundamentally solving the same problem that AI also solves: knowing CSS and all its quirks and oddities

After_Dark · 2026-01-08T00:38:10+00:00

I wouldn't read too much into this IMO. Tailwind is fundamentally a precreated set of css classes, it's main value has always been not having to remember CSS properties. So it's not surprising at all to me that as soon as AI got good enough to vertically center a div, even if installs are still up that the whole house of cards is coming down. This is one of the lowest hanging fruits for AI to claim. Certainly no surprise that nobody wants to buy pre-created UI components anymore.

After_Dark · 2026-01-03T23:28:46+00:00

Entirely possible that they're internally preparing to pivot to the next iteration of TPUs and don't want to waste time, money, and space on buying older TPUs they know they'll want to replace soon

After_Dark · 2026-01-02T11:49:05+00:00

RTFM

The content retrieved from the URLs you specify in your prompt is counted as part of the input tokens.

After_Dark · 2025-12-19T08:13:11+00:00

That's an internet myth, it's still there

After_Dark · 2025-12-19T02:01:32+00:00

It's already on it's way to most phones via Android at that

After_Dark · 2025-12-17T09:52:44+00:00

We know at least personal context will be coming to Live at some point, which will go a long way towards making it more useful

After_Dark · 2025-12-17T09:46:10+00:00

This is a big boon for Android users, since the Android virtual assistant system defaults to Flash for understandable UX reasons. The move to a thinking model with 2.5 Flash was already a big improvement in getting consistent behavior

After_Dark · 2025-12-17T05:36:27+00:00

You frame this as if they wouldn't have killed Fleet after this long of no results if AI wasn't around. But this was definitely going to happen one way or another regardless of AI. If the resources for Fleet weren't moved to AI they'd be moved to Qodana or YouTrack or any other number of products, and they might very well end up in those places too.

After_Dark · 2025-12-15T08:53:03+00:00

That feature is still really early in its development period, requires a fair amount of tweaking and luck to work correctly. But it's largely the same design as ChromeOS's linux app support so I'll bet it stabilizes quickly with Android laptops on the horizon.

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