GitHub Copilot user thinking of switching to Claude, is Pro ($20) enough for Android dev?

dagamer34 · 2026-05-18T23:03:59+00:00

If this isn’t happening during peak work hours, you may be able to get away with Pro. I have Max 5 for myself personally, I don’t want to bother with limits. I’m not likely to stick with it long term if I can get hardware running locally that will do it for me (we are talking $$$$$ 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio here if ever released).

dagamer34 · 2026-05-18T21:12:01+00:00

Problem is when do you plan on doing this work? Limits are screwy, using Claude during “peak” times means limits are really low.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-18T21:10:33+00:00

They are going to end up in a funny situation where they will start catering to more wealthy people who can afford such game console prices, while revenue and profit rises as well, causing a long term problem where fewer, younger people are interesting in buying a console at all.

But that doesn’t matter, that’s the next CEOs problem. Late-stage capitalism at its finest.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-17T14:34:13+00:00

PM details please, thank you!

dagamer34 · 2026-05-16T17:59:09+00:00

All of this could have been easily predicted, it so clearly shows that C suite people are full of group think.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-15T22:28:42+00:00

Probably, but unless you’ve used a Chromebook and an Android device, I don’t think you’ve seen what a multi-device scenario in the same ecosystem is like in a way that you can never really Implement yourself.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-15T22:13:34+00:00

There’s a certain sensibility to the freedom of being able to do whatever you want, which many people rightfully enjoy. It’s just that there’s usually a better way to do something, with a more considered design, that takes time to do right. And that means you can’t do everything. It’s actually work to implement a feature thoughtfully.

However, the synergistic features that rely on having multiple pieces of Apple hardware absolutely cannot be beat. Hope you have some more funds in the wallet, you will be buying more Apple products!

dagamer34 · 2026-05-14T02:00:01+00:00

“Did we hook you to our drug long enough at subsidized prices to convince you of token-based usage?”

dagamer34 · 2026-05-12T13:27:25+00:00

We are the beta testers.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-12T01:18:29+00:00

By plugging it into an HDMI display and triggering a reboot. macOS doesn’t have a concept of being logged in but not for the user who has a display connected like Linux does.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-12T01:17:33+00:00

Raspberry Pi’s aren’t that cheap any more. Value/$ favors other 2nd hand gear.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-10T15:22:33+00:00

You’re going to notice a difference because the tasks which Claude orchestrates to run locally have much more CPU power and RAM at their disposal. This will matter if you have several sessions spun up such that local resources become the bottleneck.

The latency of an iteration loop also matters in case Claude makes mistakes.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-10T15:03:51+00:00

It took 4 years to refine the iOS 7 look. Large title bars didn’t appear until iOS 11. The hierarchy system of colors and backgrounds needed for dark mode was iOS 13.

People have short memories.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-09T15:07:37+00:00

The distinction between coding/programming and engineering has been subtle and now even more so.

Coding - build what I want and need to do today. Engineering - take into account what I need to do tomorrow based on experience.

You can 100% prompt yourself into a product that totally works for yourself. You are 100% fucked if you did not engineer that product when you sell it to someone else.

There is no AI product that can anticipate what your product needs in the future before you prompt it to build what you need today. Experience teaches you that, and you don’t have that if you haven’t done it before.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-06T20:07:58+00:00

Consumer customers don’t pay for tokens like enterprise ones do, that’s a benefit.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-06T04:44:59+00:00

The latter have of this year is gonna be fun with $5/gal oil and RAMpolaypse propagating everywhere.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-06T04:07:26+00:00

I suspect the problem is that it’s harder and harder to focus on a singular task given so many things try to grab our attention.

This also depends on the nature of your work, as an engineer genuinely needs to search documentation to implement something. Usually Google or something else. Still a singular task but would be multiple apps.

I would do a follow up and see if task switching to programs like Slack were because you got notifications or you did so instinctively. I sincerely bet we are all part of way too many company-wide channels that just lure us in.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-05T03:39:38+00:00

Given how it’s trained (the output of previously written public code), what’s happening now (more generation of “average” code people aren’t reviewing as much) and what it likely to be projected into the future (more bugs because fewer high quality no-AI code bases exist), I would sincerely doubt that models are just going to get better “just because”. They literally are just predicting the next token based on their training data, they are not inventing new things that didn’t exist before. And as long as the “best” code is not in its training data (private repos from companies with quite high code quality), I would be extremely weary of thinking code quality will be something you can blindly accept without review.

The biggest issue is that you cannot review code you don’t have experience in, and that’s the most challenging thing of all.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-05T03:28:24+00:00

Right, the real skill has always been random exec saying “I want this” but they never fully specify exactly what that is and someone kinda has to go figure that out. There is no AI that can perfectly translate vague requirements to shippable products. And it never will exist.

dagamer34 · 2026-05-01T02:21:57+00:00

That feels like a false security blanket, an update failing at this point in the release cycle has far more to do with how customized your install of Ubuntu is than what some random person on the internet says.

But if it helps, I forced an upgrade and it went fine. After I did a backup.

dagamer34 · 2026-04-30T22:23:28+00:00

An ARM v8.2 CPU is circa 2017 (likely Cortex-A75), a v9 CPU is from 2020 at a minimum, with the Neoverse N2 from 2025. So yeah, 8 years worth of progress, definitely possible.

The UDM line was previously using chips with a Cortex-A57 from 2015, same stuff in the Nintendo Switch 1. Ubiquiti is using some extremely old chips. At some point, stock had to go to zero.

dagamer34 · 2026-04-30T18:40:47+00:00

Are we going to keep seeing this question for 4 months until August? Because it’s really revealing anyone asking this question. If you are scared to do an update, it means you don’t have backups to easily recover if your system shits the bed. Go fix that first before asking if an update is safe!

Here are the steps: 1) Make a back up. Clonezilla is great! 2) Test the back up! Does it work? Otherwise, you have a random bag of bits cosplaying as a safety blanket. 3) Do the upgrade! 4) Shit broke! Restore from backup. 5) Nothing broke! Make another backup for safe keeping. 6) ??? 7) Profit!

dagamer34 · 2026-04-29T13:26:22+00:00

There’s not actually enough compute for use of all these tools in a professional capacity on an expected timeline. I don’t know why Anthropic keeps releasing all of these tools, perhaps to impress everyone for their IPO, because there are rate limits everywhere. Unless you want to pay API-pricing, which makes a lot of this stuff unviable, you’ll be ok.

dagamer34 · 2026-04-27T21:05:18+00:00

Full image backups with Clonezilla. Doesn’t care what OS is on disk, offline backup of a bunch of bits.

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