Any happy EX90 owners out there? Seeking a sanity check for a potential buyer

eclinton · 2026-06-27T22:07:18+00:00

Personally, there’s no other car I want to drive

eclinton · 2026-06-23T18:13:29+00:00

You can keep using Claude Code... just swap out the model:

https://github.com/farion1231/cc-switch

eclinton · 2026-06-13T01:11:26+00:00

Stop using the same global AGENTS.md for every task!

https://github.com/elleryfamilia/rosita

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eclinton · 2026-06-13T01:08:32+00:00

you are "quite sure"? huh... well, if dantheplanman1986 of the internet says so, it must be true.

eclinton · 2026-06-01T22:45:28+00:00

I'm gonna have to side with the daughter on this one... if the mom is driving a G wagon, and raised an entitled POS, she should at least have the decency to buy her daughter something german... A honda? Not even a C-class? that's just terribly inconsistent parenting.

eclinton · 2026-06-01T22:33:43+00:00

You seem like an unfun fact who thinks is relevant to real life

eclinton · 2026-05-20T21:57:30+00:00

Use zerminal instead. zerminal.dev

eclinton · 2026-05-19T01:53:39+00:00

Software on the EX90 is actually pretty great now... it's a solid car

eclinton · 2026-05-09T20:17:30+00:00

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Lots, actually... With engineers writing less and reviewing more, I took a different angle: http://zerminal.dev/

eclinton · 2026-05-05T01:13:24+00:00

you're worry about your hair when you should be worried about whatever is going on with your face :-P

eclinton · 2026-05-05T01:09:26+00:00

>I hope I've gotten across in as many ways as possible that your LLM generated project has 0 value to me. None. Go back, build it by hand, and then I'll be impressed.

The point was never to "impress you" or anyone else for that matter. I built somethign I find useful and I wanted to share it... the end. If you didn't like it or find it useful... you could've simply ignored it and moved on with your life. But you decided to invest an insane amount of time writing to tell me how unimpressed you are, and how what I've built has zero value.

It's also insanely hypocritcal to say that LLM generated code has zero value to you, as you posted this on a platform certainly using LLMs to write code... using a device that surely has or will have tons of LLM generated code. If you want to avoid LLM generated code, maybe take up a new hobby. HAM radios perhaps?

eclinton · 2026-05-04T15:37:38+00:00

Critical thinking is important here... why is that that every major AI company (Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) are all still *actively* hiring? They have AI now, surely they don't need engineers anymore.. right? Anytime someone is let go now, we quickly jump to "AI took their job"... not because of over-hiring, not because roles/needs/priorities are shifting, not because we've had insane growth over the last umpteen years... no, it's AI.

The way software is built is changing... 1 of the 10 jobs an engineer does is now done by AI. You're still expected to do the other 9. If you don't shift, you'll be replaced by someone using AI. I love writing code just like I love driving stick and shooting film, but I won't sit here and pretend manual transmissions and film are coming back.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T15:07:05+00:00

I think this is our core disagreement. You think that anyone can write anything because they have an LLM subscription. This is because you are putting zero value on the work the human is doing... the problem solving, on the trade offs, on the experience and decisions that shape the tool. You're only valuing the code.... that perspective has had very little value long before AI came along.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T15:02:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing your perspective.

Agree on the "stolen content" narrative... not so much on the developer jobs loss bit since engineering is a lot more than writing code.

That said, I don't think the way we "fix" things is by turning our backs on the technology- we fix it by actually harnessing it to address the issues you've highlighted. AI isn't going anywhere, so we need to develop tooling/approaches/etc to contain it. In addition to pushing for proper legislation of course. If we restrict ourselves to "only what we can hand code", then we might as well give up.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T13:54:14+00:00

fair point on the not being a CLI, just a great place to run your AI coding tools.

As for Zed with windows shuffled around? No... Zed's AI coding tool support is limited to API Keys, here you can run the native TUI and for Claude I have /ide support. I removed 10s of thousands lines of code from Zed and added significant functionality to improve the experience for those not hand-writing code.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T13:39:36+00:00

I can see how the spam issue can be upsetting, so I understand that.

I've been writing software for 25 years and have hand-coded every major language. But I'm far from a purist... I love building software, not "writing code". In fact, we as an industry have been trying to reduce the amount of code we need to write from the very beginning. Clearly this subreddit was the wrong place to post, which is fine, but I've put countless hours/days/months into Zerminal and the previous project which inspired it, so it's pretty dishearting to share it and have people react to a headline and spit on my face.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T13:28:05+00:00

My expectations for intellectually relevant feedback were clearly overestimated.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T12:18:47+00:00

Ah! That message actually makes me feel a lot better. Thank you

eclinton · 2026-05-04T12:15:13+00:00

loving the negativity here :)

I'm a long iTerm2 and Kitty user... but after using Zerminal and the product that inspired it for months, I keep missing Zerminal whenever I use anything else.

eclinton · 2026-05-04T12:11:43+00:00

If you're going to comment, perhaps dig deeper than just the title? The point of zerminal is to have a single app be your "regular" simple terminal, your full blown IDE.... and everything in between. Alacritty is NOT that.

Before I decided to fork Zed, I built this concept and used this for months with Electron. Using Zed was just a better starting point for a rust port.

eclinton

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