The Clever Dripper is indeed a really neat invention. One of the old school specialty coffee guys in my city did recommend it. I have yet to move away from my french press though. I don't mind the little bit of extra effort of the french press.

since you're in the EU (I assume), check friedhats.com for some fancy roasts

EDIT: oh, and if you dont mind - what was the cheap grinder you got?

I used a French press for many years and loved it but in the past few years I've started to prefer lighter roasts and I think the Clever dripper does those a bit better. I also think that the Clever is a tiny bit more work than a French press, not less. I'm happy to have both options, and also my Hario Switch on occasion as well.

I think the Coplit plugin is probably the closest thing to an AI IDE that actually works. As per my other comment, I don't actually use any IDE to begin with, but one of my coworkers who uses VSCode has been very fond of the latest iteration of the Copilot plugin.

From your description of how this plugin works, I see why it works so well. It is basically just focusing on the essentials (populating the appropriate context) and then does as best as it can to get out of the way ( <- this part is really important I think)

I don't use IDEs to begin with. I use a text editor, since I am a UNIX man. So, I don't even have a reason to look at the "AI" flavor of an IDE. The closest thing to an AI IDE that I have tried out were tools like AIDER and Jack's "goose" agent. Neither of those specialized tools has been satisfactory. They all performed worse than just the LLM IMO. I am sticking to crafting my own context that I supply to the LLM. Tools like Simon W's `llm` tool help A LOT to be more efficient at using LLMs in a daily setting.

I'm mostly on the same page, but jumping into a new project with a not-so-familiar language has been made much less painful with Cursor. Regular anthropic chats spew nonsense most of the time and are disappointing, but Cursor really seems to be useful.

Of course it also gets stuff wrong and everything needs to be properly validated, but it's a nice tool to try out.

I didn't know Unix users were not able to use IDEs. The more you know /s

Edit : Sarcastic

I don't know about Unix users, but perhaps, instead, it is they are able to not use IDEs.

I like to laugh at myself a lot but this made me really giggle. Well phrased!

Not true and if only then by choice.

VSCode/Cursor run natively under Linux.

It obviously wasn't obvious enough but I was being sarcastic. My fault anyway, pre coffee.

Fair enough... Honestly, I wasn't using Cursor for a long time because I thought that, as a MS project, it wouldn't be available on Linux.

I use VS Code on Fedora Silverblue.

Yes. CUDA is still entrenched due to its ease of use when compared to specialised AI hardware SDKs.

OpenMP is still a thing in 2024, but I presume that is not the kind of scale you are asking about.

If you have MI accelerators, you'll be using ROCm anyway (although AMD contracted Andrzej Janik in 2022 to make ZLUDA run on AMD GPUs. I have no idea what the practical applications of it are at the moment.)

The only other serious challenger (apart from the existing GPU manufactures like AMD) who is trying to give Nvidia a run for its money is Tenstorrent and their TT-Buda software kit.