I am constantly surprised how seldom aider is mentioned in threads like this. I understand that it's not directly integrated into the editor, but the "editor + parallel CLI tool chain" paradigm feels so natural to me because we drop to terminal for so many other parts of building software. If you haven't tried it (particularly the architect/editor modality), it's worth a couple of hours of experimenting.

Aider doesn’t provide any interface that’s integrated into the editor tool, as you point out. That might be true for other similar side-by-side tools that I am not aware of.

But, if you tell aider to watch your files, you can drop a specially formatted comment into your file, and aider will see that and use it as a prompt.

So the integration is sort of “implicit”. Which sounds kinda like the cheap way to go, in comparison to the current brand name tools that have their own chat boxes, dropdowns with mode selectors (ask, edit, agent), and so on.

But look further into the future and an ambient interface is probably where we end up. Something where the Ai agent is just watching what you do, maybe even watching your eyes and seeing what you’re attending to, and then harmonizing its attention to what you are attending to.

But I dunno, i’m just guessing

Tight editor integration means better diffs (right in your editor), easier context manager, and other convenience features that CLI-only tools can't have.

This doesn't mean that aider, claude code, etc. aren't very good tools, but it does make sense to distinguish between built-in tools vs external ones. A similar non-AI example is debugging or linting: IDE integration makes it much easier than using a separate tool.

I like to imagine as if we threw something into the air so hard that it went up for 26 years, then came back down for 26 years.

That's exactly what happened, except it went around the world a million times too.

The best part about Kagi is that if the default results don't seem helpful, one click restricts results to only discussions and forums, which is usually exactly what I want to do next.

Google supports that too. After searching, click “Forums” in the top bar.

As my income drops in slow periods, I pause subscriptions to many things. The very last two I would be willing to give up are (n-1): YouTube Premium and (n): Kagi.

Switched to nebula when they removed YouTube lite and the price was double. Got no ads on my devices anyway.

For me, YouTube Premium (for family) is so worth it because:

- It removes ads for my kids, which are going to watch YouTube no matter what I do

- It includes YouTube Music, so I don't need a separate Spotify subscription

- It sends money to creators based on what I proportionally spend time watching, rather than based on how valuable of an audience I'm deemed to be when an ad slot is auctioned

- It is a signal that I'm willing to pay for content, and I want platforms and creators to continue offering that option

Rather send money directly to creators rather than filtering it through Google.

People just don't do that. If they did, the state of things wouldn't be the way it is. It's also kinda unfair to creators whose content people consume but just don't pay for in any way, because of a variety of possible reasons (they just don't even think about it, or they don't deem them "worthy" of being paid, or it's about having to go out of their way to pay someone, and then people only paying a limited amount of "chosen" people, etc.)

That also is a factor in why I pay for more than I need. I want them to succeed.

Personally, I would still love a site-by-site "reject non-essential cookies" prompt from an extension that's in the same place, with the same UI, on every site. Still a click, but lots better than having to figure out how to accomplish it on each and every site.

Exactly. The biggest pain is to read and figure out what the next button actually does. Is the big Button an except all? Use selected? Or what ever wording they use. I might not want to block cookies for certain pages. So an extension that finally creates this single UX flow would be very helpful indeed.

Exactly. So you could have 2 shortcuts: one for reject all non essential, one for accept all.

Much better UX than figuring out per site which button to click.

Why would you ever accept all? The options should be reject all non essential and reject all (may break something)

Tax wealth above $100 million at ~90% upon death.

In other words, make all the money you want, get as rich as you want, but it goes back to the commons when you die and can't use it any more.

That is an estate/inheritance tax, not a wealth tax as discussed.

The top 50% of earners in my household pay 100% of the bills. How is this fair?!

Oh wow you owe it to yourself to try aider then. Architect mode especially, where you use one (usually reasoning) model to plan and one (usually Claude) to write code, is pretty awesome.

My approach has been to purchase books from bookshop.org (or directly from the author if that is an option), and then immediately go find a DRM-free backup copy to send to my e-ink device.