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@mitchellh @karrisaarinen Fair enough! I use ghostty every day so appreciate any direction you plan to take!

@Dustin2023 @karrisaarinen We have a plan, I just didn't want to detract from my personal message around GitHub. The blog post discussion would've turned into discussing the merits of where we were going vs the motivation for leaving. We're close to the move, probably this week or next.

What is unclear to me is what people actually want some new GitHub to be. To me, the biggest challenge GitHub has always had is that it is trying to serve two very different worlds. On one side, it is a social network around code and open source. On the other, it is infrastructure for companies building software. Those two groups operate almost in opposite ways, so the product has always been some kind of compromise between them. Because those users are so far apart, it can fail both of them in different ways. Inside a company, you mostly just want to review and merge code. You are not discovering new code, and you are probably not forking things. You may have a monorepo, a known team, and a trusted environment. What you want from GitHub is efficiency and safety: PRs, review, ownership, CI, Actions, tests, security checks, and a clear path to getting code merged. Open source is different. It is much more public and much less trusted. You need better ways to figure out who is contributing, what to accept, how to manage the project, how to handle issues, and how to maintain trust with people you may not know. So are people asking for a new open source code hosting and social network, or do they want better private infrastructure for software teams? Or both? I would never choose to build both from the start. I think every product gets better when it is more purpose-built and designed around a specific need. You could maybe imagine some nested model, where private repos have a much simpler and more focused mode, but you can still exit that mode and browse around the public space.

@mitchellh @karrisaarinen Understandable, but it doesn't seem like there's an actual viable replacement. I don't think I could have made the announcement without a plan of action. It feels like being hasty and I don't know that anything will change or anyone else will jump ship from it.

It’s really not my obligation to help a trillion dollar company. They have the resources to help themselves. I’ve been posting about their shortcomings for over a year and even posted exactly what I’d do if I were in charge. I can’t effect any change without power. I’ve got work to do I left (in the process of leaving).

@mitchellh @karrisaarinen This is where I think you should have refrained from posting that you're leaving and instead focused on helping GitHub to improve to where it could be. I don't think the alternatives hold water to be its replacement.

I have a draft blog post swirling around this exact topic (but not refined enough to publish yet). I think the key thing is I (personally) don't want a NEW GitHub. I want GitHub to be better. For example: - GitHub issues should be as beautiful and good as Linear - GitHub PRs should be as good as Graphite - GitHub Git infra should be as fast/minimal as Pierre - GitHub wikis should be more like Notion - GitHub discussions & shouldn't exist (multiple "better issue" providers including Linear show why) - etc. I'm not saying to clone those full companies outright, but their core product, arguably the core features, aren't even 2% as good as those external products. Maybe aim for 10% to start. There's the "oh no there's so much tech debt" argument. And I'm sure GH is on an absolutely mountain of tech debt. That's why in my prior twoots I've argued to just make them separate products to start only for agility reasons, unapologetically do not integrate with "old github." Net net startups beat encumbants all the time for reasons. That's just a product/technical POV though. GitHub also has a huge PR/marketing problem. They talk through corp speak, their marketing pages (e.g. the dot com) speaks to multiple personas confusingly, they have no singular visionary to look up or trust, they have nobody who makes the outward community feel seen. There's so much more here... I think for the human side, GitHub already has what it needs to be really, really, really good. It really feels like they just like fearless vision, and the courage/power to say "fuck you" to a whole lot of things that are distracting them.

@theo x.com/i/status/20500…

I sent a single message on Copilot and it did over 60m tokens. It's still going. $30 of inference so far. In their current billing model, you get 1,500 messages, regardless of how expensive each is. I'm pretty sure I can do $45,000 of messaging on this plan

@cinnamon_msft I think that's a nice feature, but these things happening now are not. x.com/i/status/20500…

GitHub Copilot CLI 🤝 any model I want youtube.com/shorts/oKAoMvA…

@theo It's getting out of hand at the expense of the users. x.com/i/status/20500…

AWS doesn't support OpenAI models (yet), but they do host Anthropic models. Opus 4.7 is almost 2x faster on AWS than Azure. I hope this trend continues when they support OpenAI models. Until this is fixed, there is no reason to run inference on Azure.

@theo I do the same thing for clean up time against one another! I also just got hit with this below: x.com/Dustin2023/sta…

It's so hard to describe the vibe difference between Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 (for coding) GPT is smarter and can unblock you, but it gets stuck in stupid ways and strangles itself with context sometimes. Opus will go down the most insane paths and refuse to acknowledge obvious answers, but it understands intent better and has more taste. Whenever I use one for more than an hour, I always reach to the other to "clean up". Best part? All of this changes every few weeks 🙃

What is even happening here @Microsoft, @github @Copilot I've used LESS than 1% of my monthly subscription and you're telling me I've hit 54% of my weekly limit?? It just reset TODAY. This is terrible and why users are leaving ... @theo have you seen this torture? #AI #Copliot

@cursor_ai Your Teams are killing it! Great work, nothing but constant improvements in Cursor!

Another way to parallelize work is with new and improved worktrees in the agents window. Run isolated tasks in the background across different branches. When you're ready to test changes, move any branch into your local foreground with one click.

Introducing /multitask in the new Cursor 3 interface. Cursor can now run async subagents to parallelize your requests instead of adding them to the queue. For already queued messages, you can ask Cursor to multitask on them instead of waiting for the current run to finish.

@FrameworkPuter @MechanizeWork 10 out of 10 😅

@MechanizeWork You should spend some of that to change your logo.

We've raised $9.1 million at a $500 million post-money valuation from Marco Mascorro, Adam D'Angelo, and Devendra Chaplot.

@FrameworkPuter This is absolutely the one to get! Congrats @FrameworkPuter! I'd love the chance to get a Dev Framework Kit Pro to replace my aging non-linux friendly MS Surface! Our FOSS repo is nearing 6,000 stars, MIT licensed! A new desktop experience, DMS! love to work with you all!

Framework Laptop 13 Pro is selling far above our forecast, and we've sold out of the first six batches already. Also nice validation of our approach, the Ubuntu configurations are outselling the Windows ones!

@claudeai Linux!

Download or update the Claude desktop app to get started: claude.com/download Explore everything that's new: #updates" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">claude.com/product/claude…

We've redesigned Claude Code on desktop. You can now run multiple Claude sessions side by side from one window, with a new sidebar to manage them all.

@cursor_ai Crashing and won't launch on Fedora 43 Linux. The only way I could get it to run: `cursor --no-sandbox`

The new interface is available as a separate window that complements the IDE. Update Cursor to try it.

We’re introducing Cursor 3. It is simpler, more powerful, and built for a world where all code is written by agents, while keeping the depth of a development environment.

@zacbowden @joebelfiore and @panos_panay were the lifeblood of Windows Phone and Surface. They should have been trusted more to continue their vision. Now Microsoft is a decade behind and the vision is dead.

Can we get back to building cool dual screen phones and lightweight versions of Windows now?

@asherdipps @SonnyDickson Why Asher it seems to line up with all the rumors.

@SonnyDickson Calling it now this is not accurate.

@zacbowden MS had their chance 1,000x over, unfortunately they dropped the ball.

They called it NEO?

@FrameworkPuter Framework for the Win in transparency and supporting their customers 🎖️

Other weird parts of the memory crisis: in most cases, it's temporarily cheaper to buy a pre-built Framework Laptop with Windows pre-loaded and wipe Windows off than it is to buy a DIY Edition with no OS, because we had memory and storage staged at our manufacturing partner.

@gus33000 Happy to hear! Can I ask what got you to this point of clarity?

at last I found peace with myself after 1.5 year

@CORTEZLIFTS_ @MostVpromotions Dang! Jake fought as a heavyweight and now this.

@Dustin2023 @MostVpromotions Yeah they most likely gonna meet in the middle and fight at either 154 or 168