A lot of comments on this talking about how an AR/VR product would never make it but I think a lot of people fail to understand just how badly Apple failed to meet existing VR/AR developers where they are. Apple told us all to learn Swift and port our projects or pay thousands of dollars in Unity licensing costs to ship our existing projects to the new platform. Was incredibly heartbreaking to realize I simply can't afford the fees to put my XR projects in the App Store despite having iOS & XR experience and already being part of the developer program.
We're 2 years into it and one would expect they'd incentivize the hell out of making sure this niche device has all the gates wide open. You can't have a walled garden if it's just wall.
Where are all the fascinating weird experimental trippy spatial computing concepts that we were supposed to see emerge. Where are the drone interfaces, the medical simulation applications, the training paradigms. New forms of entertainment, I mean least they could do is ensure that one awesome AAA game Half-Life Alyx had been ported over for this thing.
Both can be true. The current form factor of VR headset is too cumbersome for daily use. And Apple being Apple, they made a beautiful Ferrari that has no wheels.
I believe most people would consider the Rolls to be a more comfortable ride compared to a Ferrari, what about a Countach? Awkward to get into and painful for anyone taller.
>"Apple failed to meet existing VR/AR developers where they are. Apple told us all to learn Swift and port our projects or pay thousands of dollars in Unity licensing costs to ship our existing projects to the new platform."
The thing is there's still no actual platform for AR, and Apple took probably the very best shot at giving us one. Your other options are Meta's pile of React garbage "Horizon OS", or Android... which is Android. Sure Steam is great on the PC, but it's been proven pretty conclusively at this point that tethered devices are a dead end for niche hobbyists. Like it or not, visionOS is by far the only viable platform moving forward after Daydream and Fuchsia were abandoned.
That's the sort of thinking that killed Kodiak and ibm and xerox. There's absolutely a better way to do this platform. Apple just cannot bring itself to make another mac. It has to be another iPhone.
"To fill the gap, Wristen is hiring teens as apprentices right out of high school.
'They’re new. They don’t even have a set of tools,” Wristen said. “It’s usually about four or five months of hell where we have little mistakes that cost us time and money. It’s fixable. … And once they are trained in it, you don’t have those little deals anymore.'"
Oh wow, you mean you have to train apprentices in the trade if you want to have enough workers around to meet demand? My brother is IBEW in the PNW and had a lot of classmates that trained by working for data centers- he always framed it as a pretty sweet deal, some of those companies would even cover the cost of tools for new apprentices, you earn them as you progress through the program.
If you're going to rely on people you have to invest in them- if you're only willing to pay $20/hr for pre-trained people, don't expect them to show you any loyalty in return.
That's exactly what I fear- that Mythos/Glasswing has made anthropic confident that they can survive by only serving that type of customer. Would be sad to see.
FWIW their "Fin" agent on their web page tells me:
"Claude Code is not included in the standard Pro plan. It's only available with premium seats on Team and Enterprise plans.
However, Pro plans do include improved coding capabilities through our GitHub integration, which lets you connect code repositories directly to Claude. You also get access to code execution and file creation features in the Claude apps.
For the full Claude Code terminal experience, you'd need to upgrade to a Team or Enterprise plan with premium seats"
Yes, confirmed directly from Anthropic's website. Claude Code is included in the Pro plan, described as perfect for short coding sprints in small codebases with access to both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.7.
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Is claude code included with the pro subscription
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Claude responded: Yes, Claude Code is included with the Pro plan ($20/month).
Yes, Claude Code is included with the Pro plan ($20/month). You can use it in the terminal, desktop app, VS Code, JetBrains, and on the web.
The main caveat is that Claude Code draws from the same usage limits as your regular Claude chat — so heavy coding sessions can eat into your quota faster. If you find yourself hitting limits often, the Max plans ($100–$200/month) offer significantly more headroom.
Claude Design was iterating on the plans page and decided to remove clutter and their review bot LGTM’d it as “minor copy change human review not required” and auto-merged it.
I think it's odd to say that pressing to disk was more permissive of bad code. Releases like Cyberpunk suggest the opposite- that development teams selling games that can be updated take that into account as they plan and release, and the quality suffers upon launch for it.
Yeah I understand what you mean. For bad code in that sense, I'm mainly thinking back to games work colleagues have worked on (in the era when patching wasn't possible) where horrible one-time hacks and weird workarounds get quickly thrown into a codebase under deadlines and crunch just to get things fixed, platform certified, and shipped. Games in the past were more often using in-house/proprietary engines too where this would happen too under pressure. With patching ubiquitous, QA still have a really difficult job especially with nearly every release being multi-platform.
If you are a student/young engineer, this piece of advice is some of the best you can get: "...thinking of people with the binary of "technical" and "non-technical", you definitely will be missing insights and most likely, you're not listening properly."
Especially for interns within large multifunctional companies- I have seen a hundred times over how some very bright engineers will start to sniff out who they have decided is or isn't technical and try to avoid the non-technical team members. You might get some kudos from other engineers but it won't compare to the praises analysts will sing when they finally get the technical attention they have needed for a year or more.
Free to do what? Sit on a beach, apparently. Every single one of these people wanted to sit on a beach. I've never understood this. Have they been to a beach? There's sand. It gets everywhere. You can sit there for maybe three hours before you want to do literally anything else.
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I laughed out loud when I read it, because it's so true.
I think its pretty obvious that "sit on a beach" is a metaphor for being able to do whatever you want not literally sitting on a beach for the rest of your life.
At the same time, you guys really can't imagine relaxing on a beach for more than a few hours? Like i'm not really a beach person but back when i lived near the ocean i spent the odd saturday just unwinding on the beach with a book. Certainly wouldn't want that every day, but y'all acting like it would be impossible to enjoy say abeach vacation for a few days seems crazy to me.
A home on the beach is seen as an expensive status symbol.
House maintenance costs in sea air cost at least double. Appliances and aircon rusts and corrodes. Everything needs regular painting.
Cars rust out. I buy second hand shitters and replace them every ~5 years. Certainly not worthwhile owning anything collectable or precious.
If you want a garden, be prepared to spend twice the time and money and, perhaps plants and trees still struggle or die.
I live in New Brighton in Christchurch, mostly because it is cheap housing (for no reason I can understand). Plus the coastal wind from the sea avoids hayfever (town is irritating for me).
It has a good community. Many people that choose a beach vibe are relaxed and friendly.
These companies can't just pull out of a state like Arizona very easily even if they wanted to. Many of the major tech players have a presence in Tempe or Scottsdale- not to mention the defense work that happens throughout the state. AZ is no California but it's silly to act like it's an economy tech is ready or able to easily write off.
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