Parent comment has the rhythm of an AI comment. Caught myself not realizing it until you mentioned it. Seems like I am more in tune with LLM slop on twitter, which is usually much worse. But on second sight it's clear and it also shows the comment as having no stance, and very generic.

@dang I would welcome a small secondary button that one can vote on to community-driven mark a comment as AI, just so we know.

do you use it with git worktrees? or how do you handle multiple claudes?

I use jj workspaces, which are pretty similar to git worktrees. But 95% of the time I just use one Claude.

Not working on it (yet), but I wish the jj <-> github story was a little more ergonomic.

Additionally, I am really missing support for stacked diffs, ie, easily pushing a number of commits into one PR on github each such that they all show their incremental diff.

ezyang's gh stack was pretty useful, if a little bit fragile [0] and graphite.dev is also very nice, but paid software with a strong VC based motivation to become everyone's everything instead of a nice focused tool.

[0] https://github.com/ezyang/ghstack

I'm also not super happy with the default 3-way merge editor, but often cannot use vscode or other GUIs.

https://github.com/LucioFranco/jj-spr is one way to get stacked diffs on GitHub with jj, but also GitHub has at least claimed on X that native stacked diffs is coming so we'll see how that goes!

Thank you for pointing to these details!

You're welcome! And as you pointed out in your other comment, it's a bit frustrating when someone tries to sow doubt on well-established facts.

This stance strikes me as questionable, to use the first hunch that comes to mind to seed doubt in a topic that is researched and reported by multiple fairly reputable sources and multiple people on the ground.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that this is LLM written slop that is badly edited by a human. Factually correct but the awful writing remains.

how so? sound like you are running Kimi K2 / GLM? What agents do you give it and how do you handle web search and computer use well?

Skimmed through it; mostly reading the paragraphs above each picture. The irony of which is not lost on me :)

Really enjoyed the part talking about Tolkien. It reminds me of my own LOTR experience: I finished the trilogy in three consecutive summers in the hilly countryside of Italy near Rome. The first summer I made it through the fellowship of the ring with a lot of patience and trying for the slower moving parts. The summer after that I started over and read book 1 and 2, and in year three I felt I was finally in sync with the pace of the book and enjoyed reading through book 1, 2, and 3 in a few weeks.

I recently switched a bunch of friends from a project-oriented whatsapp chat to self-hosted mattermost, because I wanted permanent storage for messages and attachments, and threads, and did not want to pay slack in perpetuity.

I feel that this idea is now in jeopardy, if I understand the 10k message history is the limit correctly.

And there I thought I had a solution to slowly bring over project channels, family related things etc. that was as reliable as "my linux box will be reachable on the public internet" and I am willing to manage that it does.

Seems I was wrong, but I don't know which other software has better future proofing.

So I guess it's my turn today to start the holy war. If Whatsapp was enough, but you want it to live on your Linux box, Matrix will do just fine. self-hosting has been fast, responsive, low-maintenance, and easy for me over the past several years.

They're trusted by multiple government agencies to stick around and treat their users reasonably, and there are a plethora of clients to choose from.

Now I'll step to the side for the next person to tear me down and sell you on XMPP.

Given that I've been using a self hosted Mattermost for 6+ years, I haven't heard of either Matrix.or XMPP...so will now need to look these up.

The next guy's job is to tell you XMPP is lighter, gen-er-ally viewed as simpler, with a wide array of clients and servers, optional encryption, and with a longer history (with that being viewed as rhyming with reliable).

My "job" in this holy-war thread is to tell you Matrix has become lighter over time, the "default" server Synapse has less, but IMO more up-to-date documentation with a real corporation behind keeping it up-to-date and useful, has a blossoming ecosystem of clients, servers, and bridges (allowing you to use it for other chat systems like Whatsapp and Telegram), has encryption being an enforced default for one-to-one mesasges (instead of XMPP's bolted-on after-the-fact extension), and a paid team to make Synapse more robust, reliable, lighter, faster, and more secure.

Take both arguments with a grain of salt, as I am biased as hell (to the point of donating a small amount monthly to Matrix, and starting flame wars like this one).

Thank you xethos, this has been exactly the kind of opinion and experience report that I've been looking for.

the one thing I really want beyond persistent over whatsapp is threads. I hope matrix has a similarly trivial app/web/pc story as mattermost has, because the other users are not necessarily able to handle anything more complex than "download an app and sign in".

In theory https://element.io/en/download should provide an equivalent experience.

I'll have a look into what the transfer story from mattermost->element looks like.

Merry Christmas! This is why I like hackernews.