Still working on Val CMS: https://val.build
Lots of PRs merged these last weeks and looking forward to getting native tanstack start integration finished.
This has been my theory for a while: during this autumn Apple will release a version of Apple Intelligence that runs locally and works better than ChatGPT. They will do this because 1) they do not have an offering in AI yet 2) they have amazing hardware that even now almost can pull it off on open models and this will not be possible to replicate on android for a long time (presumably)
This will crush OpenAI.
Note: I am not talking about coding here - it will take a while longer but when it is optimized to the bone and llms output has stabilized, you will be running that too on local hardware. Cost will come down for Claude and friends too but why pay 5 when you can have it for free?
Cool! We also build client-server sync for our local-first CMS:
https://github.com/valbuild/val
Just as your docsync, it has to both guarantee order and sync to multiple types of servers (your own computer for local dev, cloud service in prod).
Base format is rfc 6902 json patches.
Read the spec sheet and it is very similar :)
What sets it apart is that it 1) stores content in TS / JS files 2) is a fully fledged CMs.
It is designed to be nice to work with from the start a project (and the structure of your app changes all the time) -> when everyone works on individual PRs -> to the end when the project is decommissioned.
It needs no cloud APIs, no DBs nor caching. No query language to learn. No sign up to get started.
It is fully TypeSafe and needs no type generation. You can rename and refactor content from you IDE.
It works amazingly with Cursor and friends (local content and schema + strong typesafty + validation)
Currently reqs are: Nextjs and GitHub.
APIs are pretty stable. UI is in the process of a revamp.
Will do a proper show hn some time in the near future.
> It's entirely possible that we do become obsolete for a wide variety of programming domains. That's simply a reality…
It is not a reality since it has not happen. In the real world it has not happened.
There is no reason to believe that the current rate of progress will continue. Intelligence is not like the weaving machines. A software engineer is not a human calculator.
I really liked this article. I think all of these points, in particular the conclusion of cost vs benefit could be the same whether you were talking about formal methods or web apps. This way of seeing things, with an engineering perspective, is the exact same we (at least I) see it but we mostly do web apps.
So cool. Have wanted to add an extra battery on my Yuba Spice Curry, but it is so expensive. Love the fact that it is possible to replace the individual cell. Been annoyed that ebikes are not as serviceable as normal bikes. Signed up now :)
I do that (via termux) with a onyx max boox 3. Works pretty well. I had some quality issues (got 2 dead lines on 2 devices so far) with the actual device but support has been very, very supportive so far so globally I'm very happy