It's interesting that I'm only seeing this kind of anti-ai tendency only in American/Western art circles. Anywhere else in Middle East/Asia, artists are having fun experimenting with it.
> Claude Code is the best autonomous coding agent.
If you look at the [email protected] leaderboard, you'll quickly see it's actually one of the weakest agentic harnesses. Anthropic's own models score lower with Claude Code than with virtually any other harness.
So it's quite the opposite. Claude Code is arguably the worst harness to run models with.
I've had this exact experience. I used gnome for just one week before getting a macbook and after 3+ years of MacOS I still its find multi desktop handling absurd and unintuitive.
What makes this worse is that Apple's refusal to expose any public APIs to control workspace behavior so you can't even work around their shitty choices.
Instead of iterating on existing functionality, they launch flashy additions like Stage Manager only to abandon them immediately.
The chat interface has regrettably become the universal mold for LLM interaction. There are no dissenters. Every provider has the exact same experience. Just off the top of my head I can think of more than a dozen different features that would make LLM interactions infinitely more intuitive and efficient.
I think it's a very shallow response to "The desktop metaphor must die" and doesn't address the core questions that it raises.
> The desktop metaphor is still unmatched when it comes to productivity
Well, duh?
Of course it dominates productivity when we've spent fifty years building every tool, workflow, and interface around it. It's better than anything else, because there isn't anything else! It's like saying horses were the best transportation in 1800 because all the roads were designed for them.
The article also sets up a false tablet vs. desktop dichotomy and overlooks that tablet OSs inherit the same PARC-era WIMP assumptions.
For a more thorough critique of the desktop paradigm, I'd recommend the Liber Indigo (https://youtu.be/As_SiWqC5tc?si=_rKuZQN22ZkbqGvW) video series on youtube, which does a stellar job highlighting these foundational problems.