You are assuming that there's something bad about everything you believe being false. There's a fair amount of evidence that it's a good thing. EG religious people being happier and living longer
I think it's really interesting that Void (and Zed) are both much more tastefully designed than Cursor, Windsurf or VSCode (though I wouldn't have expected VSCode to be well designed)
There's a double space on this page: https://www.otherbranch.com/for-engineers in "arbitrary black box" and it's really annoying me, but I can't see anyway to tell anyone about it
> Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? [Something has changed that I don't like]. What is this bubbling feeling in me? An emotional response? No way. I am rational. Therefore these changes must be objectively stupid and dumb and wrong. Let me explain why.
I certainly do this a lot.
I'm going to put that paragraph on a postcard and put it up in my office to try to remind me about it.
(It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon).
Creating "a system in which you consistently increase the number of miles you run" is pointless if it doesn't get you to the point where you can run the marathon on the day that it happens.
How long you have until the marathon would determine what kind of training schedule (system) you create.
> You can’t simply start training today and run a half marathon tomorrow, for example. You can, however, create a system in which you consistently increase the number of miles you run.
The marathon will be on a specific day, ie a deadline. If you haven't finished your training before the day of the marathon, you fail.
> HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text.
On this definition, Word and Excel are just (zipped) plain text files.
> Every device, including ones long gone, and ones not invented yet, can read and edit plain text.
This definitely isn't true, and it kind of misses the point that there's no such thing as "plain text". It's still encoded in ascii, or utf-8, and still potentially has problems being read on other machines.
It's reasonable to say that ascii has become so ubiquitous as to be universal, but it definitely wasn't always so, and won't definitely always be.
But that wouldn’t answer the question. Why is it not profitable to make good kettles?
Also, you’re wrong. The people designing these kettles aren’t doing so to make more money for their company. If anything you could say that capitalism optimises for job security. That’s why you don’t see new features on kettles, and why no one will make a left handed microwave. No one wants to take a risk