The history of IDEs is so strange.

So true!

At some point frontier models will face diminishing returns, local models will catch up, and we will be done being beholden to frontier models. That will be a wonderful day, but until then, you will not know what models will be capable of unless you use the best. Pay through the nose for Opus or GPT-7.9-xhigh-with-cheese. Don’t worry, it’s only for a few years.

Sad, but true.

use a fresh VM

There have been done interesting UI changes here recently, with things backing that underneath I assume, but still entirely true.

Read the whole thing.