What's the pain?

I'm guessing the pain of fighting the various build systems that insist on dynamic linking, sometimes against the user's explicit wishes.

You don't need to go that far back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

I think all versions after Win 7 have sucked.

I jumped straight from 4o (free user) into GPT-5 (paid user).

It was a generational leap if there ever has been one. Much bigger than 3.5 to 4.

Yes, if OpenAI released GPT-5 after GPT-4o, then it would have been seen as a proper generational leap.

But o3 existing and being good at what it does? Took the wind out of GPT-5's sails.

What kind of improvements do you expect when going from 5 straight to 6?

Europe.

Setting aside that it's a continent with widely varied tech scenes (UK vs Sweden vs Netherlands vs Greece vs France vs Bulgaria; the startup scenes in some of those are pretty impressive and if they had the same amount of capital thrown at them, they would rivaling SF), even the most legaciest of legacy companies (think 200 year old insurance companies or similarly aged industrial concerns) are modernising everything. Yes, there is more employment stability on average, and you won't get fired from a big bank for being slightly behind the bleeding edge, but if you refuse to learn and there is no static niche you're already good at (e.g. mainframes), you won't have a good time.

There is an upside though, you won't have to set up a GoFundMe if you get cancer.

lol what? Nowhere in the blogpost he states that he is based in the netherlands.

Wait, Cortana doesn't exist anymore?

It doesn't (but it seems pretty much every Windows install has it installed, and if you try to open it, it just tells you that there's no Cortana anymore.)

BTW. They did the same with Maps and the PDF reader: the two apps I used the most on my Windows tablet. An "upgrade" replaced the app with a nonce. That just made me so incredibly angry.

What IDE/CLI tool do you use?

I used Gemini CLI and a few rounds of Claude CLI at the beginning with stock VSCode

:%s/There model/Their model/g

I personally jumped ship from Claude to OpenAI due to the rate-limiting in Claude, and have no intention of coming back unless I get convinced that the new limits are at least double of what they were when I left.

Even if the code generated by Claude is slightly better, with GPT, I can send as many requests as I want and have no fear or running into any limit, so I feel free to experiment and screw up if necessary.

You can switch to consumption-based usage and bypass this all together but it can be expensive. I run an enterprise account and my biggest users spend ~2,000 a month on claude code (not sdk or api). I tried to switch them to subscription based at $250 and they got rate limited on the first/second day of usage like you described. I considered trying to have them default to subscription and then switch to consumption when they get rate limited, but I didn't want to burden them with that yet.

However for many of our users that are CC users they actually don't hit the $250 number most months so its actually cheaper to use consumption in many use cases surprisingly.

c) Those of us who've been using Linux for a decade, but are forced to use Windows in our day job because of MS Office/Proprietary VPN client that only runs on Windows/other program that doesn't run well on Linux.

> Proprietary VPN client that only runs on Windows

Out of curiosity, which one? I haven’t encountered a single-platform VPN client in years. Even Microsoft’s built in VPN client is just standards-compliant and interoperable IKEv2.

Forgot the name but at my last job the Linux client was something like "use this exact in-house patched .deb of $software in version X on Ubuntu Y/Z" - and that's all that worked, nothing else.

Kinda indistinguishable from "only runs on windows"

Watchguard with SAML login. I've read that one can use OpenVPN when logging with username and password, but it doesn't work with SAML.