I disagree on the semantics Cross Platform does not mean that it has to be Cross (Every) Platform. As long as it crosses multiple platforms it is Cross Platform. Other than that I agree with the sentiment.

Honestly i think that now is the chance for established software to go with the flow and I think the major way to go with the flow is create are adapt software to be extensible (so that everyone can let claude or opencode or whatever add their functionality of choice without having to rebuilt the wheel from scratch everytime) and secondly direct mcp access to the software itself.

Interesting perspective for me I find it more interesting to learn the transferable skill set behind using this kind of software. Sure I can make a software that does exactly what I want when poked but then I do not learn any transferable skills.

I am generally happy to pay for my software that I use. However I do not have the money to shell out for some of the professional grade software just for a hobby. And I also do not enjoy paying hundreds in subscription fees acumulated for things i use once a month. So these AI Clones popping up are realy helping me, as I do not need the full featureset of the original usualy and these AI Clones are close enough for my hobby applications. Additionaly these tools all run on linux which makes my move to Linux etch closer into the present. Some of the tools were a reason I was not switching.

I will still continue to pay for the things i truly get value out of and are in my opinion reasonably priced. To support the creators.

Are you using them? They all seem to be broken and UI (so they can post on HN/twitter) is the only thing that matters.

Seems unlikely that people are going to spend their Claude sub every month maintaining the thing either. They'll move onto the next cheap LLM project and dedicate their tokens to that.

Im sure that's not every project, but Id rather just have something reliable with a reputation. AI clones are killing open source's reputation for me, I just dont trust anything now.

Not to mention how easy it would be to get a malicious PR approved into a public repo who's maintainer relies solely on the competency of a cheap llm.

there are some I actualy use semi regularly these are mainly GeoLibre and Open CAD Studio. Completely fine for all I need with it. I am currently trying SolidCraft but still deliberating.

ArtCraft is also pretty cool but I have my Affinity Photo 2 Licenses so I do not realy need these currently.

So, no money for the modeling tool but enough for a range of dewault/milwaukee/makita tools and the raw resources (wood, screws, glue) etc ? :)

If it was crocheting, I would get it, but woodworking is not an inexpensive hobby where the software becomes the top line item.

It's true that tools and materials are expensive with woodworking, but I end up designing a new piece of furniture (pretty much variations on a box) maybe 1-2 times a quarter. I'd much prefer using a native desktop application over the clunky web-based Sketchup UI, but at ~$33/mo it just doesn't provide enough value to me as a hobbyist.

KetchUp/BenchUp seems promising -- I was able to import a file from Sketchup Free and navigate around, but the polish just isn't quite there yet. This should improve quickly I think.

I am not doing woodworking though? Privately I do 3D Printing.

This here I would also use at my job whera I am a bit of a Jack of all trades so once a quarter I need to sketch some model of something to see if it would fit or not. Example would be right now i need to sketch a simple collision protection for a outdoor cable tray (for Solar Pannel Strings). Gonna not take me longer than an hour. I do not use it enough to justify spending 40 Bucks a Month 4 times a year.

Ah, cool. Never mind then :)

Its just that often times, even us programmers seem reticent to pay for software even though we happily throw dollars across the counter for a sugary coffee somewhere.

I know of sketch up primarily from DYI magazines, hence the assumption.

Well that is honestly a good thing in my book as long as everyone knows when a chat is public.

Maybe it should be put in Forum Mode only or something. Because just finding random chats is likely not going to be helpful at all.

It however brings disadvantages with it. Specifically if now instead of a forum you have to join five trillion discord servers just to get help with your one issue on "this niche product i use".

Interesting yet somehow dystopian. But more of a practical question how much do the tokens cost for you?

Its kinda like the arms race in the cold war. There came out some truly marvelous technologies but the actualy goals were frankly terrifying.

there is also quite enough fields in which AI generated code is just not even allowed to touch the codebase to begin with.

There surely is code so critical that not fully understanding every line of it is not an option.

That's probably the rare exception.

Even in finance everyone is using AI.

Satellites, everything space related. I assume in nuclear tech, military and aviation it is rather strict aswell.

They probably have very good financial cushions. One year of losses is nothing to a company like that.