They're providing beautifully made ebooks for free...

The only thing they are is truly, truly wonderful.

But why not be true to the original author's text? What's the need to modify it?

Not parent, but while I can appreciate your viewpoint, I would like to point out that many many many books have abridged, reworded, simplified, or disambiguated versions for different audiences.

The Bible is I daresay the most famous of these. Translations aside, even the English versions have had significant alterations done to wording, spelling, and meaning depending on the version.

There's also the Great Illustrated Classics imprint for certain classic novels like H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man. (I read that one like 10 times as a kid and it's what got me into sci-fi as a whole I'd argue. Haha.)

Whether these alternate versions are good or bad is obviously up for debate and depends on the person, but I'm just saying that what SE does is hardly new in the publishing world.

Because is all the current generation of devs know unfortunately.

Please don't spread more FUD.

It's only hepatoxic at high doses. Taking 1 or 2 Tylenol a day is not going to cause any problems.

You are off by a factor of 12.

It's $9 per month not year.

Thanks, I can't believe I missed that!

$90 vs $1,080 would be the difference anually.

Aider has built in support for lm studio endpoints.

https://aider.chat/docs/llms/lm-studio.html

No, in general mlx versions are always faster, ice tested most of them.

What TPS difference are you getting?

It's not you, they unfortunately slid into self indulgence.

Unfortunately those are both 10-15x the cost of deepseek direct.

Deepinfra is pretty cheap though as a deepseek provider.

Sure. I meant moreso that this would be cheaper than Kagi while providing the same selection of models.

As for deepseek, I couldn't even sign up because my email domain is not on their whitelist. To just try it out for now I don't mind the increased cost.

That's because DeepSeek is subsidizing their API massively to get more training data.

IIRC they went fully open source because they couldn't make it as a for profit company.

Selling dev tools is ferociously hard, as partially evidenced by this thread talking about how changing anyone's development flow/tooling/process is also ferociously hard

I would guess dev tooling usually also falls into the "nice to have," or as my former CEO used to say "vitamins vs painkillers"

I used to use Bluetooth to, but the TUI nature of Bluetooth makes it so much easier.