Wow.

I’m astonished (though maybe I shouldn’t be?) that the dev gives such self-centered answers. Like how can they not know how bad that’ll come off?

But here I am, with a Claude Max 5x subscription for the past year and a half. I’m not comfortable with it, but the utility is just too great for me to take a principled stance here. I like it, and I want it, so I’m using it. Maybe that’s morally questionable, or worse. But, as I said: here I am.

All of his answers are complete cop-out sidesteps, but that line in particular, I mean… Fuck, dude.

I previously held quite positive feelings about Xfce finally getting the last piece of the puzzle to switch to wayland, but uh, yeah. Not anymore.

I’m curious if the Xfce developers that decided to hire Brian knew he’d be so heavily using LLM’s to develop xfwl4, if that would’ve given them pause or not. It would appear that he got the money first, then decided to disclose all of his LLM use.

Xfce was always known as the stable, conservative, slow, reliable DE. I just can’t see its userbase being too happy about this announcement. I’m certainly not. I use it on a very weak laptop with Debian 13, but I think I may switch to a different lightweight DE when Debian 14 comes around, perhaps LXQt or a window manager.