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I am a heavy user of AI tools, I have a Claude Code Max x20 subscription. I basically do not write any code myself but only direct CC to do so. This article is BS. It is a nice tool and it makes tedious work enjoyable (refactoring, searching for files, understanding legacy code, etc.). But it is incredibly incompetent quite often, needing adjustment and guidance. It does stuff in some way, it might even work but the code is a mess, the architecture might be alright, it might also be a complete chaos. I never was able to let it implement a feature on its own, it sometimes fucks up single method implementations.

Yes it is quite a bit better than a year ago (Opus that is, Sonnet is meh, how people use Codex is a mystery to me, that thing is terrible). I do not deny that but articles like these are fearmongering at best. These are tools that can help you quite well, but they are not, in any way, at the level described in this blogpost.

Sorry that wasn’t meant like that, I was just pointing out that that was at least communicated in Archnews which not everything is, for example the firewalld package split you have to catch in the package update warnings which is easy to miss.

Yeah but that was communicated in Archnews: https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Sure the Arch or package maintainers could provide migration scripts for stuff like that (there probably are rolling distros who do that?) or when they split packages but usually you are fine if you read the announcements and act accordingly.

One day I will figure out what other Arch users do and why my installation had not a single issue in the 3 years it has been running so far.

They did not replace repos, they exit in addition to the normal Arch repos, you can install any package from these repos if you want.

How does Cachy not work? How do you even use it in the same sentence as Manjaro? Cachy is just Arch + some optimized packages provided by their repos. You can theoretically migrate from pure Arch to Cachy by adding their repos and even the other way around.