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Commenters link it as the author's own earlier post on PC sales, a complaint about an AI model's quality decline, and a fetch upload progress item.
I actually touched upon this in a blog post I wrote last month: http://ilikekillnerds.com/2013/09/rumours-of-pcs-demise-have-been-greatly-exaggerated/ — and I said exactly this. A bad economy coupled with the fact people just don't need to upgrade as much any more are reasons PC sales have slowed. The PC will always be around, tablets and smartphones are great, but they're not comfortable for extended periods of time nor as capable. As I also point out, being a developer means I need a keyboard and multiple monitors to do my job and coding on a tablet is just never going to happen.
LOL, no, dumbing down was when I paid two months of subscription with the model literally struggling to write basic functions. Something Anthropic eventually acknowledged but offered no refunds for. https://ilikekillnerds.com/2025/09/09/anthropic-finally-admits-claude-quality-degradation/
I care A LOT about the details, and I couldn't care less that they're cleaning up terminal output like this.
fetch doesn't support upload progress
https://javascript.info/fetch-progress
> Please note: there’s currently no way for fetch to track upload progress. For that purpose, please use XMLHttpRequest, we’ll cover it later.
coming soon (2020)
https://ilikekillnerds.com/2020/09/file-upload-progress-with-the-fetch-api-is-coming/