Building a Mac app with Claude code

> I've been building software for the Mac since 2008

Ok, so they knew where Claude went wrong and could correct for it.

And at the bottom it’s revealed that this costs $200/month. I have trouble convincing myself to give Autodesk $50/month and I need that software for my primary hobby.

And none of these AI companies are profitable. Imagine how much it will cost or how much it will be enshittified when the investors come looking for their returns.

If everyone whose code illegally trained these models won a copyright lawsuit against Claude it would suddenly not be so good at writing swift code.

Do we really want to bet on Disney losing their AI lawsuit?

Honestly I realize my comment is not adding much to the discussion but the AI fatigue is real. At this point I think HN and other tech forums would do well to ban the topic for posts like this.

Imagine if we were upvoting stories about how people are getting lots of coding done easier with Google and StackOverflow. It would be rightfully ridiculed as vapid content. Ultimately that’s what this blog post is. I really don’t care to hear how yet another dingus “programmer” is using AI to do their hobby/job for them.

Buy things that make you more productive. Seriously. Assuming you’re not in some horrible trap of no money to buy things that improve your life you’re being ridiculous by not doing it.

Also i code all day and have yet to hit the $10/month cap on claude that the jetbrains library offer.

I do buy things that make me more productive.

But I’m also not enjoying the idea of software engineering requiring a subscription to a service provider in a similar way to how creative professionals get backed in to adobe creative cloud, because up until this point most developer tools have been free or very cheap.

I mean, you have the ability to run Deekseek locally if you want and you have the hardware.

I find paying for Claude significantly less offensive than paying for e.g. Creative Cloud, because I'm largely paying for the compute resources.