2026-09-21

Developers using lightweight editors like Sublime Text are missing first-class remote development features and are forced into clunky workarounds with slower tools like VSCode.

"Even though Sublime Text is my primary editor and I have no intention to change, it is still something I miss. It is one of the reasons I sometimes switch to VSCode (which is a good reminder of how slow VSCode is compared to ST)."

iPhone users with large photo libraries pay for bigger phones and max out iCloud plans, but still struggle with buggy, unreliable tools for bulk exporting and managing their photos.

"they started having to buy bigger and bigger storage capacity iphones. Eventually those got full too, so they had to go to icloud and a few have basically maxed out their icloud 2tb plans, because these phones are now producing huge files... Frankly even if you know what you are doing apple doesn't make this easy. Image Capture is afaik the only real way to transfer photos to an external drive on iphone. And that app has not really seen any love since release, its buggy and frequently crashes with large transfers in my experience."

Power users paying for AI subscriptions or expensive hardware find performance and cost unpredictable, leading them to manually track usage, compare models, and tune complex local setups to get acceptable value.

"For Qwen 3.8 27B, I got it up to a consistent 20tk-25tk/s but 27B thinks so much that it was honestly too painful: Flash Next is as smart, as useful, but much faster for real agentic dev usage IMO"