Notes from building things.
No. But they're losing their monopoly, and the round that replaces them tests a different skill. Here's the evidence, my odds for the next year, and how I'd split prep time.
Helm is a Rust code editor that agents write and I review. Three days in, there's no window yet, but there's a text core, 297 passing tests and a CI setup built to stop agents from cheating.
Windows is fine if you want to be a consumer. Linux is for people who want to actually own their machine.
"The layout can still be tight. The buttons can still be good. The sentences have to come from a person who has actually been in the room."