AI Coding

One Threatened With Takedown, One Cracked: The Hardest Part of Indie Development Is Not Writing Code

Two small indie developer stories show what Vibe Coding often hides: AI can help you build a product, but it cannot handle angry users, platform rules, privacy exposure, piracy, customer support, or revenue protection for you.

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo Code and made MiMo V2.5 free for a limited time: perk or developer-entry war?

Starting from a Xiaomi MiMo email, this article examines why the key phrase is not simply open source or self-evolution, but limited-time free access to MiMo V2.5 inside a terminal coding agent.

RMB 20,000 for Outsourcing vs RMB 2,000 in AI Tokens: Programmers Will Not Disappear Overnight, but They Are Being Repriced First

A V2EX post claiming that RMB 2,000 worth of AI tokens can outperform RMB 20,000 of outsourced development is not enough to prove that AI has replaced programmers. But it is a useful signal: the cost model around software work is changing faster than many people want to admit.