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While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for

While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for hours, latency, keyboard handling, file system access, and OS-level integration stop being “nice to have” and start affecting real productivity. web or Electron apps are fine for experimentation, but they hit a ceiling fast for serious workflows -- especially if the icp is mostly technical users

supriyo-biswas 8mo ago
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- preston-kwei 8mo ago
  Well unfortunately, that’s just how I write. None of my posts are LLM-generated, so I'm sorry they come across that way.
  - supriyo-biswas 8mo ago
    Apologies.
tokioyoyo 8mo ago
Still good enough for the majority of the users.
- preston-kwei 8mo ago
  Fair, I think I'm certainly in the minority. Especially now more then ever with an increasing amount of non-technical people exploring vibe coding, 'good enough' really is good enough for most users
Xenoamorphous 8mo ago
VSCode is arguably one of the most if not the most popular code editor these days…
- waldrews 8mo ago
  And they're pretty much the only example of an embedded browser architecture actually performing tolerably and integrating well with the native environment.
  - herval 8mo ago
    Vscode’s performance is pretty bad. It’s “tolerable” just like any electron app.