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I keep seeing versions of this take too and I don't get it. If it's just snark about how AI is being marketed as an engineer in a box, sure, but unless everyone

by llbbdd 7mo ago

I keep seeing versions of this take too and I don't get it. If it's just snark about how AI is being marketed as an engineer in a box, sure, but unless everyone else is using different agents than I am, they still aren't literally magic. Nobody has a button they can press to just make the whole app cross-platform native, and have it behave the same across platforms, without additional substantial handholding and time investment. And again, purely economically, why would they? When inference still costs money and time that they can invest in having the AI do other things that actually matter to their customers and business? And unless there've been recent advances in longevity I'm not aware of, individual human devs still have a fixed amount of time on this earth, and there's no end in sight to the demand for software even if we 1000x the speed we can build it at today. They can spend it doing other things instead of futzing around prematurely optimizing chat apps.

croes 7mo ago
But that would mean they enormously exaggerate the capabilities of their models. I can’t go "look it built a browser from scratch" and "look it built a compiler" to "sorry, native apps are complicated"
- llbbdd 7mo ago
  That's what I mean, this has nothing to do with Electron or why developers or companies use it. It's just kicking the tires on the marketing. Truth in advertising is always scarce, Red Bull doesn't literally give you wings either. You and I both know that AI today can't really build a browser or compiler from scratch on par with the cumulative human work put into Chrome or GCC. You could just as easily side-eye these companies like "well, if your AI is so good, why doesn't it build its own hardware and OS and run on that?". Even if they could, why would they do that except as a proof of concept? It'd still be more work and more time for no benefit at all to their customers or their business.

by llbbdd 7mo ago

croes 7mo ago

But that would mean they enormously exaggerate the capabilities of their models. I can’t go "look it built a browser from scratch" and "look it built a compiler" to "sorry, native apps are complicated"

llbbdd 7mo ago
That's what I mean, this has nothing to do with Electron or why developers or companies use it. It's just kicking the tires on the marketing. Truth in advertising is always scarce, Red Bull doesn't literally give you wings either. You and I both know that AI today can't really build a browser or compiler from scratch on par with the cumulative human work put into Chrome or GCC. You could just as easily side-eye these companies like "well, if your AI is so good, why doesn't it build its own hardware and OS and run on that?". Even if they could, why would they do that except as a proof of concept? It'd still be more work and more time for no benefit at all to their customers or their business.