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Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
by wewewedxfgdf 2mo ago
Why would they write this in electron instead of something closer to the metal I thought this is the whole point of AI.
- super256 2mo agoIt's built on OWL, which is their own Chromium integration. It's not electron. Seems pretty solid for Mac, but idk about Windows and Linux. https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/ https://openai.com/index/building-chatgpt-atlas/
- jampekka 2mo agoBecause electron gets shit done? Aside the memory usage, electron/browser based applications of any complexity tend to be better and develop a lot faster.
- sdevonoes 2mo agoUsers don’t like shit, though.
- justmedep 2mo agoMore testing you still need good engineers for every native platform if you go native. We all know that AI in the hands of incompetent people is bad.
- luca-ctx 2mo agoI made something similar using Tauri but there were visual inconsistencies between platforms thanks to webkit. At the time I remember thinking I wish I had used electron to buy cross platform parity. And I experimented with gpui from zed, that was even harder to work with. Of course they could chase performance, but ultimately time to market is the #1 factor right now, and coding agents still aren't good enough to just immediately realize an entire GPUI app from scratch with nothing more than a figma design. Still requires a ton of oversight.
- prmoustache 2mo ago> visual inconsistencies between platforms Why do you care? If I chose platform X over Z, that is potentially because I like the visual particularities of this platform.