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Yeah the Android is capable of 120 but often lower than 60 in practice

If you use a 120 Hz iPhone for 6 months and then switch back to your 12 mini, you'll notice immediately.

Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Shopify ended up building some tooling to try to solve this, but Apple in particular is remarkably disinterested in or perhaps inept at improving the developer experience, and agents won’t magically fix that.

The true test here, which I don’t see much discussion around, isn’t how fast or how well agents can convert the existing apps to native; it’s how fast and how well the team can build entirely new features across platforms with native vs react. The existing app code is an unambiguous spec — perfect for agents to build from. Typical design specs, PRDs, and prompts have a lot more ambiguity. There’s a lot of iteration that needs to happen to get a feature from concept to launch and I’d wager that will not be as fast with the fully native approach.

The compile and build times on iOS (and Android) are also painfully slow. They claim to have "hot reloading" but only under very specific conditions, and it's not the whole app. When you're working with UI in particular, you can often edit and text your changes 10x faster on React than native. You could argue that the quality "gains" you get from native are partially negated by the reduction in iteration speed. Quality often comes from iteration and it's an order of magnitude faster with React.

Because time is relative —— year for a 50 y/o is 1/50th of their life; a year for a 5 y/o is 1/5th of their life.

To be fair, Spotify was a slop factory long before LLMs started doing it

The bigger problem is that it doesn't help you learn the correct finger positions

It's not because of twitter character limits, it's because browsers collapse multiple consecutive spaces in html when they render text.

the subscriptions all have limits. when you hit the limit you again start paying per token.

occam's razor explanation: more tokens = more $.

models are incentivized by their makers to burn through as many tokens as they possibly can, so long as the customer doesn't cancel.

The irony of championing accessibility using low-contrast simulated VGA text...

I'd say better to not call it Cloudflare in that case

Easily switching between models. Re: the local read/edit case, it's a bit more seamless than opening in a separate editor.

That's about it.