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Yes. How else could the LLM even begin to do what it did otherwise. Not a criticism of you, just a place for a rant but I still find it incredible when people think they're doing something novel when really they're just reassembling existing work.

What really reinforced this for me was that I recently vibe coded a home assistant addon that, as it turns out, there was a github project that did almost the same thing. The initial implementation that came out of the LLM was essentially the same just with just some small tell in things like the logging that came from what I prompted it.

It was a very small project (maybe 500 LOC) so there's a greater chance of coincidence but it really felt like the office junior had just ripped off someone else's work and tried to hide it (badly) and really, that's exactly what they do

The S&P 500 has dropped over 40% multiple times including 1929. It did it in the 70s, 2000 and 2008/9.

The COVID crash nearly hit those levels also

I'm kind of disappointed that this isn't a simulator for managing what happens inside the airport rather than ATC.

I'm also unsure why I feel that way as it sounds like a nightmare

I'm also bummed. My company shutdown the money burning pit due to fire safety concerns

That much is the key.

They're still washed, otherwise they would have all kinds of crap on them (literally, chickens only have one hole), they just aren't subjected to chemicals and scrubbing etc.

Having very low salmonella rates in the flock makes it really unnecessary

I was searching for a comment like this.

It sounds like a crazy workaround for Flutter's strange architectural choices

Or America's advantage is by its own design.

Rich people can invest relatively small amounts in hundreds, if not thousands of startups through preferentially treated retirement funds and pay no (or little) tax on the ones that make it big.

This is what has made it so easy to secure funding in the US.

Should Europe do the same? There's definitely an ethical dilemma in making the rich, richer for the sake of innovation.

We must be buying different things if you think Amazon is cheap in the EU.

I find almost everything can be had cheaper elsewhere these days, except the Chinese junk like you find on Temu, the enshitification has well and truly sunk in.

I always paste products I find right back into Google and more often than not find them cheaper elsewhere

Dude. They're even on the React Native showcase page.

I don't know what to say but you're massively mistaken.

Uber use React Native too BTW. Lots of other big tech companies also, I don't know of any that use Flutter in a big way. Just some toe dipping

It's probably within an order of magnitude but it's really just hobbyists, casuals and indies using it.

If you compare it to React Native there probably are more Flutter apps published but if you drill down into the top 1000 on each app store you would be lucky to find more than a few in most countries using Flutter whereas React Native definitely makes up more than 10%, maybe as high as 30% of non-game apps. I know on my phone I have zero Flutter based apps installed and almost 20% use React Native in some way.

Source: I'm an app developer so I keep an eye on these things.

LOL Bolt is a React Native shop.

Just Google "bolt react native" they have jobs and articles about their usage but also any library inspector will tell you that.

No. Read the simple form of my response, the first part.

What you said was an example of one factor as to why it's more complex than the simple form for people who really want to dig down deep but on its own it's not an answer

This old myth is as old as the RN vs Flutter debate itself and I'm willing to help bust it again.

The simple answer is that when people have a problem or question about Flutter they simply key in Flutter. With RN they can ask about React, JavaScript, typescript, RN itself or one of the many components you use to make an app as it's the sum of a lot more parts.

So if Flutter didn't get more searches here I would be surprised and concerned.

The longer answer I'll just tease but suffice to say it's more complex than above.

It can come down to lots of things including the competency/experience of developers and maturity. As an experienced developer I might need to search for or ask about what I'm doing maybe 2 times a week. For someone getting started that might be that many times an hour. If you just looked at the two of us as a blob it might seem that whatever the other is using is more popular despite it being 50/50.

So yeah, number of searches or stack overflow questions or Reddit posts or whatever it is does not equal popularity.

Since when was Flutter the "go-to solution for cross-platform development"?

Maybe for hobbyists but in the corporate space it's still React Native.

The problem with Flutter, and this extends even further with KMP is that the scope of your skills is limited to making mobile apps whereas with React Native you are learning and using skills that can apply to a complete stack.

KMP is even worse in this regard as they expect you to build two frontends (yes I'm aware of compose multi platform but it's a separate product entirely) so unless you have some crazy business logic that Dart or JavaScript can't handle you're sacrificing the largest benefit in cross platform app development for the smallest.

As for whether Google are replacing Flutter I think they made a massive PR goof with the launch and have introduced a lot of uncertainty. Possibly it's their long term plan but currently it's just a tiny niche product.

The wig costs $2m a year? I need to get into this business.

The vegan diet probably saves a few bucks but I doubt he's any fitter than any other guy who spends that many hours a day on exercise.