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Re:Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English by JBorrow on Thursday August 08, 2024 @02:41PM (#41194820)
> Over time, as both Spawn and the underlying models improve, it will be able to build more complex software.[^Citation needed]

It seems to me that with the transformer model world we now live in, utilities like these are excellent at generating things that appear in many tutorials/posts/etc. However, there's little-to-no evidence that they are able to generate anything truly custom. For instance, any application requiring any significant level of domain-specific knowledge (your last point), and given the model's architectures there's no reason to believe that will occur. What is it that makes you so confident that will become a possibility?

Re:Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English by gsundeep on Thursday August 08, 2024 @02:50PM (#41194908)
That's a fair point, I can't say for certain that tools like Spawn will be able to build really complex software. However, I think there's a ton of software that could be built with current model capabilities that simply isn't getting built because the remainder of the process still has a high learning curve (ex: learning how to use Xcode, figuring out app permissions etc.)