Re:Show HN: Spawn – Build iOS Apps with English
by gsundeep on Thursday August 08, 2024 @02:50PM
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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.)
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?