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Re:The Codex App by holmesworcester on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:12AM (#46868527)
> You don't casually give up massive abstraction wins

Value is value, and levers are levers, regardless of the resources you have or the difficulty of the problem you're solving.

If they can save effort with Electron and put that effort into things their research says users care about more, everyone wins.

Re:The Codex App by jim180 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @05:42AM (#46869250)
After every time I read "save effort with Electron", I go back to Win2K VM and poke around things and realize how faster everything is than M4 Max, just because value is value, and Electron saves some effort.
Re:The Codex App by pydry on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:15AM (#46871995)
That's like a luxury lumber company stuffing its showrooms full of ikea furniture.