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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by mattm on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:48AM (#49644697)
This is a type of project that likely wouldn't have been done before AI
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by eleventen on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:10AM (#49645118)
Of course it would. Supply and demand. Some companies would decide not to bother. Others would decide it was worthwhile. The limited pool of supply (app developers) would be distributed across demand.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by enraged_camel on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:50AM (#49645809)
>> Some companies would decide not to bother. Others would decide it was worthwhile.

The parent's point is that AI lowers the cost/benefit ratio drastically, by reducing the cost. So companies that would have shied away from projects like this pre-AI are now pulling the trigger without much hesitation.

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by hamandcheese on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:41PM (#49652941)
And what a lot of people seem to miss is that with AI, there is going to be (already is?) orders of magnitude more software in this world. I'm sure a lot of jobs will be eliminated, but new jobs will be created as well. Hopefully enough to balance things out, but we'll see.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by rrr_oh_man on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:17AM (#49653839)
> The parent's point is that AI lowers the cost/benefit ratio drastically, by reducing the cost.

…as long as Claude is still subsidized…

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by spiderice on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:33PM (#49647452)
> Some companies would decide not to bother

Sounds like you agree

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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by eleventen on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:48PM (#49648528)
I agree that AI is suppressing developer wage growth and taking real jobs. The opposite argument is being made elsewhere in the thread, and I think that argument is wrong.
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