Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
by dyauspitr on Thursday September 10, 2026 @01:20PM
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Not sarcastic. I have a moderately successful app and I haven’t once looked at the code (though I am capable, so far atleast). The only time I open Xcode is if I have to modify signing certificates. I did set up a slack workflow with a “fix it” button that basically tells Codex to fix the issue, run comprehensive tests, manually UI test for that particular issue with computer use and then deploy it.
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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
by collingreen on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:12PM
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Equal parts very cool and very scary to me
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native
by dyauspitr on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:57PM
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It is. For my day job, I’m a software engineering director and I probably won’t have a job in under five years. For low to medium complexity apps, even Codex before Astra was capable of doing it completely by itself from scratch. For testing I would bring up the app after each atomic change and then manually try it out. I also use my own app heavily multiple times a day and I have found dozens of issues but I just ask Codex to fix it on the spot.