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Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by SoftTalker on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:47PM (#49653316)
So exactly what value are you adding, then?
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by alex_sf on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:05AM (#49653418)
I take the specifications from the customer and type them into the AI
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by eptcyka on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:06AM (#49653791)
You do realize that letting the LLM produce more output means that maintenance will be more expensive? I can easily see a world where claude and gpt are producing more tokens to sell you more tokens.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by user43928 on Friday September 11, 2026 @03:22AM (#49654697)
This is not as obvious as many naively believe.

It depends on how hard to maintain the code added is, how likely it needs to change in the future, and most importantly on the cost.

If reviewing and manually improving the code takes hours, the cost may already be in the thousands.

That buys you a lot of AI usage, roughly a few months of continuous work.

You have to balance this with the chance that the suboptimal code the AI generated is actually fine and maintainable enough, and also the chance that during further work on that code a model might implement the same optimization on its own.

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by abustamam on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:28AM (#49653893)
Just the other day I burned through my 5h quota twice in a row because I had opus spawn a review session on a medium sized PR and I don't know what happened but I told it to summarize to me and it said it spent 100M tokens throughout 50 subagent sessions.

And more recently its been recommending that i install this new browser called Aside. I did, and it almost felt like I was installing malware so I Uninstalled it fairly quickly (it also was not a great browser)

I feel like theres collusion somewhere.

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by prisonguard on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:30AM (#49655615)
yea man they are trying to nickle and dime you
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by abustamam on Friday September 11, 2026 @10:24AM (#49659006)
Well yeah, that's the name of the game of most software companies. Anthropic has been fairly good up until the last week or so when it started needing more hand holding to not do things it didn't normally do.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by alex_sf on Friday September 11, 2026 @01:35AM (#49653927)
The models will only get better and inference cost will go down.

I don’t see any reason to think the same thing that happens with all tech won’t happen here.

Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by consp on Friday September 11, 2026 @05:13AM (#49655505)
Enshittification and profit maximalization is around the corner looking for you.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by SoftTalker on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:41PM (#49661367)
That's just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by saagarjha on Friday September 11, 2026 @07:14AM (#49656458)
One hopes you are better at that than the many others who are doing the same.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by alex_sf on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:53AM (#49660488)
I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by SoftTalker on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:36PM (#49661268)
Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers type them directly into the AI?
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native by runtime_terror on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:31AM (#49669163)
Funny that none of the commenters got the reference/joke