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Yeah the Android is capable of 120 but often lower than 60 in practice

If you use a 120 Hz iPhone for 6 months and then switch back to your 12 mini, you'll notice immediately.

Exactly. I wouldn’t be surprised if Shopify ended up building some tooling to try to solve this, but Apple in particular is remarkably disinterested in or perhaps inept at improving the developer experience, and agents won’t magically fix that.

The true test here, which I don’t see much discussion around, isn’t how fast or how well agents can convert the existing apps to native; it’s how fast and how well the team can build entirely new features across platforms with native vs react. The existing app code is an unambiguous spec — perfect for agents to build from. Typical design specs, PRDs, and prompts have a lot more ambiguity. There’s a lot of iteration that needs to happen to get a feature from concept to launch and I’d wager that will not be as fast with the fully native approach.

The compile and build times on iOS (and Android) are also painfully slow. They claim to have "hot reloading" but only under very specific conditions, and it's not the whole app. When you're working with UI in particular, you can often edit and text your changes 10x faster than on React than native. You could argue that the quality "gains" you get from native are partially negated by the reduction in iteration speed. Quality often comes from iteration and it's an order of magnitude faster with React.

Because time is relative —— year for a 50 y/o is 1/50th of their life; a year for a 5 y/o is 1/5th of their life.

To be fair, Spotify was a slop factory long before LLMs started doing it

The bigger problem is that it doesn't help you learn the correct finger positions

It's not because of twitter character limits, it's because browsers collapse multiple consecutive spaces in html when they render text.

the subscriptions all have limits. when you hit the limit you again start paying per token.

occam's razor explanation: more tokens = more $.

models are incentivized by their makers to burn through as many tokens as they possibly can, so long as the customer doesn't cancel.

The irony of championing accessibility using low-contrast simulated VGA text...

I'd say better to not call it Cloudflare in that case

Easily switching between models. Re: the local read/edit case, it's a bit more seamless than opening in a separate editor.

That's about it.

> electronic music is significantly harder for AI to do than a conventional love ballad or a rock song

Why do you say that? I'd argue the opposite

Google is a good bet because if AI continues to boom, they're in a good position (frontier lab, vertically integrated). If the bubble bursts and the frontier labs fail, they might do even better.

YouTube is already recommending tons of AI-generated electronic music. It's pretty easy to spot: It will have millions of views and the "artist's" discography will only go back to 2025 or 2026. It's usually just singles. The cover art is vague atmospheric AI-generated. The "artist" will have no presence online save for a couple instagram account with a couple posts that are also AI-generated.

This seems like a typical AI workflow, but isn't it dreadfully boring?

But aren't there plenty of used expensive phones from the last 5-7 years that are more or less equivalent replacements for new cheap phones? Apple alone sells 250 million phones a year.

Eh, Square and Cash App were pretty innovative when they came out. The industry is mature enough now that all the products are ripping each other off

Have never seen an interview or piece of writing where he comes off sounding like he knows what he's doing.

After riding in countless Ubers and Lyfts, with drivers who drive all day for a living, I can say confidently that good drivers who grasp the intricacies of driving are by far the exception.

> It’s like learning how to drive. It’s a skill for sure but anyone can do it after practice.

The analogy only illustrates the parent's point. Most licensed drivers have been doing it for years and are still terrible drivers, because they never grasp the intricacies of driving — smoothly accelerating and decelerating, smoothing out corners, anticipating light changes, gauging merge distances and timings, using mirrors well, ensuring cars get by when making a left turn in an intersection, etc, etc

Obviously to have an unregistered gun?

Why not just improve the free public wifi?

> It’s a good idea to enable cellular service for those who don’t have adequate access at home.

But then the students with mobile access have an advantage over those who only have home access. And how do you determine who has adequate access at home and who doesn't? Much easier and more equitable to just provide it for everyone.

The business trajectory will be like Uber. A few big companies (Google, OpenAI) will price their AI services at a loss until consumers find it to be indispensable and competitors run out of money, then they'll steadily ramp up the pricing to the point where they're gouging consumers (and raking in profits) but still a bit cheaper or better than alternatives (humans in this case).

Configurability is fine, but it's too obvious a recommendation and just creates noise. The purpose of a recommendation system is to help you find things that aren't obvious. I'd still filter them out by default even if it's configurable.

I didn't say it was likely that you'd enjoy the other books by that author. My point is that it's not helpful for a recommendation system to recommend more books by that author — it's common sense. If I've read a book by an author, it's easy enough to look up their other work and decide whether I want to read more of them.