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Their goal is to ship as fast as possible b/c they don't care about what you care about. Their objective is to gather as much data as possible & electron is good enough for that.

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I work at OpenAI, and I get the concern. From our side, this was a careful tradeoff: Electron lets us iterate faster and makes it possible to bring the Codex app to Windows and Linux very soon. That doesn’t mean performance or UX don’t matter—we’re actively paying attention to both.

Would genuinely love your thoughts if you try it. Early users have been surprised by how native it feels!

I use Google's antigravity so I personally have no problem w/ electron applications. At the end of the day UI performance is not a bottleneck for me.

Aaaaand that is why we, as end users get machines which are sluggish, because literally every. Single. Application is taking this attitude.

Shock horror, the waste adds up, and it adds up extremely quickly.

I don't really care about memory or how much of it is taken up by the editor. I have enough memory for the work that I do & UI performance would make no difference to my workflow.

Your AI can’t make a UI for 3 platforms? Seems pretty worthless.

the problem is that getting this out in this shape the week after Cursor made $100M ARR would have made sense

getting it out now suggests there are structural problems about how decisions get made and code gets shipped—and the "iterate faster" line feels misplaced

Could you please pass on feedback to the team that the git diff view is very hard to read for red/green colourblind users like myself? Colour scheme like GitUp.co is very readable for me.

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