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> I see this sentiment often, and I’m honestly not sure where this comes from, as it’s really not been my experience

If you see people saying it often, but you are convinced they are just feeling threatened, what AI generated software would point to to say, "Look at this! Definitive evidence that they are just coping!"

I'd say that the molotov cocktails being thrown at the house of an AI company CEO being met with mostly praise and a little bit of apathy is a good hint you might actually be in a bubble

A bit part of this that people are not understanding is that a major part of the author's success is due to the fact that he clearly does not care at all how anything is implemented, mostly because he doesn't need to.

You get way farther when you have the AI drop in Tailwind templates or Shadcn for you and then just let it use those components. There is so much software outside that web domain though.

A lot of people just stop working on their AI projects because they don't realize how much work it's going to take to get the AI to do exactly what they want in the way that they want, and that it's basically going to be either you accept some sort of randomized variant of what you're thinking of, or you get a thing that doesn't work at all.

> For me it’s just a huge force multiplier, maybe 10-20x of my ability to deliver with my own knowledge and skills on a web dev basis.

I can tell you that this claim is where a lot of engineers are getting hung up. People keep saying that they are 10, 20 and sometimes even 100x more productive but it's this hyperbole that is harming that building style more than anything.

If you anyone could get 10 to 20 years worth of work done in 1 year, it would be so obvious that you wouldn't even have to tell anyone. Everyone would just see how much work you got done and be like "How did you do 2 decades worth of work this year?!"

It's also worse than that. It uses the Raycast logo directly in the launcher itself. Which is odd because just above this, OP says:

"I've actually thought about that before; I've tried to be extremely clear in the project's README with a disclaimer that this is a non-commercial hobby project and is not affiliated with the official Raycast team in any way."

Clearly a bright kid, but that's quite a fumble. Among my ideas for being extremely clear about not being affiliated with Raycast I would have to say using their name and using their logo together would be the worst way to communicate that.

I think this applies to both tools/frameworks/libs and problem spaces

I was talking about both. Sometimes even in a problem space time constraints demand that you utilize something off the shelf (whether you use part of it or build on top of a custom version of it).

Tools aside, I think everyone who has 10+ years can think of a time they had a prototype go well in a new problem space only to realize during the real implementation that there were still multiple unknown unknowns.

> It can reveal “unknown unknowns”. Often, prototypes uncover things I couldn’t have anticipated.

This is the exact opposite of my experience. Every time I am playing around with something, I feel like I'm experiencing all of its good and none of its bad ... a honeymoon phase if you will.

It's not until I need to cover edge cases and prevent all invalid state and display helpful error messages to the user, and eliminate any potential side effects that I discover the "unknown unknowns".

Optifye is positioned hard as a way to make it easier for management to squeeze every drop of blood out of workers, it's pretty fucked to try to use the real issue of women's safety as a defense for this. If this had anything to do with women's safety, that video and the website would have been completely different.

I could probably be a pretty damn good cook, perhaps even a sous chef. But there is so so much I want to do that is not cooking. Is it really so difficult for CEOs and devrels of AI companies to imagine that some people don't want to spend their time making software, even if it is accessible?

How much is this saying when just a couple decades ago a 9 year old could imagine that a broomstick was a sword and that they were fighting knights on the battlefield?

A child can fill in tons of gaps with their animation (see: Rugrats). We're talking about "is AI good enough to enable a 100% non-technical user able to create software on the fly without the non-technical user losing patience?" This is the discussion.

I understand where this guy was coming from with the comment about Tauri being the same type of thing, but when you really take a look at Tauri, it seems to really hold up. There are some Tauri apps that have performance that is easily on par with native.

The only thing is that Tauri apps seem to be quite easy for the developer to botch and end up with performance problems. One of the worst performing apps I ever used in my life was a Tauri app.

It's actually not Electron, it appears to be Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), which is what Spotify desktop app uses. I'm speaking completely separately from OP's product:

CEF was supposed to be more efficient than Electron, but I think that framework heavily missed the mark. I'd be interested to know why the dev chose CEF instead.

It definitely is sad to see people not want to deviate even a little bit. I've seen at least 3 instances on Twitter where someone launched a product and they had the same landing page as another popular app even where certain components don't make sense.

A classic example is the rotating globe that you can click and drag. That was usually meant for showing sales happening across the world, but now people are just throwing it in a card with the header: "Innovative new features".

Like there's just no thought put into anything and what bothers me is how popular low-effort is becoming in tech. Startling.

I very much dislike the tweet that OP uses on the Magic UI site that's directed at Linear:

"Companies spend $30,000 and several weeks to get designs like this"

Yes. Because being a first or early mover is expensive. You commoditizing their style after they've put in all the brain work to create or build it isn't the same thing.

Also, isn't the point of design engineering to be capable of coming up with relatively original and innovative UI?

Yeah you're probably right about there not being any pressure. the 2.2M was a seed round. 2.2M is a lot for 3 people salaries for 3 years in my opinion

They raised at least 2.2M in funding. Then they got acquired. Now it's over. I do think it's time we stop pretending that you can build a fully-fledged company on top of a developer tool or plugin.

Lots of companies like this are going to be struggling in the next 2 years.

I have to pay my respects to such an amazing artist, responsible for some of the most inspiring and motivating stories during my childhood. One of the parts of the series that stands out to me is when Android 16's broken body (head) is on the ground, and with the last of his life he pleads with Gohan to:

"Please! Drop your restraints!"

That's weird. According to these prices, Apple has been overcharging me for RAM?

Yeah I noticed this too. That was a completely unfair comparison, and if the author of this article is a decent engineer, then he has to know how egregiously bad faith that comes across. The author won't have support from a lot of people after two mistakes:

1. He's published the article under his native Mac app's blog, which he has every incentive to do and for that reason is biased.

2. Comparing a local text editor to an app that loads tons of rich media content from one of the busiest servers in the world discredits the argument in a major way

I've been following Zed for quite some time now and happy to see them follow through with the OSS move.

I personally don't like for my editor to send out any kind of external requests at all, and this is actually what keeps me on vim as my main editor. I also don't like limited login options

It would be cool to have a version that's just a stripped down Zed, and if need be you can install the extra stuff as plugins.

This has been my primary issue with Arc. I can't tell what it is and the copy on the website reads like it comes from the world's most pretentious designer. I feel like any tech blogger covering this can't be taken seriously when they say "I just decided to give Arc a try because of how it looks" when there were 0 pictures on the website and the intro heading was literally "Arc is a browser". Okay Arc.

This is going to sound like a negative comment but I promise it's not ...

Something really gets under my skin with the way they talk about Arc on their website. There is nothing on their website that means anything. Previously the headline of their website was literally "Arc is a browser". Are you kidding?

It then went on to say that it's everything I care about. Really? How is that? What do I care about? Are you sure you know what I care about? Then finally it asks me if I'm ready to let go of the old internet.

If you're going to say stuff like this, I think most of us at least on HN would expect them to be doing something where the benefits are very apparent. Or at the least, they'd have rebuilt the browser from the ground up. It's built on Chromium and therefore will have similar issues and limitations.

I don't think there's anything wrong with Chromium, I'm happy to use such a browser but I think it's time Arc decided to explain what their goal is using English, or something we can actually understand.

Thank you! Yes, I will be sure to let you know as I have already been working on tagging so it will be in this next update!

I've been strongly considering a mobile app + the syncing as my previous experience was mobile apps anyway. There actually is a free tier, no credit card required at all.

And YES YES YES, tagging is already in the works as I have been desperate for a great tagging feature!

The bookmarks are actually autosorted by the date created, but happy to make any adjustments as requested!

Oh my god, thank you for saying that about Brave. Brave is by far my favorite browser, but all the crypto-pushing is just weird to me. It makes more sense to have them be add-ons, but the way the browser encourages it as part of it's functionality is indeed off-putting and why I took as long as I did to switch.

Yeah, I'm definitely not into those tests. It's so played out. This means that the only way I'm going to do one is if I want to work for the company just that bad. And Amazon is not it. If my passion was crushing competition in unfair ways, I'd just take steroids and be a professional athlete.

There is something inherently good about not having everything you could possibly want right when you want it.

> One of my old bosses would just say "Hang on, hang on..." over and over until the steamroller figured out they weren't going to be able to speak endlessly and they'd stop talking

This is what people need to learn how to do. And I think this is the biggest issue I have with WFH is that it puts people in a position where they don't have to develop the skills necessary to resolve conflict. They can just leave a call or ignore an email.

I had a conflict with one manager while working remotely at one job and rather than even address the issue with me, she just removed me from the team Slack channel. I sent a very apologetic and peacemaking message, which she proceeded to ignore. Although I don't work there anymore, we do live in the same city. So if I do see her and she tries to pull a fake smile, I hope she's ready to address that immediately.

However you feel about interpersonal communication, I think I speak for everyone when I say: I don't want to be part of any organization where people can rise up to positions of leadership or decision-making without having any capacity or tolerance for conflict.

I find your take really interesting because everyone who is pro-WFH tells people that they love WFH because of this long list of things that I was doing before the pandemic, and they were free to do as well. I personally find the notion that by merely having a commute, your quality of life is 10x diminished than if you didn't.

If most employers make people return to office, are people just going to drop exercising? Would it not be fair to call that ridiculous?