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1. Olympi+EJ[view] [source] 2026-02-02 21:31:37
>>meetpa+(OP)
It is baffling how these AI companies, with billions of dollars, cannot build native applications, even with the help of AI. From a UI perspective, these are mostly just chat apps, which are not particularly difficult to code from scratch. Before the usual excuses come about how it is impossible to build a custom UI, consider software that is orders of magnitude more complex, such as raddbg, 10x, Superluminal, Blender, Godot, Unity, and UE5, or any video game with a UI. On top of that, programs like Claude Cowork or Codex should, by design, integrate as deeply with the OS as possible. This requires calling native APIs (e.g., Win32), which is not feasible from Electron.
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2. bopbop+iK[view] [source] 2026-02-02 21:34:47
>>Olympi+EJ
> even with the help of AI.

This is what you get when you build with AI, an electron app with an input field.

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3. Olympi+WU[view] [source] 2026-02-02 22:14:50
>>bopbop+iK
Claude code is perfectly capable of writing low level rendering and input code and it can be equally as mindless as vibe coding web apps.

E.g. just say "write a c++ gui widget library using dx11 and win32 and copy flutters layout philosophy, use harfbuzz for shaping, etc etc"

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