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by cageface 11d ago
Do you have any citations for this? Not that I doubt you but I’d like to read more about it.
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by cageface 25d ago
The new concise output style they just released definitely helps with Opus 5 in general.
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by cageface 25d ago
I’ve been getting good results from using Sol for planning and Luna for everything else. At current rates it barely scratches my weekly quota. Makes me wonder if the current Luna prices are sustainable.
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by cageface 1mo ago
Just my own apps. Getting good performance out of SwiftUI on Mac is quite difficult. Loads of footguns.
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by cageface 1mo ago
I’ve had good experiences with Flutter too. It’s actually much easier to build a performant macOS app with flutter than with SwiftUI.
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by cageface 1mo ago
This is true but if you want to monetize it then there are similar review hurdles you're going to have to clear.
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by cageface 2mo ago
Verified this locally myself. Thanks for the concrete test. I guess it's time to give Claude another try.
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by cageface 5mo ago
Codex does better if you ask it to take screenshots and critique its own UI work and iterate. It rarely one-shots something I like but it can get there in steps.
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by cageface 5mo ago
In the US. In many other countries it's borderline useless.
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by cageface 5mo ago
LLMs tend to do better with component libraries like shadcn or daisy than writing raw CSS in my experience.
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by cageface 5mo ago
The pro plan is useless. You need at least the 5x max plan to get any real work done. That said I find the GPT plans much better value.
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by cageface 5mo ago
If you think Android tooling is subpar wait until you try iOS.
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by cageface 5mo ago
I've had exactly the opposite experience. Getting great results using GPT for hours every day since 5.3. You need to put the effort level on at least high though. Every time I hand off a task to Opus to see if it's gotten better I
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by cageface 5mo ago
On at least high effort level I find GPT 5.4 easily beats Opus 4.6 in code generation and debugging issues.
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by cageface 5mo ago
Unless you need to work with a repo that uses submodules or lfs.
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by cageface 8mo ago
That hasn’t been my experience. I agree Opus has the edge but it’s not by that much and I still sometimes get better results from Gemini, especially when debugging issues. Claude Code is much better than Gemini CLI though.
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by cageface 8mo ago
I really don't know how effective LLMs are at that but also that puts you in an extremely narrow niche of development, so you should keep that in mind when making much more general claims about how useful they are.
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by cageface 8mo ago
Why is that the real metric? If you can turn a 1x dev into a 2x dev that's a huge deal, especially if you can also turn the original 2x dev into a 4x dev. And far from "churning out code" my work is better with LLMs. Better t
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by cageface 8mo ago
C, Swift, Typescript, audio dsp, robotics etc. People always want to claim what they’re doing is so complex and esoteric that AI can’t touch it. This is dangerous hubris.
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by cageface 8mo ago
The denial on this topic is genuinely surreal. I've knocked out entire features in a single prompt that took me days in the past. I guess I should be happy that so many of my colleagues are willing to remove themselves from the competi
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by cageface 8mo ago
This kind of take I find genuinely baffling. I can't see how anybody working with current frontier models isn't finding them a massive performance boost. No they can't replace a competent developer yet, but they can easily
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by cageface 9mo ago
This is a large exaggeration. There are still a lot of people working on Flutter at Google and large companies continue to adopt it. Google's wildly popular NotebookLM is a recently released Flutter app, for example.
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by cageface 9mo ago
I’ve had very good experiences with Flutter on iOS and macOS. It’s actually a lot easier to get good performance in Flutter than SwiftUI. No cross platform stack can do Liquid Glass yet. You have to wonder if that was one of design goals.
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by cageface 9mo ago
The last time I looked at it was far less mature on non-Android platforms than Flutter. Has that changed?
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by cageface 9mo ago
You could give my app a try: https://www.plastaq.com/minimoon
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by cageface 9mo ago
SwiftUI on macOS 26 still has issues but it’s finally starting to evolve into something usable. In particular it seems like the long standing performance problems are being addressed.
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by cageface 9mo ago
As another example, the MacApps Reddit has been flooded with new apps recently.
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by cageface 10mo ago
I'd add postgres to that list.
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by cageface 10mo ago
Their Cocoa based frameworks were good for their time, I'll grant you that. Swift & SwiftUI, at least in their current state, are a mess with some pretty fundamental issues.
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by cageface 11mo ago
I agree but I also think any meaningful regulation is off the table for the next few years in the USA at least.

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