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It can demoralizing for developers to realize that they've built something that nobody is interested in, either because potential users are happy with what's built into the OS, or …

Last weeks's discussion (591 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299

So is this basically Beads + Dolt? This isn’t to diminish it, it’d be great if this ends up being a less “vibe code-y” alternative to those.

This is absolutely true, although I'd broden it to "systems design" since software is part and parcel of the advancements. An example that comes to mind is AssistiveTouch for for A…

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime

> There's no way I'd dare to take on a full Apple-platform app project alone on my own, but I've started dabbling in it again thanks to AI: Codex even converted an old app I made i…

> I've noticed that developers who started with UIKit really have a hard time working with SwiftUI. I think this is true. SwiftUI became "very good" as of iOS 26 (in part because t…