I can't imagine trusting these apps with access to my camera, file system or any other sensitive permissions.
Glaze by Raycast
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#72I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users
> https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ Kids these days are always saying "snaoƨd" and "foʀaṅr"
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#73I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users
Related, "glass" or "glassing" can also refer to stabbing someone in the face with broken glass or decimating a world in nuclear holocaust.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think we are anywhere near a tool like this for native, but that's a lost battle anyway. I hope it's not a lost battle, tbh. I was hoping with AI & Vibe Coding we'd see sort of a resurgence of native first desktop apps, but so far it's just all been a continuation of the web app & web tech hegemony. Maybe not for Windows as their native GUI story is a lost cause now, but for sure macOS and I had hopes of it…
Well, to be fair, I do have an experience working on a Windows Forms app from scratch. App connects to a very specific scanner via customs drivers and makes use of a remote API for data tasks. The app works, it's stable, but I'm not going to lie, AI assisted coding for this particular stack does require a very large amount of nurturing, it is just not the same experience you get with web apps. Nevertheless, it did it…
Makes sense. There's plenty of freely available code and data online for using web tech. Any number of free online bootcamps spawned in the mid 2010s are full of "Become a React developer in 6 months" type of content.
Native, especially on Windows and macOS, have been the domain of proprietary apps there's not much code outside of tutorials online to train a model on outside of official documentation.
I made a couple of small menu bar utilities for mac using Gemini, and it was OK at best. Kept wanting to use deprecated APIs, but with a lot of handholding I got them to work.
Would be neat to see Apple put out their own model specifically for Swift/SwiftUI
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#75Might sound like a rube here, but: is agentic development really this good at novel UIs? The video shows a sort of cassette tape music player, and a fancy looking audio visualizer/equalizer thing. I'm well aware agents are very good at boilerplate UIs, but I wouldn't expect them to be able to one-shot novel, dynamic UI elements like this. I've had Claude attempt some SVG animations and the results were very crude. That was a year or so ago though. Are there established ways of letting agents iterate on UIs, i.e. having them visually verify the visual design and interactions?
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#76I thought this must be a joke at first. "Glaze" is in pretty heavy use as recent slang for "when someone excessively praises another person in a way that feels over-the-top." https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ ie the annoying way that LLMs interact with users
> https://creativesimiles.com/glaze-meaning-slang/ Kids these days are always saying "snaoƨd" and "foʀaṅr"
> Written By Lucas Gray
There is no way a human wrote that page. If Lucas Gray even exists, he should probably reconsider that last image, and his life more generally.
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#77It is interesting how so many different companies end up converging to some sort of AI coding.
Raycast -> Glaze AirTable -> Lovable Competitor Retool -> Lovable Competitor
Even those early in the journey are converging towards coding.
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#78Is this just shitting out electron crap?
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#79Claude Code is pretty good at Swift + Swift UI. I created and have been iterating on a menubar app for myself that I plan to share with a small team. I'd prefer to do this native than go through a 3rd party solution. I do have prior experience developing for iOS but that was pre-swift.
Thank you for your service.
We need more of you. Not more electron slop.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I took a few shots at building desktop apps with Tauri, Wails and Electron using Claude Code, and the results were not very good at all. In fact, they were by far the worst results I've gotten with the tool. I can easily clone one of my boilerplate repos in Rails, or Django and prompt away, and the results are consistently good, as in, functional MVP in a few hours. This was never the case for the desktop tools I men…
They say they're targeting Mac only for now, so it could be native code, or they could just have not tested/refined their prompt for other platforms yet. > This was never the case for the desktop tools I mentioned. I'd be curious how well Claude Code works for a native Swift app on macOS, if that's the platform you're on. I've found it extremely good at iOS apps so my guess is it would be equally good at building a n…
I've tried using Codex and ChatGPT while working on a small SwiftUI app. It's not very good when it comes to newer APIs and features - I imagine due to lack of data about these things. Very often it would rather push something AppKit-based instead of SwiftUI.
It works, but feels really janky and messy.
I had one very annoying bug with file export API where extra view on export window would appear with a delay. No matter what I tried it didn't manage to fix it. Instead it would go on to try and completely rewrite whole file export class in various ways... which still didn't work as it claimed it would. Ended up fixing it manually by caching instance view locally.