working on services at @expo
Helsinki, Finland
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Most of my work recently has been done prompting on the phone with @t3dotcodes app. Seriously considering making my next dev setup iPhone Duo and a mac mini.
Astra is by far the laziest model on the market. Poking it to do work all the time is so exhausting.
As an experiment I am rewriting my Expo app to Swift and adding a macOS desktop version. Turns out the biggest performance problem is... the macOS itself. Often takes couple hundred ms to show a popup and there's little there that can be done if I want the app to stay 'native'.
It’s a weird feeling to see gaming parts market totally frozen in time. My GPU costs ~the same as it did in 2022. Buying PS5 is still a valid choice. Something unthinkable in 2010s.
I have an app using Expo UI. Since it’s a popular thing recently I ported it to plain UIKit. Looks like there are things we could make lighter!
Funny thing is I couldn’t tell apart the apps because obviously it doesn’t get any more native than SwiftUI in Expo.
Great thread. Lots of similar thoughts from building SaaS dashboards in the AI era
Opus 5.5 can get so much done within the weekly limit but sometimes I am impressed how fast a dozen of parallel background agents can quickly kill a session limit
I continue to be impressed that iOS autocorrect still cannot understand why I fixed a word that it incorrectly replaced and immediately tries to do it again. It’s been years. Some of the oldest piece of UX slop out there.
Tomek Czajecki retweeted
a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers
when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore
the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art
Still can’t get used to how weird talking to Astra is.
Just had another situation where I discussed a task with Astra over several messages and then added one follow up question. It replied to the question and just stopped completely. It couldn’t give me any good reason why.
Opus 5.5 seems to be a big step forward in design and visual work. It did a really cool terminal aesthetic redesign of my blog with barely any course corrections.
