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Cake day: June 24th, 2024

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  • LLMs often fail at the simplest tasks. Just this week I had it fail multiple times where the solution ended up being incredibly simple and yet it couldn’t figure it out. LLMs also seem to „think“ any problem can be solved with more code, thereby making the project much harder to maintain.

    LLMs won’t replace programmers anytime soon but I can see sketchy companies taking programming projects by scamming their clients through selling them work generated by LLMs. I‘ve heard multiple accounts of this already happening and similar things happened with no code solutions before.


  • Reminds me of people who described themselves as „no code developers“ before the whole AI hype when they were using stuff like webflow. This job title always bothered me and made me think they were afraid of code or something since making a similar site with a good CMS is not complicated and scales much better and I couldn’t see why you would wanna go full no-code.



  • The reason people use Electron in the first place is that they wanna share a codebase between web, desktop and possibly mobile.

    While Flutter can technically do that, the web apps it outputs are atrocious with poor usability and accessibility. It’s drawing the whole UI on a canvas element which causes all kinds of issues.



  • For anyone considering Electron: take a look at Tauri. It’s another way to build cross-platform apps with web tech. It will use the OS‘s web rendering engine instead of shipping Chromium which results in much smaller binaries and faster startup times and less RAM usage. You can also write native code in Rust. It’s like Electron but good.