Comment by measurablefunc
12 hours ago
Their goal is to ship as fast as possible b/c they don't care about what you care about. Their objective is to gather as much data as possible & electron is good enough for that.
12 hours ago
Their goal is to ship as fast as possible b/c they don't care about what you care about. Their objective is to gather as much data as possible & electron is good enough for that.
I work at OpenAI, and I get the concern. From our side, this was a careful tradeoff: Electron lets us iterate faster and makes it possible to bring the Codex app to Windows and Linux very soon. That doesn’t mean performance or UX don’t matter—we’re actively paying attention to both.
Would genuinely love your thoughts if you try it. Early users have been surprised by how native it feels!
the problem is that getting this out in this shape the week after Cursor made $100M ARR would have made sense
getting it out now suggests there are structural problems about how decisions get made and code gets shipped—and the "iterate faster" line feels misplaced
Your AI can’t make a UI for 3 platforms? Seems pretty worthless.
I use Google's antigravity so I personally have no problem w/ electron applications. At the end of the day UI performance is not a bottleneck for me.
Aaaaand that is why we, as end users get machines which are sluggish, because literally every. Single. Application is taking this attitude.
Shock horror, the waste adds up, and it adds up extremely quickly.
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