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Hah, Potemkin Office Suite. Next, Potemkin OS and Potemkin phones?

Maybe that's many are convinced AI can replace developers, they can only see the surface of software and think there's not much more underneath it...

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Potemkin == Omarchy

I don’t trust anything made by DHH now. He merged a PR that rewrote ttfx from rust to Claude generated asm (despite contributor objections) and then turned around and merged another that rewrote all of that into rust.

Which is to say that a normal organization would not be changing things so quickly based on the whims of a single individual.

Maybe I’d be ok to use omarchy just for fun, but could never use it seriously in any capacity.

Don't kick the man so hard. It must be at that point he discovered that ASM is not actually portable across CPU architectures.

Do you have a link for me?

https://github.com/omacom/ttfx/pull/35

Thanks.

In the case of Microsoft Office native desktop applications the LLMs can figure out everything underneath through a mix of decompiling the binaries, reading the product documentation, and exploratory testing. Some SaaS is more opaque.

This is not true, most software can't be reverse engineered even if you had all of the source code, much less if you just have the binary.

Functionality piles on top of each other, products are such a garbled mess with fixes built on top of shaky grounds all over.

20% of software is code, 30% is design/strategy/marketing/telemetry/usage, rest of the 50% is lots and lots of stuff baked into software from user feedback over the decades.

Any software product that isn't in a similar balance is just crap to use, for instance Windows it's 20-30% code, 60-70% marketing/ads and the rest 10-20% bug fixes..

There is 0 user feedback being addressed.

In my opinion, AI is the thing that should be a wake up call for software companies to actually build on top of feedback proactively and with sharp intent.

I don't think you've been paying attention to what's happened in the last few months. The LLMs have gotten way better at reverse engineering and design. They might not be great at building a whole new product from scratch but cloning an existing mature application will be no problem within a year at most.

I work in a neolab/ai product company with LLMs all day. If I don't know what's been happening I am really not sure who does.

> but cloning an existing mature application will be no problem within a year at most

Good luck and please notify us about the progress.

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