alt Hacker NewsYes, but it's also built by people who would rather tinker with AI than build MacOS apps. Intrinsic motivation is very hard to beat, especially in subtler areas like good UX or performant software.
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I think the software out of the big AI labs: OpenAI's ChatGPT MacOSX app, Anthropic Claude Code - is a sign of the future to come.
Big, feature rich, built in quick iterations - but also, in particular if you look under the hood, of extremely poor quality if measured by traditional software engineering standards (code structure as exemplified by the leaked Claude Code source code, resource usage, "buggyness" etc.).
They absolutely do not have AI-heads with PhDs writing the apps and general infra. I've met a guy that worked at Anthropic, and he was "just an engineer", so exactly that: a top guy, but not specifically AI focused, doing regular stuff there but with infinite access to the top of the crop AI.
Now look at what software they make. It speaks for itself.
OpenAI has 4,500 employees and a post-money valuation of $852 billion at its last funding round. You'd think they could get someone who specialises in writing MacOS apps to write their MacOS app.