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Apple Pass Designer

563 points · 337 comments · soheilpro

  1. danpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
    This is exactly the sort of software that was hard to prioritise before LLMs, and trivial to build with LLMs.

    There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.

    The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.

    1. latexr · · focus · HN ↗
      Apple is a multi-trillion dollar corporation. They spent billions on a doomed car project which never saw the light of day. They release unfinished software on an unsustainable schedule. Their software quality has been declining for over a decade. Their design is lacklustre now and issues go unaddressed indefinitely. They are shoving ads everywhere.

      The last thing they need is more things to get distracted with. They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.

      1. xyst · · focus · HN ↗
        > They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.

        Bro dropping truth nukes.

        Under Tim Cook regime, it has authorized $877B in stock buybacks, and is very likely to continue under this new leadership.

        The decline in quality aligns with how much capital is returned to shareholders.

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