This week’s discussion of the ChatGPT app and its move to Electron merits a link to my evergreen article The Persistent Gravity of Cross Platform:
At the highest level, cross-platform UI technologies prioritize coordinated featurefulness over polished simplicity.
I’ve added a coda to that article about how coding agents actually strengthen the argument for Electron on large teams, at least for now.
The initial release of the new ChatGPT app has been clumsy – there’s a lot of work to do to get Electron ChatGPT (née Codex) as polished as it should be. But, like it or not, cross-platform code is the least-bad way to coordinate a massive team on a rapidly changing product.