Juicy intro from Nikita Prokopov:

In “Why is Claude an Electron App?” Drew Breunig wonders:

Claude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app.

If code is free, why aren’t all apps native?

And then argues that the answer is that LLMs are not good enough yet. They can do 90% of the work, so there’s still a substantial amount of manual polish, and thus, increased costs.

But I think that’s not the real reason. The real reason is: native has nothing to offer.