Chewy.com deliberately indicates that its boxes are for cats.

Also, their brown paper filler is loved by my cat. He doesn’t like Amazon packaging paper, but is all over Chewy paper. I wonder if they add a scent.

The language doesn’t really matter. The underlying SDK/framework is where the action is at.

However, I suspect that we may not be too far off, from LLMs being the true cross-platform system. You feed the same requirements, with different targets, and it generates full native apps.

> perhaps praying that the bug had magically disappeared on its own, with no effort from Apple.

I suspect that this is a common approach. It maybe even works, often enough, to make it standard practice.

For myself, I've stopped submitting bug reports.

It's not the being ignored, that bothers me; it's when they pay attention, they basically insist that I become an unpaid systems engineering QC person, and go through enormous effort to prove the bug exists.

One of the features of my work, these days, is that I work alone. I worked in [pretty high-functioning] teams, for most of my career.

Teams are how you do big stuff. I’m really good at what I do, but I’ve been forced to reduce my scope, working alone. I do much smaller projects, than our team used to do.

But the killer in teams, is communication overhead, and much of that, is imposed by management, trying to get visibility. If the team is good, they often communicate fine, internally.

Most of the examples he gave, are tools of management, seeking visibility.

But it’s also vital for management to have visibility. A team can’t just be a “black box,” but a really good team can have a lot of autonomy and agency.

You need good teams, and good managers. If you don’t have both, it’s likely to be less-than-optimal.