I feel like a lot of folks down here are focusing too much on the agent part. That's purely marketing. No one who worked on the service, I am sure, was building exclusively for agent usage.

This is simply the framing device that all marketing needs to present these days.

Of course it's just marketing, but that doesn't mean it's above criticism, especially when it's shoved so hard down our throats.

"Please stop talking about the thing we can't stop talking about"

My Mac Studio with 96GB of RAM is maybe just at the low end of passable. It's actually extremely good for local image generation. I could somewhat replace something like Nano Banana comfortably on my machine.

But I don't need Nano Banana very much, I need code. While it can, there's no way I would ever opt to use a local model on my machine for code. It makes so much more sense to spend $100 on Codex, it's genuinely not worth discussing.

For non-thinking tasks, it would be a bit slower, but a viable alternative for sure.

You just need to adjust your workflow to use the smaller models for coding. It's primarily just a case of holding them wrong if you end up with worse outputs.

...Does AI suck at front-end? This is news to me.

We already have Astro

We stood still on Intel 14nm for YEARS, then a few years of decent progress, and now this. Moore's law is taking a beating.

Moore's law only really works when at least part of the world is functioning under practically ideal conditions. Right now that's far from what's happening.

Unless maybe it's headless, then I still expect a component library or something. Still, I see nothing.

It's more like ReactJS/SolidJS (but in Rust) rather than a component library like Bootstrap. Although I definitely agree the home page can do a much better job of explaining this.

All knowledge started as someone's opinion. The goal isn't to avoid opinions, it's to stress-test them. That's exactly what HN is for.

As others have said, that's just not the reality of a modern work machine. If I need a new GPU or more RAM, I'm positive I need everything else upgraded too

I guess they can't afford it, but my ego is telling me I could do this.

I like the promise, but the hill is very steep and I don't see much on delivery here. Very hopeful, but I would rather see this kind of thing launch significantly further than where it is at. This appears to be a good base, now let's see it again when there is Text support, animations, transitions, filters, etc.

We actually already support text, transitions, and animation of basic properties as well as some filters. I would be interested to hear more about your use case and which capabilities you felt were missing from what you saw.

I am always on the lookout for a tool that can replace Premiere first of all, but that that is easy to do. Replacing After Effects, no one has ever accomplished, even remotely close. I have actually been able to somewhat (big asterisk here) use Remotion in some instances as an AE replacement.

I can use Remotion for example, to design any kind of animation in code, and overlay it on video, which, especially with AI, lets me do quite a lot.

One thing I did for a while, was render some assets, and then with remotion I created a template, and a script, that would pump out videos automatically. Think similar in concept to like, a Daily Mail news video, where its just some music, some footage, and some text overlayed. Every video is the same, they just need to drag and drop some assets in and click Go. Remotion was great for that.

Still, I made the actual assets for the graphics in after effects. In mine, a date would "glitch" onto the screen and then glitch out. Probably possible to do with code, obviously, but was much more complicated than using AE to design that.