alt Hacker NewsIt is weird. What does "agent native" mean? This looks like work that requires the use of agents to use properly.
Hence me thinking it is satire. Are we already at a point where libraries and frameworks are being written such that they require agents (from maybe paid frontier models) to properly use?
We live in strange times, if so.
Interestingly, I was just thinking of this problem today: how can I stick with react-like declarative UIs (like one I have developed myself) but yet have them abstracted over native UI frameworks of Apple, Android, even TUIs to produce native apps? What I would have expected is a fully deterministic runtime, compiler, or library approach to solving this, not an agent-driven "solution".
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> What does "agent native" mean?
Agent native is said once in this readme, following an immediate explanation and specific features.
No, there's no requirement to use agents, and others are already building tools for manually working with Construct with a purpose-built editor.
Tools like Hyperframes have already demonstrated the value in catering to agentic-first dev while offering manual inspection and editing interfaces.
Agents aren't equally good at all languages/tools, and just having a lot of training data on one ecosystem isn't enough to optimize the experience. If you read the announcement thread from the CEO there are several points made such as formal safeties against invalid states and build error messages that token-efficiently teach the agent correct usage.
> What does "agent native" mean?
https://github.com/expo/exact#1-agent-native defines it