One of React Native's largest maintainers is reversing a six-year platform bet because AI agents changed the cost calculus of maintaining two native codebases, a concrete sign agentic coding is already reshaping real architecture decisions at scale.
“Native still means building and maintaining software on two platforms, that cost has not disappeared. What changed is that agents can now do enough of the implementation, translation, testing, and review work that it’s no longer the deciding factor it was in 2020.”
“It's a well-written post, which gives full credit to React Native as a great platform for the six years they were using it.”
Simon Willison
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