SimonAKing

Ex @BytedanceTalk AI Engineer, now building @try_mana_app

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[SimonAKing @simon_aking]

codex 比 cc 差的最明显一点是，codex 不会提问题

cc 提的问题能发现盲点
codex 则是自己也想不清楚 就改完了

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@calicastle 很有爱的设计

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现在已经下意识养成了一个好习惯：刷到各种 AI 味很浓的帖子、评论，反手就是一个 block 🤡

怎么判断呢：理中客腔、诗歌体发言、各种排比句，看完像说了很多，其实一句人话都没有。。

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省钱小妙招

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cool, i need

[Yosorable @Yosorable]

I brought Apple's MLX into my iOS Python IDE.

You can now run Hugging Face models directly inside the app — fully on-device.

mlx-community/Qwen3-1.7B-4bit on A16: ~30 tok/s

Try on TestFlight 👇
https://t.co/qfVNGU0ohO

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https://t.co/RBZ4HDPtsK
这篇文章为什么这么火，技术思路不是很显然吗...
@raycast 也没开源啊

[SimonAKing @simon_aking]

还记得你何时加入 X 吗？我知道！#我的X周年纪念日

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看来看去，还是发到自己 weibo 是最好看的

[SimonAKing @simon_aking]

Spent the last while building Mana — a community of interactive creations made on iPhones. Trackers, games, widgets, weird little daily tools.

Tap one, run it. Remix it, ship your version. Every creation has a link you can pass around.

Waitlist: https://t.co/kJPhcAJjUV

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2026 了，swiftui 还是半成品🤪

[图拉鼎 @tualatrix]

原来 Xcode 的 Agent 功能是 SwiftUI 写的，难怪对话一长滚动起来就卡成幻灯片。SwiftUI 的性能还是不行，毕竟 Apple 自己也优化不好。

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https://t.co/sZqhdlVN4I

[Anything @anything]

Guideline 2.5.2 - Gatekeeping - Vibes denied

we haven't talked about this publicly

for months we tried to resolve it privately with emails, calls, appeals, and four technical rewrites to comply with whatever Apple wanted

here's our truth, unfiltered

on March 26th, Apple removed Anything from the App Store

then they brought us back

now they removed us again

and I think it's time to say something, because this isn't really about us. It's about who gets to build software, and who gets to decide

for most of the history of computing, making an app required years of specialized training. You either knew how to code or you didn't, and if you didn't, your idea stayed in your head forever.

that barrier is falling right now. Millions of people are discovering they can describe what they want and get a working app

they call themselves vibe coders

and they are the most exciting audience in technology

they're building things nobody else would have built because nobody else had their problems

a firefighter in Northern California used Anything to build an emergency incident response app

he never wrote a line of code. Did hundreds of iterations, testing each one on his iPad through our mobile preview app

got it into the App Store. Now he's selling it to fire departments across the state.

it would have cost him over a hundred thousand dollars to hire engineers

He spent a few hundred bucks.

That guy is why we exist. Not the technology. Him. And the millions of people like him.

our mobile app did one thing for people like him

it let them preview what they were building with Anything on their own phone. GPS, camera, notifications, things you can only test on a real device with native code

They'd iterate, try it, tweak it, try again. When they were happy, they'd submit to the App Store through the normal process

Apple reviewed it like any other app.

Our mobile app got approved last year. We didn't hear a word of concern.

then in December, they started blocking our updates, citing the infamous Guideline 2.5.2

the rule designed to prevent malicious apps from downloading code to change their behavior after review

We understood the concern, even if we disagree it applies to us. We tried to fix it. Four different technical approaches, each one specifically designed to address what they told us.

Each one rejected.

we didn't go public
we didn't tweet
we kept trying

then they pulled us from the App Store. We still didn't say anything. We worked with them, got reinstated, believed we'd found a path forward

Then they pulled us again.

at some point silence stops being patience and starts being complicity. We have builders who depend on us. They deserve to know what's happening and why.

Guideline 2.5.2 is a good rule.

apps shouldn't be able to pass review and then become something else. But that's not us. We help people preview their own work on their own device

Expo Go has done the exact same thing for professional developers for years and is on the App Store right now, today!

the only difference is our users aren't professional developers

they're the firefighter
they're the teacher building a classroom app
they're the person who discovered last week that they could build software at all

that's who Apple is locking out. Not us. Them.

and here's what I need Apple to understand

these people are the future of the App Store. Not a sideshow. The future. The number of people who can build apps is about to go from millions to hundreds of millions to eventually everyone

the platforms and tools that serve those people will determine where they build

every vibe coder who ships through Anything is a new developer in Apple's ecosystem who didn't exist a year ago

They want to build web apps, Android apps, and yes iOS apps

we help them add in-app purchases. We help them make their apps secure and scale. We catch rejection issues early. We are a feeder system for the App Store

The safety argument is hollow. Preview apps only run on the builder's own device. They're sandboxed in the Anything mobile app.

Want anyone else to use it? You still submit to the App Store. Apple still reviews every line.

We're not bypassing review.
We're a dress rehearsal for it.

but none of that matters when a reviewer sees "downloads executable code" on a checklist and reaches for reject without asking what the code is, how it actually works, or who it's for.

we're not waiting

we launched text-to-app. Text us and we'll build your iOS app in the cloud

We're shipping a desktop companion for on-device previews next.

We'll find a way to serve our builders

We always do.

but I'm done being quiet about why we have to

the people we serve, the ones crazy enough to start their own thing, building apps for their fire departments and their classrooms and their small businesses

they deserve to test what they're making on the device it's made for

that's not a loophole
that's how building works

- Apple can be the platform where the next hundred million builders get started

- or they can keep banning the tools those people depend on and watch it happen somewhere else

we all know which one the firefighter will choose

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@BH3GEI_CN 🤣 老登++

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@BH3GEI_CN 要有气度🤣

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@BH3GEI_CN

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@waylybaye 没错，Issue + 看板还是给人用的，只能提升了人机协同的效率

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@0xtonixie 我就用，蒸馏蒸馏蒸馏

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@budapp sure, I'd love to try it out

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First one with a full computer was Manus.

[Bud @budapp]

@tomosman Bud really has a full computer in a way that's def a first across all products we know of! Would love to get you EA :)