Senior Software Engineer, Native Mobile, Remote - USA - Coinbase | Adam Wolf

kept by eddie oct 13

Coinbase is migrating its consumer trading app from React Native to fully native Swift and Kotlin, citing AI coding agents that halve feature‑building costs and improve performance.

Helix: The internal tool powering our Shopify app's native migration (2026) - Shopify
Helix uses small checkpoints and strict quality gates to reliably rebuild the Shopify app from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin.
also on #kotlin, React Native, #swift, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Shopify is abandoning React Native for its mobile apps and rewriting them natively in Swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android.
also on #kotlin, React Native, #swift, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Read Less, Steer More : ezyang's blog
Prevent cognitive overload from reading AI-generated code by treating agents as fast typists rather than autonomous teammates, steering them actively.
also on AI coding agents, #user-experience, #ai-coding, #software-engineering, #developer-tools
Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.
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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
A security researcher built a deliberately vulnerable Firebase-based app and spent $1,500 testing whether LLMs could exploit it; GPT-5.5 succeeded 70% of the time, while most others failed due to guardrails or misdirected focus.
also on React Native, #ai-integration, #ai-coding, #developer-tools