Despite AI coding agents being capable of generating cross-platform native code from a spec and test suite, Electron still dominates desktop app development — even at Anthropic, whose Claude desktop app is built with it. The reason: coding agents excel at the first 90% of development but struggle with edge cases, real-world
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