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Podcast: The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly?

Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running directly on-device can deliver privacy-focused, low-latency, and cost-effective alternatives to cloud-hosted LLM wrappers. By Rachel Lee Nabors
Olimpiu Pop: Hello everybody. I'm Olimpiu Pop and I have in front of me Rachel Lee Nabors. They are quite a creative person. They did a bunch of comics, I think, right? And also, they were involved with React and React Native frameworks. And because I don't know how to put it in a better light, Rachel Lee, can you please introduce yourself? Rachel Lee Nabors: Thank you so much for the introduction. Yes, you may remember me from my pandemic babies, the react.dev and reactnative.dev portals. I worked on the React team for the pandemic. I've worked for FAANG on browsers for many years and with the W3C on web standards. But before all of that, I used to make comic books for teenage girls. I was one of the first web cartoonists that had their own personal website and mailing list, et cetera. So, I take my inspiration from Japanese comics and anime to this day. You can still find me illustrating my own slides and creating mascots for the different open source projects I work on. Olimpiu Pop: Nice. Thank you for the idea for what you put so far. So, probably my kids will read some…
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