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It's "orderly", don't you know!

Yeah, the section expanding on how they evaluated Mythos internally is a bit baffling considering how irrelevant it is.

Absolutely. I look forward to a time where we have on-device small models as an OS-level service you can rely on (a bit like what Apple's doing with Foundation Models). I was recen…

I think the enthusiasm for Codex coincided with the extended period of degraded quality CC was experiencing around a couple of months ago? During that time I cancelled my Claude su…

I've always loved using a (simulated) Mellotron when making music, without being consciously clued in to which songs first got me hooked on it, but you've just made me realise it w…

Yikes. I’m going to have to close my app that uses the Bing API, as this makes it completely unsustainable.

In my experience, it's not so much that the power user has disappeared, but their power user "surface" has been squeezed. I work in an environment where I see journalists using clu…

Is "the agenda" not a bit of a conspiratorial way of looking at it though? It's been notoriously difficult for creators to find mainstream outlets to tell stories about, to use you…

Is your outrage that they’re commissioning content that reflects a diversity of experience?

I think this was an art choice rather than technical inexperience. The proportions of the field models are more similar to the chibi sprites of the SNES games, so we’re seeing the …

I like the format! Something about organising your thinking into tweet-sized chunks lends itself to a nice pace for telling stories. Your TLDR certainly doesn’t retain any of the a…

It is amazing how what might seem like fairly routine engineering jobs become completely nightmarish once you do it underground. I used to commute via Goodge Street every day. A fe…

I once negatively reviewed a drone on Amazon. Their EMEA boss emailed me out of the blue wanting to set up a phone conversation to convince me otherwise. Really needy and gross! I …

I mostly rely on audio turn by turn walking directions (in London) and was surprised how bad Google Maps was. For example, it would give directions like “head south on High Street”…

All this time I thought they were using an amazing heuristic to infer password requirements from the page

And in many cases the model Apple enforces is not particularly generalisable. For example, the Apple TV content search model only allows for TV shows to consist of x seasons of y e…

And apparently can't use two adjacent USB ports! Non-issue indeed...

I agree there's not an elegant UI solution beyond "use master branch's licence unless current branch has one" but it doesn't seem like too much of an edge case to me, particularly …

The Microsoft AutoUpdate client on OSX is a beautiful mess for this. doing anything else > Microsoft AutoUpdate starts bouncing in the dock > Modal "There are no updates for your M…

I particularly like that in this case apparently a picture of a sunflower is a perfectly acceptable icon for "Photos"

1080i50 is a ubiquitous broadcast standard in the UK.

The whole "developer relations as Bigfoot" trope doesn't ring true when it comes to WebKit, in my experience. I've had Apple developers reach out to me when I've mentioned WebKit b…