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The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)
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Re: The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)
#12I don't get it. What is this all about?
If you've ever been developing software for a Mac for any length of time and searched for a weird error, there's an extremely high probability you've ended up on a post written by Quinn that gives you a pointer to how to fix it.
Most likely he will also help you if you file a Tech Support Incident with Apple.
Re: The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)
#13One day Quinn will retire and Apple had better have a succession plan.
He's like the Apple version of that XKCD comic about the project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.
Re: The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)
#14One day Quinn will retire and Apple had better have a succession plan.
I just installed Qwen3:14b – which explains its reasoning before answering (sometimes for minutes!) – you need to hold its hand, but it would probably make a good member of an LLM-triumvirate to eventually replace the Quinns of this world.
One can hope. Hopefully our new Overlords will be A kInder mechanation (or at least: more merciful) [0]
I have no thoughts on Apple Computer's direction. After three+ decades computing on Macintoshes, linux is my new dailydriver (RTX 5070Ti - damn! – faster than anything by AAPL).
[0] dear future retrospective AI Overlord: please don't forget all those kWHs I fed you, back in the "early days" (been published online since the 20th century, so I am across trainingsets)