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Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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People become so lazy after ai. Even they don't check what they commit.

Anything that goes to production should have a 4-6+ eyes rule, at least one reviewer that can review the changes in isolation. If tools or LLMs can help them with it then that's fine, but it should always be at least two humans involved, one making changes, one verifying, and if something like this happens, they're both culpable. Not that they should be blamed for it per se, but the process and their way of working s…

I cringe whenever someone suggests to just have an agent review because “it knows code better”. An ai agent wouldn’t catch a lot of things a human would flag. And before someone goes you just need to prompt it better, that’s a huge amount of work for large projects and you’re still essentially begging it to do what you want.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who’s doing it better? I have yet to hear from a Google or Amazon user who has a transformatively better experience, and I think that’s why they haven’t jumped so far because they have hundreds of millions of users who have daily habits that they don’t want to lightly disturb.

> Who’s doing it better? Any of the Whisper-based apps on the App Store.

Actually, could you recommend one? The ones I've found all seem to want subscriptions. I'm okay paying a few dollars for a well done frontend, but an ongoing sub to run an open weights model locally is nuts...

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

#124

So much FUD (and bot replies dogpiling on?) in that thread. It's just a file that specifies some structure for the project. Nothing super secret.

X somehow manages to get worse for this as time goes on. Seems like at some point most of the actual humans just gave up on replying.

Why bother replying if your post gets buried under AI bots with twitter blue (or whatever it's called now) that just try to farm engagement for money. Revenue sharing is a big mistake for every platform because it incentives engagement slop. Ordering by Newest first often gives you more human replies.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

#125
post #5

to be honest, for some reason I expected most of apple to eschew claude/ai coding. I'm not sure why. It just doesn't feel very Apple-like

Some people are living in a different universe. Every single tech company I know is pivoting their entire company to AI based software development. Its in the performance evals, the wallet is fully open to use tokens to experiment, every practice and every process is open for re-evaluation. Its all gas no breaks everywhere. The conversation on the internet does not seem to realize this? Or is in denial.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who’s doing it better? Any of the Whisper-based apps on the App Store.

Actually, could you recommend one? The ones I've found all seem to want subscriptions. I'm okay paying a few dollars for a well done frontend, but an ongoing sub to run an open weights model locally is nuts...

I’ve found this one to be useful offline with no ads:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6447090616

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

#127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Who’s doing it better? Any of the Whisper-based apps on the App Store.

Actually, could you recommend one? The ones I've found all seem to want subscriptions. I'm okay paying a few dollars for a well done frontend, but an ongoing sub to run an open weights model locally is nuts...

This is one I use with no tracking or ads:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6447090616

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

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I think it's the same reason why MacOS and iOS degraded a lot in terms of UX the past decade. The focus of Apple shifted towards hardware independence. The 2010s was marked by Intel's lazy product lineup, year after year pumping rehashes of older products, iterating on top of their 14nm lithography with increasingly minor improvements on its architecture until AMD overcame them. In the process, Apple's partnership wi…

I dunno, Apple has always had a pretty high level of hardware independence, and one could imagine even if Intel did produce great chips for longer the ARM architecture would replace it eventually. Certainly the timeline got shifted (and I'm glad for it) but I don't know if that really impacted Siri. If anything it seems like it got pushed to the bottom of the pile in favor of projects like the Apple Car and Vision Pr…

Also: Before, Apple was dependent on Intel (whose "product" is an integrated chip design and the fab to make it). Now they're dependent on TSMC (whose "product" is a fab). I'm... not really sure they've reduced their dependence? If TSMC starts falling behind Intel--which doesn't seem likely, but what happened to Intel didn't seem likely two decades ago--Apple will be stuck.

Re: Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app

#130
post #5

to be honest, for some reason I expected most of apple to eschew claude/ai coding. I'm not sure why. It just doesn't feel very Apple-like

I'm also not sure why you'd think that, Apple's been at the forefront of "AI" for years now, running models locally and optimizing their CPUs for local workloads to e.g. identify people, places and pets (much appreciated lmao), create slideshows, and subtly improve photo's made on the device.

The photo organization is nice but that being said, if you try to use the on device Apple Foundation models you quickly find it is totally useless.
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