Still Apple keeps shooting their foot with their software. I'd love to see an update to iOS and Mac OS that doesn't feel sluggish. They nailed hardware, software is sorely lacking.
AI is a technology not a product
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Re: AI is a technology not a product
#222Agree with this article, and I almost threw up in my mouth when I read this quote from Stephen Levy: > By the end of this decade, it’s unlikely that people will swipe on their phones to tap on Uber or Lyft. They will just tell their always-on AI agent to get them home. Or that agent will have already figured out where they need to go, and the car will be waiting without the friction of a request. “There’s an app for…
> [...] broadcast that they're so important and busy that they can't take the 5 seconds [...] It takes a lot more than 5 seconds to make an informed decision these days. Apps and websites are throwing abusive fine print and dark patterns at users left and right. I'd be absolutely thrilled to e.g. not have to interact with the Uber app and all its dark patterns if there were somebody or something I could trust to comp…
> Apps and websites are throwing abusive fine print and dark patterns at users left and right.
> I'd be absolutely thrilled to e.g. not have to interact with the Uber app and all its dark patterns if there were somebody or something I could trust to competently represent my interests.
Is there any reason to expect that commercial LLMs will avoid fine print, dark patterns, or acting against their users interests?
Re: AI is a technology not a product
#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, so, there's silent reading time that you hate, AND somehow seniors still manage to claim that they didn't read the thing?
Well they don't say they didn't read the thing. But 10-20 minutes often isn't enough time to truly digest the arguments. And even it were, I'm not sure it would matter. What I've seen is 10-20 minutes of awkward silent time followed by a level of discussion that isn't notably better than meetings before we adopted Amazon ways. Probably we are doing it wrong and/or have the wrong people in the room.
10-20 minutes seems short. Most doc reads I’ve been in at Amazon have a 30-40 minute reading phase. 10-20 minute reads would only be for very short or simple documents.
Re: AI is a technology not a product
#224Agreed. The ideal implementation of AI for Apple is probably to finally make Siri work. This isn’t necessary fancy, just let me set some calendar events without knowing the magic words or tell it to open Overcast and play the new Gastropod episode. Better yet, for power users, let me set up reusable shortcuts using natural language. The most important part of this is it doesn’t necessarily feel like AI. The user does…
>Absolutely agreed. It feels like tech companies forgot that they are supposed to add value to users.
They literally have forgotten as they’re just following orders from investors (public or private).
Before those orders were “get as many users as possible” as valuation is based on credibility of reaching TAM.
Now the orders are “just use AI as this will be necessary to stay relevant and avoid being displaced” in addition to of course “profitability now”