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If your iOS project has more than 700 files... you might be doing it wrong?
Bear in mind 600 of those files are icon and screenshot variants for various screen dpis and spec ratios..
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I wrote about this idea here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go... Quick summary, I believe consumer AI experiences will feature ads because the profit opportunity is too large and company valuations depend on it. The hiring of Fidji Simo (ads at Facebook) at OpenAI + and just this week, Vijaye Raji/Statsig also point that way.
We’re in a golden period where AI results are ad-free. One thing I’ve been doing is querying and storing results. For example, “what are the best books on X topic” for every topic I can possibly think that I may want to read about in the future. I’ve found the results to be amazing if you give a sufficiently detailed prompt. I have enough reading to see me through to exit.
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I wrote about this idea here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go... Quick summary, I believe consumer AI experiences will feature ads because the profit opportunity is too large and company valuations depend on it. The hiring of Fidji Simo (ads at Facebook) at OpenAI + and just this week, Vijaye Raji/Statsig also point that way.
ChatGPT is already returning lists of products (with photos and rating) saying they are impartial, I guess to collect affiliate fees. It's not a big jump to have sponsored products showing up first.
More likely the model will be payment for low friction enablement of transactions rather than overt steering. Pick Door #1: the LLM states the product is fit for purpose. Pick Door #2: the LLM will directly complete the transaction or close to it.
isn't this useless with Claude Code now?
absolutely no. Alex is heavily optimized for xcode. If you work on an ios project that has more than 700 files, you'll understand how accurate it captures the context.
Is there a reason why the Claude cannot do the same thing?
Daniel and his team did a great job at doing what Apple wasn't but I can't help but feel this was an inevitable outcome.
So companies like this one are being acquired because they just have really good/niche system prompts? I mean, they all use the same models as everyone else, right?
I'm speculating here, but my guess is that the urgency for OpenAI isn't that the Alex team has a "secret prompt." It's that they've already done the heavy lifting to make LLM coding assistants actually usable in a domain (Apple platforms) where OAI doesn't have integrations yet. Acquiring them gives OAI: - ready-made team that understands the IDE plumbing and the developer UX at a deep level - head start in a platfor…
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We’re in a golden period where AI results are ad-free. One thing I’ve been doing is querying and storing results. For example, “what are the best books on X topic” for every topic I can possibly think that I may want to read about in the future. I’ve found the results to be amazing if you give a sufficiently detailed prompt. I have enough reading to see me through to exit.
By the time this „golden“ ad free time is over in 1-2 years you should be able to run your own custom model locally
At this rate it’s better to start a company and get aquihired vs applying and getting hired. Seems like OpenAI speed ran through the Facebook phase and are out of ideas
Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.
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Just by the nature of the product, the manipulation will be a lot more subtle, and likely more successful than traditional ads..
So far it's about as subtle as a slap to the face. If you set ChatGPT's personality to 'straight-shooting' it starts every answer with "blunt", "tell it like it is" or "unvarnished" and permeates that across the whole reply; by its very nature, it is unable to be subtle about anything.
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So far it's about as subtle as a slap to the face. If you set ChatGPT's personality to 'straight-shooting' it starts every answer with "blunt", "tell it like it is" or "unvarnished" and permeates that across the whole reply; by its very nature, it is unable to be subtle about anything.
That hasn't been true for a while IME. Did you select 'Robot' as the personality?