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

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Post by newsclues »

threetonesun wrote: post #28
gchamonlive wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

A series is their own chip design, not Power PC or Intel designs.

It's the CPUs they have built for their purposes, which is next level hardware independence.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

gchamonlive wrote: post #16
stefan_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, but why is the Siri team sitting out transformers. I really wanna move past the „Dragon Naturally Speaking“ experience with a bolted on decision tree.

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…

It's one of the biggest and wealthiest companies in the world, but your comment seems to imply they have to pick and choose what they pursue. They really don't, especially if it's hard- vs software.

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

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Post by ihaveajob »

j-kent wrote: post #15
ramon156 wrote: post #14

Unrelated: Yuck. a lot of those replies have LLM smells. Do people love being a hollow puppet for LLMs to fill in? Have people lost their identity?

It's not about contributing to the conversation — it's about the fake internet points.

I find it hilarious that your comment has an emdash.

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

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Post by pfisherman »

realusername wrote: post #39
gchamonlive wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 always found that Apple had pretty mediocre software qualify, it's always been a very strong hardware company first and foremost. They have great kernel, drivers and low level engineering but the stack above that has a lot of questionable stuff.

The comment above is on to something. I find CarPlay to much more valuable and much more of a lock in to the iPhone than Siri. I do not think I could ever go back to using the infotainment systems that ship with cars. So makes sense why they might prioritize over Siri. And in the context of CarPlay, the simplicity of Siri is nice. I really only need it to execute a few simple commands like looking up directions, making calls, reading / sending texts, playing a podcast, etc.

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

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Post by barumrho »

wenc wrote: post #44
acdha wrote: post #34

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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.

Right now Alexa+ and Gemini are objectively better. The best is ChatGPT voice mode. It understands non English words and accents amazingly well, and even though the LLM model isn’t the full fledged one, I can have deep conversations with it for an hour without it missing a beat.

Siri doesn't need to have conversations with you. ChatGPT can do that. But, it should be able to do actions you'd do on your phone.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ramon156 wrote: post #14

Unrelated: Yuck. a lot of those replies have LLM smells. Do people love being a hollow puppet for LLMs to fill in? Have people lost their identity?

Only a matter of time (if not already) before there's counter-LLMs or whatnot that convince free-reign LLM agents to go and generate cryptocurrencies for the attacker or run propaganda campaigns.

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

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Post by BoredPositron »

acdha wrote: post #34
stefan_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, but why is the Siri team sitting out transformers. I really wanna move past the „Dragon Naturally Speaking“ experience with a bolted on decision tree.

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.

Here have an anecdote: Gemini Assistant is pretty good.

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

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

suyavuz wrote: post #42

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 should be reviewed.

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

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Post by einsteinx2 »

rvnx wrote: post #47
engineer_22 wrote: post #38

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Risk of embarrassment is too great to be vibe coding, apple's brand is TRUST and people don't trust AI... A slip like this erodes their brand

Not really, almost all active software developers use AI nowadays. The research surveyed 121.000 developers across 450+ companies. A striking 92.6% of them use an AI coding assistant at least once a month, and roughly 75% use one weekly It's weird to believe that large corporations should be ashamed to use AI. It's a standard engineering practice, otherwise it's like if you refuse autocomplete because autocomplete is…

Especially considering that Apple added it as a headline feature to the latest Xcode releases…

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

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Post by phrotoma »

acdha wrote: post #34
stefan_ wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okay, but why is the Siri team sitting out transformers. I really wanna move past the „Dragon Naturally Speaking“ experience with a bolted on decision tree.

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.

Yesterday my google home mini gave me the current temperature in farenheit. I live in Canada and use a pixel. Dumbest fucking AI going. May as well give it to me in coulombs per hectare.
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