Apple has been sitting on an outsized war chest for decades. The time to make a bold move is now.

Tired: AI Wired: Intelligent Sand

Add a :creep: emoji to Slack for highlighting out-of-band scope creep requests ✅ (It's the Radiohead album cover)

Whole thread captures what I miss about UIKit.

To expand on this: Those sitting on codebases with tons of legacy code, technical debt, and tribal knowledge will not experience the bulk of AI gains. Those that kept their abstractions tight and debt low will now accelerate faster. x.com/mitsuhiko/stat…

Apple's foundation models reject summarization about the 'granular mango serpent'. What do they know?? (This is, of course, probably a test string that made it into production.) github.com/BlueFalconHD/a…

One year ago today, @claude on GitHub seemed to actually be a human! github.com/segmentio/acti…

There’s a cursed C++ competition where programmers try to create the largest possible error message. Finalists created ~1.5GB of error messages from just 256 bytes of source. Preprocessor exploits were so easy, they had to create a separate division! Here's my favorites:

Is it just me or are iOS feature releases in the 2020s WAY more monitored and careful than in the 2010s? Gradual rollout and feature flagging *everything* is the norm. In the 2010s, we’d just test very carefully then push it out at 100%. If you messed up: Expedited Review.

If you want to experience the feeling of progress being uneven, spend a day fighting both an uncooperative SwiftUI framework and uncooperative LLMs. You'll have felt like you did a lot but, in reality, you did something that would have taken 30 minutes with UIKit in 2018.

Apple insisted this was 'production ready' for 5 years.

At some point, I hope we're able to apply AI to life's myriad 2FA login dances: 1. Go to arbitrary website 2. Login with credentials from X source 3. Intercept the SMS code from Messages.app 4. Put it in the field 5. Tap confirm Let me know when all of this is done.

Strong encryption for the masses scoring a rare and significant win. 💯 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Today, someone used the example of things getting done because they’re either ‘systematic’ or someone’s being a ‘good citizen’. It’s a good metaphor that I like. When things are ‘systematic’, progress doesn’t rely on everyone being ‘good citizens’. A more ideal place to be.

Hacker News community currently very unsure about what speed to go.

Woz is my idol.

We used this technique for Path 13 years ago. Base 64 encoded tiny B&W thumbnails were included with JSON models, and we would blur them locally (no GPU-acceleration or real time blurring back then!), cache the result, and display while downloading the full image.

Apple will no longer be forced to provide a so-called backdoor to American users’ data to the UK government, according to Tulsi Gabbard bloomberg.com/news/articles/…