I trust Apple to do better here; for example, after about ten years, no one has caught up to Face ID yet.

I get the form factor difference but Windows Hello (which actually works extremely well, probably due to its incubation with Xbox) came out two years before FaceID.

Anecdata of course, but my experience with Windows Hello is that it only works under perfect circumstances. Me just being positioned slightly differently in my chair is enough for it to not recognize me. As opposed to FaceID that has (for me) worked flawlessly for these past almost ten years.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that, we know the average, but we don't know how much time each of us has on this earth.

The transition effect from closed to open is so chef's kiss; the little things that set Apple apart.

So, on the one hand, we have AGI; on the other, the release page is returning 500s.

Artificial general incompetence?

I believe this is naturally occurring

Nobody can escape the dilbert phb law

Artificial intelligence will be no match for natural stupidity.

To err is to be generally intelligent

I think something about its benefiting from a harness is significantly contributing to its performance, though I honestly am not smart enough to know whether that makes it "count" more or less.

just because they have smart AI, it does not mean they are great at software and cdn.

Their entire sales pitch is based on the idea that no one will need to be any good at anything, because the AI will do it for them.

If they can't ask the AI to configure their CDN correctly, it undermines the validity of their claims. Maybe it's trivial, but any Omnipotent Machine-God deserving of the name wouldn't forget to zip up his fly.

if it's really smart AI you might expect them to have it create the software and cdn

don't they use their coding agents internally?

Always wondered why making something like a rust memory safe Firefox, Linux, vlc, ffmpeg or curl isn’t a benchmark for these LLMs.

If they can't get the blocking and tackling right, it doesn't lend confidence they are doing the more complicated stuff well.

Welcome to the future

I'm curious about the Omniscience index because OpenAI has been lagging Anthropic on it.

I find it funny that while these releases are a technological miracle, the charts in the doc use tiny fonts and are hard to read. Goes with the idea that coding might be solved, but taste isn't.

Accessibility isn't "solved," but there are certainly standards for things like color contrast. Maybe inbetween taste and coding there are better targets still being missed.

In fact, automated a11y checks and tooling is quite advanced nowadays and tragically underutilized by web developers. Now that we have llms to scale all the shitty code of front-end devs at startups, I feel increasingly hopeless about things ever improving

I wish he kept a lower profile. His public behavior risks overshadowing the work SpaceX is doing, work that could benefit humanity in ways we can’t yet fully anticipate. I wish we had more Elons pushing us toward a "future that looks like the future," as he said.

If we just don't talk about the blatant racism, the nazi salute, or that rampage about removing brown people from jobs they didn't deserve, it might stop being such a huge problem. Sure buddy.

Space exploration might help solve poverty, though. It will create new occupations, as new technology and discoveries always do.

Once you switch to another model (I've been playing with Grok, for example), you'll notice the mental overhead of reading Claude slop. It's like having an AC or a vacuum making noise in the background, then it stops and you feel relief.

I think it comes down to the healthcare trilemma: cost, access, and quality (or "cutting-edge-ness"); the US optimizes for quality and access, while countries with universal healthcare optimize for access and cost. You can only pick two.