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@viticci It’s worse than that though. Doing something quickly, in reflexive reaction to the state of the competition, almost certainly won’t result in anything longterm. They need a competitive personal AI that’s the foundation for decades to come.

It's not just that Siri is "bad": the issue is that as people get used to basic LLM features, it increasingly feels like a product from 10 years ago.

Comparison of asking Siri to find the contents of a note Vs. Notion AI.

The 'Use Model' action in Shortcuts is a stopgap for power users, not something that most people can approach. Their Foundation models also feel like models from 2/3 years ago.

Apple needs to throw away Siri and replace it with an LLM with App Intents tool-calling ASAP.

Proof that I love you all in my timeline is that when life was a mess like it’s been this week and I opened Tweetbot to 300 unread tweets, I just scrolled to top.

With you in Mona, I caught up. It took me a while, but I’ve read you.

ChatGPT and other AI services are basically killing @Iconfactory and I'm not exaggerating or being hyperbolical.

First Twitter/Elon killed our main app revenue that kept the lights on around here, then generative AI exploded to land a final blow to design revenue.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"
This is exactly what the internet is for.

ChatGPT kept telling people this software had a certain feature that it didn't have, so the developers decided to implement it. Normally *people* use ChatGPT to vibe code, this is the first instance I'm aware of of *ChatGPT* using people to vibe code!

https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists | Holovaty.com

Thoroughly enjoyed learning about the first steps of the Omnigroup in the last MPU
https://overcast.fm/+AAFrCFj11zM
804: From NeXT to Liquid Glass, with Ken Case — Mac Power Users

Ken Case is the CEO at The Omni Group and has been developing for Apple platforms for decades. He shares with Stephen and David how he got his start in technology, what Apple gear he uses, his approach to customer communication, and his thoughts on WWDC.

Yeah, this matches what I’ve seen: Windsurf with Sonnet 3.7 works well with SwiftUI, doesn’t play nice with Swift Concurrency and often has timeout issues.

In my experience though it breaks everything when it tries to refactor views into smaller views, there it really needs human help.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything

I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code

Indragie Karunaratne has "been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a native Mac app for debugging …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Thank you #Xcode, that was super helpful 🫠
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I'm feeling like overall, there are usability gains in the Liquid Glass UI, but, boy, it's going to take some creative adjustments to compensate for the additional screen real estate it takes up.

@agiletortoise Old layout BTW looks like it did lack some trailing and leading margin at the display edges anyway (for optimal visual balance). And 7 is a lot. 5 tabs or 6 toolbar buttons is reasonable.

What do the Up Arrow and Down Arrow do? Do they navigate / flip pages? Don’t they ask to be re-arranged into vertical stack for easier spacial mapping into muscle memory?

@agiletortoise 💯 this. I’ve already been reaching out to clients: “You know all those tab/tool bar items you have? Which ones are *really* important to you?…”
@agiletortoise why are the controls not further down?
@agiletortoise you’re not using enough “…” menus, Greeg! More “…”!
@agiletortoise this is my NUMBER ONE complaint about Apple’s UI for the past 10 years: Every time they redesign something all the stupid little thingies get bigger and bigger and more spread out. RIP information density