@daringfireball Dediu has nailed it. You’ve spent months barking up the magic LLM tree, even though the jury’s still out on whether “agentic” LLMs can ever be created that are reliable enough to justify their cost. Really, the writing’s been on the wall since Deepseek R1: LLMs are a commodity.

This is similar to Liquid Glass – where others (de With, in that case) thoughtfully map forests, these days you just count trees. I can only hope Apple has stopped listening to you🤞🏽

@daringfireball As someone who feels no affiliation to any particular world power, I tend to think of this on a case-by-case basis.

Microsoft is already generally a blight on the world, and is suspected here of having carried out what is effectively an attack on the ICC. That’s much more serious than anything Apple has done to placate your commander in chief.

Although I have to say, if the ICC matters that much to Americans, it might be worth ratifying the Rome statute, maybe?

@daringfireball This again?

Why don’t you go back and read some of your own posts about Samsung’s moon camera feature back in, whenever it was, 2023?

It’s starting to seem a little suspicious that you were able to apply a reasonable framework of authorship and artistry back then, but not now, in relation to the generative “AI” of the current bubble.

Apple has worked out that this stuff is largely snake oil. Why haven’t you?

@daringfireball You really don’t understand LLMs, huh? Nor art, to be honest, but the latter’s never been your strong point.

The fact that your LLM takes are this uncritical is making me question my long-held assumption that you understand software better than I do.