@pixel as a developer who grew up on windows, switched to apple platforms, and recently went back to windows for work: Windows really does have this wrong. At first, I was like 'this keeping the app open thing is weird', but now I have seen the light, and miss it all the time on Windows.

@Joekw mushroom mushroom mushroom, snake argh it's a snake… quota quota quota...

@eduardobragaxz @stroughtonsmith Nope; it was never finished. It was a 'proper' UWP (same app across phone, tablet, desktop).

@stroughtonsmith this is such a flashback to the design choices we were making on Groove Music when there was about to be a Surface Mini to slot between Windows Phone, and Surface. If I wasn’t wearing my glasses this would feel exactly like the Podcasts App we were working on at the time.

@bigzaphod time to crack out the CO2 monitor and see if it’s improved that situation!

@kyle honestly, I wondered if the impact covid had on the aging population might have resulted in a significant transfer of wealth to the younger generation. But it didn’t seem to.

Unexpected second order outcomes relative expected outcomes is much more unpredictable

@kyle Does it ‘no op’ out in release builds? E.g. constant-ises the value so that it has zero-runtime cost, or maybe even optimizes away branches?

@kyle nothing breaks down, it’s just something different when we’re at the beck & call of what the spicy auto complete told us to do that day. No-one has to be happy or sad ever again because we’ve lost all entropy.

@kyle on what basis is the next president determined by what those that chose the training data steer towards?

What happens when we willingly give up free will in the most explicitly implicit way possible?

@stroughtonsmith seems ripe for a bunch marking app to be published!

@carnage4life pretty strongly held opinions, moderately held with a reasonable amount of conviction, but be ready to relinquish that opinion in the face of additional new data that requires a change in the pretty strongly held opinion.

How you know Apple is behind on AI: 'agentic' is not in the default iOS or macOS dictionary.

@kyle But you don’t understand, _my_ craft is more human than _that other persons craft_.

@kyle only 12? Sales really are tanking.

@mergesort It’s pronounced SQL ‘ite, as in a contraction of ‘alright’, saying it’s good. Per the original ancient street english.

More seriously, the number of conversations that are “I need to store structured data, I should make a binary format” that should just be ‘SQLite go brr’ is quite high.

@kyle @stevestreza I don’t know if it’s right to phrase it as “could not have gotten there as confidently”. You are more capable than you think, many others did do this before you as successfully. Did it make it lower-effort? Maybe! Did it make it possible? I don’t think it’s right to ascribe overcoming the impossible to it.

@kyle There is a paradox here. The cost of delivery of such advanced models is cost prohibitive at scale (power is complex; you cant build enough power over night), and delivery of silicon is also constrained. Thus investing your best engineers (AI or otherwise) in shrinking models, increasing their performance, while maintaining evals leads to raise profits leads to the logical conclusion of running on device.

At which point the hyperscale moat is gone.

Which do the hyperscalers choose?

@mergesort Huh. If it’s running tests, it’s building! I didn’t expect iOS targeted Swift to build on linux containers. Pretty great if it’s doing that!

@mergesort Were these iOS features — if so, how were these ‘validated’ by Codex? E.g., surely codex isn’t building & running within the codex environment?

@kyle @mattiem @tonyarnold You sailed too close to the sun, and your wax melted. (aka it sounded too real, because some people *are* saying what you said, unironically!)