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To make Siri AI work each of your Apple devices need to perform an indexing step. This is such a key element of allowing that feature to work that Apple are now doing the indexing in the latest iOS 26 versions, so that users don't have to wait
Apple have finally made Siri useful. Partly because they paired it with an LLM, which is really good at taking human rambling, combining that with a data source and turning it into output. But also because they've thrown away the tower of cocktail sticks and chewing gum it
Leasing a computer will prove to be a good deal for those of us who want to stay up to date with our hardware, especially as chips get better at doing local AI. Yes, I could sell the computer myself as I upgrade each time, but I have had horrible
I think the answer to my previous post turned out to a resounding yes, it could be done. Siri AI I'm still in the waiting list, but those who have it are impressed. If I was ChatGPT or Anthropic and was hoping that my free version was going
It's nice to see that Apple have learned that covering menus with icons is bad UI, as written about by various people when they messed it up in Tahoe. But this still isn't right. The header image is their new HIG example . But those menu items
We're less a week away from Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) and everyone is looking for this to be the one where they finally make the announcements from 2024 come true. I thought it would be useful to go through what they announced back in 2024
I'm currently in the midst of introducing agentic engineering to a team that's been working together and doing things what is quickly becoming "the old fashioned way" for over 4 years. As part of that process we've been putting together our LLM
Training an LLM has become such a common practice now that people are doing it on pre-1930s text just for a laugh . There are absolute benefits to having a massive compute cluster , a whole team of talented staff and a big pile of money - but there are limits to
Recognising that LLM driven software development isn't about to disappear overnight (as much as some of us would like it to) we're trying to codify some of the do's and don'ts of this new world we find ourselves in. The first item
Nilay Patel is always one of the smartest people in tech media, so it's no surprise that his piece THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION is spreading. I agree with the conceit that people do not have software brain. As someone cursed with this particular affliction, dealing
Microsoft have published an open-letter to employees and players called " We are Xbox " in which they recognise some of the mistakes they've made over the past few years. It's hard to know whether or not they actually understand the problems, but let us focus
I've just returned from a family trip around Europe where we visited 10 countries in 14 days. We started off in Scotland, and then visited England (1), France (2), Italy (3), Malta (4), Spain (5), France again, Monaco (6), Italy again, Switzerland (7), Germany (8), Luxembourg (9), Belgium
What’s the consumer AI story? The one that makes the investment money worth it? The average person doesn't think in terms of automation, even those that have a task that could be automated. I have a software brain and still haven't found something I
On a couple of different Jason Snell podcasts this week, he spoke about an ex-colleague on the sales side who said "You need to be considered to be bought" as an explanation for why you would do brand advertising. This is because of the previous part of this
It's becoming clear in the AI development apocalypse that a lot of developers saw themselves as master woodworkers. The code they wrote was hand-crafted, artisanally produced, and even the back of the cabinet was sanded and varnished. Not a byte was out of place. Now they're