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He would have understood the potential of LLMs straight away. If he would have delivered a successful product no one knows but 100% would have understood how LLMs could become another interface to computers.

I think his pitch would have been like garage band but for making apps “now anyone can make an app” feels very Jobsian.

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There's this old gem about being able to ask Aristotle a question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YzLMPm3Jgw

I suspect Jobs would have held off for a few years just to see where the road is going before making a move. In that sense, Apples current lack of real dedicated to move into the LLM space has become a happy accident. They have avoided the hype cycle and the potential blow back once the more exuberant part of the AI craze fade away.

They have pulled an accidental Jobs move.

Why are you sure it was an accident? Couldn't the people who rose up the ranks around his orbit have learned the right lessons, and this having been very intentional?

I don’t think so, I think he would have thought Apple could deliver a better user experience (LLM Siri) and gone into it whole heartedly.

My perspective is that Apple doesn’t hold off to see what the market is doing. They hold off until technology can create a viable, usable product (iPhone was ahead of anything, Vision Pro less impactful but similarly advanced, iPod was smaller than any hdd based mp3 player - just some examples where they pushed the boundaries).

They 100% missed the transformer being a technology that could create a viable product, and I don’t think Steve Jobs would have missed that.

He for sure would loathe their current state though. They are a perfectionist's nightmare and detrimental to many brands. He wouldn't even allow Apple^Red for his friend's charity- there's no way he would let AI slop come from Apple products.

100% would hate to see the current state of Siri, and then even worse that others are doing what Apple can’t.

I agree that I don’t think he’d want slop, but I do think he would want Siri to be like ChatGPTs conversations, and he would have loved Claude Code.

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