Some people are living in a different universe. Every single tech company I know is pivoting their entire company to AI based software development. Its in the performance evals, the wallet is fully open to use tokens to experiment, every practice and every process is open for re-evaluation. Its all gas no breaks everywhere. The conversation on the internet does not seem to realize this? Or is in denial.
I think OP's comment comes from the "Think Different" mysticism that used to be around Apple. You'd think that if there was one company on the planet not embracing slop, it would be Apple, and the realization that it's not the case can be a bummer.
"Slop" means low effort/low accountability. It is independent of the tools used in development.
"slop" and "vibe coding" are derogatory terms about the level of effort - e.g. little to no human review of quality or accuracy, or accountability/concern related to the output.
I can’t tell if “all gas no breaks” was intentional or not, but “no breaks” does seem to be a part of the culture shift within big tech around AI.
Yeah, and we seem to talk everyday about how they are all getting shittier. I'm sure its just coincidence though.
Well, that "different universe" includes the tech company that employs me. I like my universe better.
Because unlike Apple Intelligence, Claude is useful?
"What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds." — Steve Jobs.
Feels like the most apple-like thing ever. Everyone seems to have differing perceptions of apple.
They've had it built in to Xcode for a while now, and I imagine internally a lot longer.
I'm also not sure why you'd think that, Apple's been at the forefront of "AI" for years now, running models locally and optimizing their CPUs for local workloads to e.g. identify people, places and pets (much appreciated lmao), create slideshows, and subtly improve photo's made on the device.
The photo organization is nice but that being said, if you try to use the on device Apple Foundation models you quickly find it is totally useless.
Why? It’s 1000x faster than most developers and can handle pretty hard problems.
we'll see if the tradeoff for speed is quality soon enough.