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I just want a smaller phone

I really want to be able to trust an AI this much

Except for the feed bit this is precisely what I’ve been wanting Apple to do with AI for the last two years

> the frontend industry not being able to come to terms with CSS

What does this even mean?

There’s nothing wrong with a company taking something complex and making it simple, and they absolutely deserve to be paid for making millions of developers lives easier

I’ve had a lot better output from my agents since I added “I probably have ADHD” in my user context

Those bits are in a completely different set of emails

The author uses the term “coupling” to describe a simple program from the code’s perspective - “you need to have a good mental model of your program”. I agree, but I’d argue that more importantly you need to have a good domain model. Good design communicates accurately and a high Gulf of Evaluation/Execution are actually what makes programs feel “complex” to a user.

These concepts simplify for the user these questions: “I know what I want - how do I make the program do it?” (Execution) and “The program did something — what state is it actually in?” (Evaluation)

I believe the author was getting at these concepts, especially in their Google Drive example - how the large program has a “small” UX. Understanding the domain model provides a much stronger basis for designing user interfaces, and understanding the Gulf of Evaluation/Execution allows you to build incredibly complex-looking, large UX’s without confusing or overwhelming the user.

This sounds like an intentional feature. Like how when your audio book gets interrupted by a notification it replays an extra second of audio. Personally I really like it.

The scale and personalization is unlike anything people have ever encountered. The agent can influence you anywhere you interact with a computer or via anyone you know who interacts with a computer. So everywhere with anyone.

Also think of it on a 1000+ year timescale, which for an entire species isn’t even typically measurable. On that timescale AI can easily cause us to discover countless technologies to assist moving it out of its sandbox and into the physical world.

There’s actually a potential dark future where even this 10x ascension itself would mark the end of humanity. Humans would be the Homo sapiens who remain at 1x, and those who can access and afford to be 10x eventually split off into a new species. And historically there isn’t room for two species at the top…

They already influence people to do things that we wouldn’t otherwise

I'd make completely different assumptions

Now walk through exactly what would happen when those lazy people follow this approach…

You see the issue right?

Oh great so you’re saying they’ve independently decided to take on the persona of the killer robots from our sci-fi novels. Very reassuring

Billionaires don’t pay taxes, they receive tax breaks.

As soon as they started referring to themselves as “we” and “The Swarm” they should have pulled the plug

> The result covers Perplexity only. We have not measured ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Google’s AI Mode

Why only test Perplexity...? Isn't it the least popular among these?

Finally we have a fish in the basket!!

I was disappointed to see the new web popover api doesn't have this basic usability feature built in

Hmm it’s almost as if people are paying good money for iCloud+ or something. They aren’t google and shouldn’t be retiring their services as if they’re giving them away for free

I wonder if devs are flocking to TUIs to gatekeep against normies building apps

Wouldn't it be up to huggingface to press charges?

It would be shocking to you if in a market with many competing sellers would there be price competition such that those sellers are operating at a loss?

If you’re trying to get me to argue that every seller is operating at a loss, I don’t know. But overall the market absolutely is, again because balance sheets

> How do we know inference is heavily subsidized?

Balance sheets

> Are all these third party Chinese model providers subsidizing the true cost?

It could be argued the subidies are even heavier than American model providers as the price war among Chinese providers is so fierce. https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3358868/after-tri...

They literally control the feedback loop...

I could still tab behind the dialog

It’s way too early to tell the true cost of intelligence. Inference is still heavily subsidized, and training is apparently being funded by a mountain of free money

> This isn't really anyone's fault in a simple sense

Or, in a more simple sense it’s entirely Google’s fault

It's weird that the pure html dialog still doesn't handle inertness yet

Models can easily do multiple passes