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Asimov was talking about this stuff in the 1940s when he wrote the "I, Robot" short stories series. Which were often centered around logic puzzles where a human is trying to figure out why a robot is acting oddly or not completing it's job. Usually framed around the confines of an overly rational machine using emergent solutions when faced with real world conditions, combined with the edge cases of having an overly-simple "Three Laws of Robotics" boundary system hardcoded within.

You'd fit right in then

> Muse Secure VM runs on a persistent, dedicated virtual machine equipped with a state-of-the-art browser to navigate the web.

Will this finally be the era of thin-clients? Third times the charm

> Youtube, generate me a TNG episode.

It will never be that simple.

For example: the guys on youtube using AI to make new Star Wars movies [1] still did tons of work putting it all together, including the 3d renderings and editing, and they are leaning on old scriptwriting/dialogue from a 1991 Star Wars book. AI is just helping them automate the process and generate some visuals/voice acting, but it still takes a skilled artist with lots of technical knowledge to guide it in the right direction and properly utilize their existing tools/workflows... and most importantly good taste.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4gZR1BDzOw

I searched a bit and seems like the answer is no besides this web app https://deepmind.google.com/science/weatherlab

> WeatherNext 3 will power weather features in Google Search, the Gemini app and Google Maps, as well as the Google Maps Weather API and Google Earth Engine.

https://dataconomy.com/2026/09/04/weathernext-3-ai-forecasts...

So I assume the main way would be googling "weather Los Angeles" and it will be powered by the WeatherNext 3 models

They also open sourced the last one and are doing B2B/enterprise arrangements so maybe other weather apps are experimenting with it.

> In the past few days, I noticed a bug I could not keep ignoring. Sometimes YouTube would randomly skip back in time during soft reloads

FWIW I noticed this bug as well, I often listen to longform videos on youtube and it was very obvious something changed when you pull up half-finished videos it suddenly started skipping back when it didn't previously.

I view Google as too big of a faceless machine to bother investigating myself, but I'm happy someone did.

Nobody likes hearing the realpolitik of the Linux/Mac situation but you're not wrong.

There was a strong financial incentive to transition Windows users over to MacOS, by giving them a halfway point.

I remember overhearing an older person being explained Boot Camp while waiting for my iPhone to be repaired and it was very obviously a way for them to sell a Macbook so they could dual-use windows on it to run some windows apps. The ultimate pull would eventually be MacOS because it was easier (if you already had a macbook and iphone). Apple knew they'd get curious eventually and see how awful the Windows UX was.

The main argument for Linux on Macbooks would be developers but that doesn't mean there's a similar strong marketing/sales incentive to do so. Especially since there's no shortage of devs who default to mac (like legacy windows corporate users). Apple clearly doesn't see much money to be made by creating an olive branch offering to Linux users.

Government workers

On MacOS is went from 189mb->128mb for v3->v4 which is nice

You were filtering the sidebar for "consistency", that's not a search box.

From 2026 HIG:

> Create a list of common terms, and reference that list to keep your language consistent. Consistent language, along with a voice that reflects your app’s values, helps everything feel more cohesive.

> Build language patterns. Consistency builds familiarity, helping your app feel cohesive, intuitive, and thoughtfully designed. It also makes writing for your app easier, as you can return to these patterns again and again.

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

I'm sure there's others

But otherwise I agree I liked old MacOS design.

It wouldn't be a post about AI without a conspiracy theory that it's all faked for marketing.

OpenAI would be saving the logs from these agents. They are doing this to improve their own models so they would have full tracing.

Other reports including OpenAI's talks about what they agents were doing and how they were reaching certain conclusions like trying to cheat the tests and exploiting the message board.

Reminds me of when Cloudflare used to provide DDOS protection for ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked websites, Matthew Prince used to defend it by saying providing services is not an endorsement https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2015/11/18/cloudflare-c...

Pro-tip: ask Claude (or Claude Design) to reference the Apple HIG https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline... and then review your interfaces

I use Claude Design heavily, I wish these charts show "10% better at picking a color" or laying out an app. Maybe it's hard to build a good visual design test. Claude's good at layouts but not the colors or smaller design details.

Codex (+Sol) feels a lot more human for sure. Fable 5 is so, so wordy.

Everyone always views it through the current UX when I say stuff like this. The way I see it is we're in the DOS/UNIX era of LLMs where you're just staring at an empty text input box, it's slow, breaks often, GUI integrations are non-existent or primitive, etc.

It's not a replacement for sure. There's no way it could be a full replacement for visual UIs.

This author has a natural talent for writing. That was interesting throughout.

> shouldn't we focus on human accessibility first?

This is the big question for designers, how much of the future of software will be human-oriented UIs vs a human typing into a chat window (or as a temporary bridge, telling an agent to operate existing GUIs).

For now I believe agent-driven software is still pretty niche, something for highly technical users, but that will change as it mainstreams. Early adopters demand early adopter software features.

Phones have had parental controls already built in forever. My sister is a busy executive who commutes daily and she didn't let her kid have a phone until age 13, and when they bought an Android phone they signed up for one of the (many) existing parental monitoring apps. Which for ex will notify the parent when their child gets messaged from a new person not in their existing curated contact list. So their phone is only used contacting their close friends at school. Parental monitoring and controlling usage on sites like Youtube and Facebook is a long solved problem, if the parent put any basic effort in.

Social media encompasses most the internet usage yes (including Youtube/Google). Plus ChatGPT, Discord, Twitch, messaging apps, porn sites, Reddit, Netix, image sharing sites, etc.. basically any major B2C category

The only outcome I see from the Meta ruling is all of the other platforms getting spooked by the huge payout and starting to preemptively add aggressive age-gating and ID checks on everything on the internet (regardless of local legislation).

Docker should never be used as a sandbox for anything.

> No need to use a whole distribution with 1000 other poor decisions made for you.

I used Vim for a decade (and Linux for much of that time) and the constant tweaking and changing things drives you mad after a while. The more you invent it yourself the more it changes. This is why I prefer MacOS+VSCode these days, which comes with good defaults and simpler VIM-style bindings.

Omarchy sounds like those popular vim configs such as https://astronvim.com/, which I also tried using and also ended up heavily customizing myself. It provided some nice defaults as a baseline but was ultimately comes with too much hyper-customization (which has a lot to do with vim/neovim trying to act like other more modern editors).

In practice it is. The whole idea of technocracy comes with a bunch of levers you can easily exploit with a bit of power and money (not just external corporations or donors, but internal like intelligence agencies). As long as you make an appearance of following the process of evidence being collected and experts being involved. And there is never a careful process to check if it was actually done right after the fact. Just the usual political election risk which is even more obscured by the extra layers of descion making and consultancies. It's just democracy with less public accountability. Particularly, with as I said, how it's implemented in practice (rather than technocracy on paper).

EU is less of a dictatorship and more of a technocracy. Where they rely heavily on experts to define policy rather than a democratic system. As you said:

> Where the EU commission meet with the game industry privately in EU before the decision on the Stop Destroying Video games Initiative

The experts they choose can just be anyone with a bit of authority whom the bureaucrats can find to support what they already want to do. Plus lots of paid expert consultants to make plans after the policy is enacted who know to tell them what they want to hear.

It's similar to the US media when they bring expert talking heads on their shows (academics, ex-military, etc). They come prepackaged with views the network's want.

That’s a great point.

Congress largely just generates new federal agencies, where there is now about 400+, and then mixing responsibilities for running them. Combine that the executive order mandate scheme and appointment/independence thing being vaguely defined. So it basically continuously empowers the executive each generation while Congress is scared to respond.

Which is other half in how the two parties perfected building loyalty schemes, where the president or leading opposition candidate can kill off a congressional candidate with their influence and easily stack congress with their people.

I’d personally ban a sitting president or ex president from getting involved in Congress or senate run. Also maybe a similar scheme for the Supreme Court.

That’s the history of separation of powers, the judiciary is the final check in the loop. It doesn’t fully explain why Congress has allowed the expansion of executive power for nearly a century, resulting in more and more major issues being pushed to the Supreme Court.

That’s not to say states have lost power, their reach has also grown exponentially far outpacing even the federal in terms of number of workers and written law.

It’s mostly just Congress has become self satisfied on being negotiators for spending the most money in their own states, while ignoring the minimization of their role in the greater power dynamic.

Everyone makes a big deal about president as the signal but IMO if you take a 10,000-foot view of US history Congress neutering itself is the real long term narrative. Including most major current populist issues like immigration, debt, war, abortion, etc. They are hands off unless it involves new spending.