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Timestamped link to the podcast with Sam and Satya where this was asked: https://youtu.be/Gnl833wXRz0?t=700

What do the spends for AI/LLM services look like per person? Do you track any dev/AI metrics related to how the usage is in the company?

There's an xkcd in the making here, if it doesn't exist already.

yeap, down here in India.

https://status.signal.org/ they ought to fix this :/

I don't think this failed because of the bump, which exists on almost every phone. I really, _really_ wanted to go for the Air but even I couldn't bring myself to do it. My theory is that it largely falls down to the following missing things for most people including myself:

1. An ultrawide camera 2. Dual speakers 3. Better battery

Even though battery-wise, it's impressive for the size, every other review puts it at plumb last which is concerning for any prospect buyer. It's a shame Apple didn't use the Air to experiment with some denser battery tech.

I do hope Apple doesn't give up on the Air after this but it needs work before serious buyers consider it over the Pro models.

In the default “compact” layout, I can open a new tab in two taps by tapping the 3 dots, tap “New tab” from the menu.

One tap by holding the 3 dots and dragging finger to the “new tab” item.

But I didn’t like “compact” so switched to “bottom” layout for Tabs from Settings > Apps > Safari.

I'm not a fan of bugs but it's only when I consume these travelogues I'm reminded that I should be grateful things are nowhere as apocalyptic over where I live in south India.

I wonder if this is a global change or just US only?

Agreed. This is next-level gaslighting. Just say you care about the bottom-line and money.

> Most people writing JavaScript code for employment cannot really program.

> As a proof ask any JavaScript team at your employment to build their next project without a large framework and just observe how they respond both verbally and non-verbally.

With an assumption like that, I bet the answer is mostly the same if you ask any Java/Python dev for example — build your next microservice/API without Spring or DRF/Flask.

Even though I only clock at about 5YOE, I'm really tired of hearing these terrible takes since I've met plentiful share of non-JS backend folks for example, who have no idea about basic API design, design patterns or even how to properly use the same framework they use for every single project.

> I think I'm balancing the vendors pretty well, personally.

You are. Pretty much my main source these days to get a filtered down, generalist/pragmatic view on use of LLMs in software dev. I'm stumped as to what the person above you is talking about.

OT: maybe I missed this but is the Substack new and any reason (besides visibility) you're launching newsletters there vs. on your wonderful site? :)

Quite honestly, super cool! Telling that you probably managed to wield AI tools quite well if you managed to get this far with it.

Only pet peeve I have is with the obvious AI generated art (including the wallpaper?) — still can't get onboard with them.

This was a confusing read but author's TLDR seems to be that Atlassian acquired a questionably great product team out of this which is what makes the $610M worth it, who _might_ be able to build the "next big AI idea" when it comes up and Dia is not in the interest of Atlassian? Don't suppose I agree with that.

Hah, that's fine. Just checking in case I missed something :P

I haven't been using service workers lately but I had some run-ins recently when writing some CF workers.

Did something change for this API recently or just randomly popped up on frontpage? (:

I'd like to be proven wrong but I'm feeling the same point Carmack was making about not building "VR" operating systems[1][2] applies to "AI" browsers as well. It seems like a futile effort especially considering revenue generation and it seems pointless to not pick Chromium for that even if you're hellbent on going down that road.

[1]: https://xcancel.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1961172409920491849 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066395

> the team feels like they are caretakes as opposed to innovators, how does that impact them?

During my time at least (late COVID and layoffs), this was not perceived amongst the people I interacted with as a great position to be in unless you were raking in sizeable revenue for the company. Even then, I think folks always had eyes on the back of their heads.

> How can it really always be Day One?

I think for many there, it'd feel that way when you're a part of a re-org every year or the other and have to fulfill new projects and deadlines.

This is good feedback that ideally, Amazonians should read and reflect on but I worry the machine is too big at the moment for anyone there to care. Would take a big event and a reset for things to change.

My time at Amazon made me realize that while LPs probably were written with the best intent during their inception, in practice in the more recent years, it ended up often misinterpreted and weaponized internally for personal gains or to speed things up to meet unrealistic deadlines and false promises. "Disagree and commit", "Bias for Action" were popular amongst some of the management I knew.

There are very detailed internal wiki pages written with examples on the right ways to interpret them but I doubt many bothered to go through all that beyond the material presented during onboarding — which is also not always completed. It was frustrating to see LPs overused by employees in every meeting, document and discussions without much thought as to what they were meant to convey.

That said, there were a _handful_ of teams and individuals I met who exemplified these but it was a rare occurrence during my time unfortunately. And even in the moments where someone went above and beyond w.r.t channeling the LPs and the internal process to bring forth a proposal (e.g. famous corp-wide one was the push against RTO), I saw them get shot down unceremoniously while low-effort work and planning with a dusting of LPs got the go-ahead.

I hence echo what a few folk here have already said — don't always expect the work environment to reflect the values and principles you read on the about page. Reality is often (sadly) disappointing.

I’m sold just hearing “native scrollback”.

Thanks for responding! :)

Can you tell us why you made the switch?

Inspiring stuff! I didn't even expect basic Linux support on M1 to be so good in such a short time-span, leaving graphics aside. I was very pleased when I tried booting up Asahi on M1 a couple months back and went on to get work done in it and even enjoy some games.

Thanks for all your amazing contributions Alyssa and all the best for the road ahead!

ex-Microsoft engineer: https://anduin.aiursoft.cn/page/about#:~:text=I%20chose%20to...

Found this deconstruction pretty fascinating. The battery bit was news to me — not sure where "dropping AirPods enough times" stacks up in the list of things that make the battery life noticeably worse.

I guess there's a lot more that's not explored here.

Screw Medium's paywall: https://freedium.cfd/https://ehssanelmedkouri.medium.com/cha...

I too think that has some weight to it, but there's no reason we can't have both.

Before the LLM boom, I wouldn't have thought twice about having fine-grained options, but since then, every SaaS company on the face of the planet has forcibly bundled ChatGPT and its ilk and jacked up prices — LLM crap I don't use and don't plan to use in its current state.

Similarly, many might wanna go initially with a simple option but later, based on their usage, whittle it down to the few that are relevant, save money in the process, and commit to the company.

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44770250

Real thing is possible on https://copy.sh/v86/ I think but need an XP disk image[1], not readily available at the moment (probably for copyright reasons?).

[1]: https://github.com/copy/v86/issues/86

How about an entire OS with IE? https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows2000

On macOS 26 DB running on M4 MacBook Air, I don't see power nap in that place. I see "Wake for network access" which might be the new thing and it's set to "Only on Power Adapter" by default.

Edit 2: My bad, I assumed power nap == "wake for network access". This no longer seems to be an option in macOS 26.

Mine's set to "Only on Power Adapter", which makes sense.

Edit: On an M4 MacBook Air running macOS 26 DB