LLMs 5
- AI is unlikely to be much help with managing personal life processes beyond removing toil.
- Models do not possess a hidden planner and instead react to the conversation and tool list.
Rui Carmo
Portuguese engineer and blogger; writes Tao of Mac, a personal site with entries going back to 2003, on Apple hardware, Linux, home labs, programming and AI coding agents. His Bluesky profile lists him as a principal at Microsoft.
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AI agents 4
- The idea of a Her-like assistant may neither fit how most people think about AI nor current sales and advertising business models.
- The current state of AI agents is at a plateau of decreasing returns where model intelligence increases but useful outcomes have not gelled.
Apple 3
- Apple's app-signing rules and hardware restrictions are increasingly difficult to defend given the power of their hardware.
- Apple's current approach to AI features fails to account for how regular people will perceive them.
developer tools 2
- Docker will eventually play a role in micro-services, but it is still acquiring the necessary fine-grained control and self-healing.
- Micro-services require scalable, resilient scaffolding that conventional SOA frameworks or ESBs do not usually provide.