A lot of the controls are unreadable depending on the background behind it, for example. Which is crazy. Sometimes it's also hard to figure out if something is a control, part of a site/application, a visual bug, or something else.
They've even doubled down on it, I don't see this going away in the next 2 major OS versions. I expect them to have a lot of WWDC sessions about it again this year.
That said, Apple's own apps are a crazy mixed up mess of different design systems and technologies, so maybe it will all fall apart and something new comes along in ±3 years time.
It probably distracts from the AI race. With the newly bought political power it makes far more sense for Meta to align with whatever this administration seeks. And it’s not gaming or VR.
> So, a fraction of the AI investments? It’s pretty clear where the focus is bow and who/what no longer has a future at Meta.
And the tens of billions spent on AI at Meta... As a result, we're all using "Meta Code CLI" and "ChatBook" and "Geminizuck" right?
Seriously: while we're all on Claude Code using the Anthropic models and many are happy with Gemini and ChatGPT for other stuff, where is Meta's AI offering? I love their Segment Anything Models (SAM) but what the heck has Meta to answer to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI?
Do they need one do you think? They are trying to make one for sure but it's interesting to think about whether they actually need their own models to survive the shift. Maybe they just deliver other people's models via Meta products?
Meta stock is priced as a growth stock - not on its current financial returns but on what the market believes it will do in the future. It has been priced like this from the start because it has been growing since the start.
As soon as it stops being able to convince the market it is still growing, then the stock price drops to what the business's current financials dictate, which will be a huge drop. That huge drop has severe negative consequences for everyone involved in that decision. Spending tens of billions on the Metaverse project was better, even though it failed, because it created a growth story they could sell to the market.
So now that's gone they need another growth story. Given the current state of the tech world, that's probably AI-related. And they probably need their own models as part of it.
They can't just "survive the shift" because it's not really about survival. They need to be part of the shift, so that they can convince the market that they're still growing.
Sure they are spending like crazy. I do think now they have bought Manus, they will try to compete. We'll have to see what all the talent they bought is going to create.
I’m not a professional developer but I can find my way around several languages and deployment systems. I have used Claude to migrate a mediumsized Laravel 5 app to Laravel 11 in about 2-3 days. I would not have dared to touch it otherwise.
In my day job I’m currently a PM/operations director at a small company. We don’t have programmers. I have used AI to build about 12 internal tools in the past year. They’re not very big, but provide huge productivity gains. And although I do not fully understand the codebase, I know what is where. Three of these tools I’m now recreating based on our usage and learnings.
I have learned a ton about all kinds of development concepts in a ridiculously short timeframe.
I'm interested in seeing how these changes affect the supply chain of components. I would figure it would be cheaper to just use the existing components with all features, instead of making a different one with 1 or 2 parts less. Maybe this is just how good manufacturers are now?
Simply scrolling through (or at least trying to) a large conversation in any of the Electron LLM apps would show many opportunities for performance that native can bring.
I have this issue as well on multiple Tahoe Macs. Opening a new Safari window is 500ms to 1000ms. Adding a tab is faster most of the times. But Safari frequently loses tabs turning them into a blank page without a URL. Searching in the passwords app talkes multiple seconds. This is on multiple macs with different icloud accounts even.
I don't have that problem (new Safari window in < 100ms) but I believe you, LOL.
Because I have the problem on 7+ Macs (as in all mine, my kids', my sister's and my dad's (all of which I am primary tech support on)) where if I press ⌘+ to increase the font size on a website, it increases — and then immediately reverts back to the previous size.
Every single time. But only the first time. I just did it on this site to be sure it still happens.
Do it again, and it works.
It's been happening for at least one or two years, across more than one major OS upgrade. ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯
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