"I think it's exactly the opposite, actually. They've integrated AI flawlessly into existing products to an extent nobody else has even come close to. Photos, for instance"
Have you used a Samsung? Apple's AI miserably fails in every comparison out there in the photos app.
There's also Google Photos with Gemini which helps you find any photo you want with AI better than anyone else.
I have been using Apple devices and supporting many of their users for over 20 years, and they are all extremely invested in their choice of computing device. It's really a source of pride for many of them, weirdly.
For this reason, anything Apple does is necessarily better than everything else on the market.
It's a bit pointless to argue because they come from an emotional standpoint; if you point at the many things not working properly, they always have an excuse to handwave it away.
It's really funny because I use Apple stuff, and I find many qualities in it, but I'm unwilling to be blind to the faults and weaknesses.
This sort of ego investment exists for other brands as well; I think it is a lack of emotional maturity and an inability to realize that a brand does not care if you do not fully "love" their products.
100% agreed. You speak the truth, but already the apologists are writing textbooks justifying Apple's failed strategy :)) and this is why the company thrives. Just blind loyalty to a company that couldn't care less about them.
As someone who moved from Heroku -> App Engine -> Cloud Run, I think you'll appreciate the modern alternatives more. If you remove the cost factor, the development experience within GCP is far superior. Not to mention the security features are great as well.
I think Cloud Run has many nice features that Heroku's apps don't. However, Heroku's services ecosystem and the easy bindings don't have a direct Cloud Run equivalent, imo, and are inferior in the GCP world.
I hate it when people mispronounce/misspell Yazhi. It's pronounced using the the most unique feature of the language - "zh" instead of "L" just like Tamil itself (it's actually Thamizh). The original wikipedia page:
I'm coming around to the idea that we _should_ really be using "l" or maybe "r" instead of "zh" for the ழ. At least it's closer in pronunciation and there's a chance someone can work their way to it. Zh is like "we don't have an exact match so we'll repurpose a letter we don't use". It has no phonetic relevance.
Tamil is my mother tongue and I agree 100%. And like insisting that sentences shouldn't end with a preposition, or "you should say GNU/Linux, not Linux", it's no way to make friends and influence people.
Nobody is going to even do anything about SimilarWeb for pulling this off?
My understanding from the article is that they're actively behind this.
When I was the CTO in a previous role, SimilarWeb approached us. I read through the code snippet they gave us to inject onto our site. It was a sophisticated piece of borderline spyware that didn't care about anyone in the entire line of sight - including us. They not only were very persistent, they also had a fight with our management - for refusing to use their snippet. They wanted our data so bad (we had very high traffic at the time). All we wanted was decent analytics for reporting to senior management and Google had just fucked up with their GA4 migration practices. I switched them to Plausible.io and never looked back. It was the least I could do, we had to trade-off so many data points in comparison to GA, but still works flawlessly till date. Fuck SimilarWeb.
My understanding is that it's just an abstraction layer that feeds right into the context window. Might as well just feed it into the prompt. I think cursor even proved that skills aren't as good as direct prompts (or something to that extent, can't remember exactly)
I completely disagree. Gemini is by far the most straightforward AI. The other two are too soft. ChatGPT particularly is extremely politically correct all the time. It won't call a spade, one. Gemini has even insulted me - just to get my ass moving on a task when givn the freedom. Which is exactly what you need at times. Not constant ass kissing "ooh your majesty" like ChatGPT does. Claude has a very good balance when it comes to this, but I still prefer the unfiltered Gemini version when it comes to this. Maybe it comes down to the model differences within Gemini. Gemini 3 Flash preview is quite unfiltered.
Using Gemini 3 Pro Preview, it told me in mostly polite terms, that I'm a fucking idiot. Like I would expect a close friend to do when I'm going about something wrong.
ChatGPT with the same prompt tried to do whatever it would take to please me to make my incorrect process work.
So do humans. Time and again, KPIs have pressured humans (mostly with MBAs) to violate ethical constrains. Eg. the Waymo vs Uber case. Why is it a highlight only when the AI does it? The AI is trained on human input, after all.
Maybe because it would be weird if your excel or calculator decided to do something unexpected, and also we try to make a tool that doesn't destroy the world once it gets smarter than us.
False equivalence. You are confusing algorithms and intellegince. If you want human level intelligence without the human aspect, then use algorithms - like used in Excel and Calculators. Repeatable, reliable, 0 opinions. If you want some sort of intelligence, especially near human-like then you have to accept the trade offs - that it can have opinions and morality different from your own - just like humans. Besides, the AI is just behaving how a human would because it's directly trained on human input. That's what's actually funny about this fake outrage.
I'm surprised no one talks about their overrated "engineering" section showing the chassis as if it's some piece of work from heaven, but in reality their welding quality is absolutely pathetic and even a 12 year old could do a better job than this:
So, we just discard someone's workmanship history and dump $x,00,000 just because of the brand value? 3 years ago but still relevant for a company who charges $500k for such poor workmanship. This is acceptable from a normal manufacturer like Hyundai (which ironically has much, much better welding standards), not from a luxury car company.
Working on Design Flo - Generate enterprise grade software using natural language. We use 10 years of battle-tested patterns, not just LLMs. Deterministic logic where reliability, performance, and correctness matter most.
BEAM has always been used in high-performance computing applications (Eg. WhatsApp) and Elixir pretty much is the modern Erlang alternative for BEAM, hope this helps.
Have you used a Samsung? Apple's AI miserably fails in every comparison out there in the photos app.
There's also Google Photos with Gemini which helps you find any photo you want with AI better than anyone else.
But sure, Apple has the best AI integration
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