But what about the broader consumer market? When laypeople can’t meaningfully evaluate model quality, they default to what feels best, creating dangerous incentives for labs to optimize for subjective satisfaction rather than genuine capability. This mirrors how we evaluate other … | Continue reading
Looks like I am not the only person who’s in denial that the time for the mickey mouse gloves are truly over. =( Meanwhile, I do think that the new default pointer for Tahoe is better than the previous default. | Continue reading
We’re in uncharted territory. These tools are less than three years old, and nobody knows what happens when someone uses the same AI assistant for a decade. How much should it remember? How should it handle years of accumulated context? Meanwhile, we’re seeing a Cambrian explosio … | Continue reading
https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-26-tahoe-the-macstories-review John meanwhile has the pen for the Mac OS 26 reviews. This is something I am going to pore over when I get a chance. My Mac is my favorite and most important technology piece and I cannot wait to dig into thi … | Continue reading
Federico is back with his annual iOS and iPad OS 26 reviews. Grab your favorite beverage (likely beverages for this one) and go through 20 pages of detailed observations and connections. https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-26-the-macstories-review | Continue reading
Anyway, it’s got me doing that thing again where I feel the need to have everything on both macOS and Linux. This always turns into a shitshow, but I can’t help myself. jack tries linux this really resonated. I’ve had a linux distribution on a stick that i’ve maintained a slax di … | Continue reading
All of this makes me think that Apple is close to introducing devices where the screen disappears seamlessly into the physical edge. Something where flexible OLED blurs the distinction between pixels and bezel. A new “wraparound” screen with safe area insets on the vertical edges … | Continue reading
Source: [Colossal] These are mesmerizing. I would love a game that features this style of art. Incredible. | Continue reading
I have a soft spot for delightful little web tools. HDR Gradients is a perfect example of the type of tool that are awesome. Adam Argyle hit this one out of the park | Continue reading
I’ve heard this line of argument before. I think Jim’s more self aware than most that there’s a false equivalence here. Let me do my best to enunciate it for my own sake: Adding more context is the mental equivalent of learning more about a problem space. When one learns more abo … | Continue reading
This was a great read especially related to product management. First off, I am shocked that we now have a product management course (this also makes me feel old). There is a reason why I chose to post it. I’ve always wondered how educators will navigate the balance of LLMs when … | Continue reading
Motion is critical for how a product feels. It guides attention, reinforces brand personality, and can make an interface feel more responsive. Motion has been a core part of my design process, going way back to the days when Principle was king. Here’s my general framework that I’ … | Continue reading
Today, AI is the voice in the drive-thru that can’t hear our orders. It’s killing the livelihood of creative workers. It’s the thing you have to do at work, whether you like it or not. It’s making search engines unusable. It’s a justification for corporate layoffs. It’s plagiaris … | Continue reading
I empathize with the desire behind all of this. At times I feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the forces of both nature and culture. Huge systems which we can not fully comprehend and for which any one human is insignificant. Even someone as brilliant as Dario Amodei cannot sin … | Continue reading
3. The O-Ring models makes AI hard to work with. The O-Ring model stipulates that, in some settings, it is the worst performer who sets the overall level of productivity. (In the NBA, for instance, it may be the quality of the worst defender on the floor, since the player your … | Continue reading
And now consider a modern Bangalore tech campus. The cafeteria sprawls across 20,000 square feet, seven live counters, three different bread stations. The Jain counter serves pav bhaji without onions — an impossibility made possible. The Bengali station has begun serving “Vegan M … | Continue reading
I love rss. Until Aug 17, 2025, I used netnewswire with icloud syncing to read all the rss feeds that I’ve been collecting and curating since 2002. On Aug 17, 2025, I decided to try self hosting my rss feed parser using miniflux. It’s a neat little open source, fully free service … | Continue reading
I propose a new term: ZombAI. ZombAI: brainless use of AI in activities For example: the attached image 😛 | Continue reading
iOS 26’s new ringtone is catchy and is a reminder that Apple can still delightful things. Sad that liquid glass ain’t one of them | Continue reading
Eeks.. More on liquid glass: | Continue reading
This should be great news for consumers — particularly if these kinds of regulations are offered beyond the current three regions (EU, UK, and now Japan). Apple has traditionally been a laggard when it comes to adding open web features that might be competitive with native apps. … | Continue reading
It also would help it raise a bigger funding round itself, boosting its own valuation: > “Perplexity’s offer is significantly more than its own valuation, which is estimated at $18 billion. The company told The Wall Street Journal that several investors including large venture-ca … | Continue reading
Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. Under the heading The Month of AI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different tools, all of which are vulnerable to various classic prompt injection problems. … | Continue reading
In other words, as Noah likes to say, “Dystopia is when robots take half your jobs. Utopia is when robots take half your job.” Generative AI: autocomplete for everything | Continue reading
Moravec’s paradox is the observation in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics that, contrary to traditional assumptions, reasoning requires very little computation, but sensorimotor and perception skills require enormous computational resources. “it is comparatively … | Continue reading
We believe that means that we should update how we talk about (and measure) success when using these tools, and we should expect that after the initial efficiency gains our focus will be on raising the ceiling of the work and outcomes we can accomplish, which is a very different … | Continue reading
It really shows the power of the terminal and the commandline It’s gotten me wondering if I can combine %! along with llm to see if I can make llm calls from vim. Of course you can. This is going to make my setup quite portable. | Continue reading
When you layer the translucent effect with a color, you still get a glassy look but the text and iconography atop them are more legible. I recently switched to using an orange liquid glass tint on my lock screen and home screen. It looks particularly great when paired with the wa … | Continue reading
Today, MacBooks and MacBook Pros feature a design decision. Pay attention. The top corners of the MacBook feature a rounded corner. However, the bottom corners don’t. Dig deeper and you will realize that the corner radius is concentric with the outer radius of the MacBook lid. Ho … | Continue reading
Google’s playing for keeps with the Pixel 10. On paper, this phone is poised to be a hit. Familiar silhouette, Google-y utility, and a camera stack that wants the crown. Pair that with Android 16’s Material 3 Expressive glow-up rolling out with QPR1 in September, and yeah – I pre … | Continue reading
There are many things that delight me on the internet. However, there are few things that delight me in a way that I drop everything and spend hours on it. I just discovered one of the best sites I’ve seen in a while. https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference If you like history o … | Continue reading
So what should you do when an AI model makes a big mistake? I recommend correcting it as matter-of-factly as possible and trying to briskly move on. If you haven’t yet built up a lot of context in the conversation, it might be worth starting over entirely. The best approach – onl … | Continue reading
LLMs collapse the product loop Two weeks, two side projects, two very different partners: one deep in code, the other steeped in business ops. Building with both made something obvious: large language models aren’t just engineering accelerants. They collapse the entire product lo … | Continue reading
I watched a video recently, that had text fading away. I thought it’d be cool to recreate that type of effect in CSS! Making a faded text effect in (mostly) CSS I wanted to take a quick stab at my own LLM chat interface, see how far I could get and how many little details […] | Continue reading
The Microsoft memo portends the new reality of the technology industry. For years, the sector has been generous to its employees, offering unheard-of perks and placing a premium on skills such as software development. AI, however,inverts that relationship. As a result, we now fac … | Continue reading
The one thing can be small or big, easy or labored, fleeting or long. I carve out time to go play drums for two hours, go for a bouldering session, do a shorter 20 minute run, read a page of a book, eat something I’m really excited about, and more. Even on the most difficult […] | Continue reading
This little sideshow is an easy demonstration of how LLMs can rewrite our interiority. Whether it is social engineering like above, or AI therapy, or just venting to ChatGPT about your day, LLMs have the ability to build a psychological profile of you and make you feel as it desi … | Continue reading
To find those plants, Home Depot runs 25 trial gardens in nine climate zones across the U.S. and studies them in the field under a variety of conditions. After all, a plant that thrives in New Mexico might not survive in New Jersey. For security purposes, some of those experiment … | Continue reading
Read the whole thread. My notes: | Continue reading
Scrutinizing the poor beast, the scientists had a “eureka moment” when they discovered that anglerfish genes coded for several peptides related to the gut hormone glucagon. Scientists later identified that hormone as “glucagon-like peptide 1”—GLP-1. Further research showed that G … | Continue reading
In my lifetime, the movement’s theorists have worked far more slowly on how to integrate the effect of those changes into its vision. That means when some new transformative tool comes along outside that vision, the left’s cultural norms err on the side of critique. Which is fine … | Continue reading
My proposition is to imagine new futures (plural) for the web. The plural is essential. The more perspectives and stories and ideas, the more ideas that are out there that may inspire discussions between — preceding the creation of new communities and visions and technologies by … | Continue reading
China is back at the forefront of open-weight models The world’s best open weight model is Made in China (again):…Chinese startup Moonshot has built and released via open weights Kimi K2, a large-scale mixture-of-experts model. K2 is the most powerful open weight model available … | Continue reading
This is a long-winded way of saying that this entire transformation went through code. It’s a pipeline that starts with human input, produces code, does an LLM as a judge step and iterates. And you can take this transformation and apply it to a general task as well. Tools: Code I … | Continue reading
We use these services as if they are our agents, working on our behalf. In fact, they are double agents, also secretly working for their corporate owners. We trust them, but they are not trustworthy. They’re not friends; they’re services. AI and Trust – Schneier on Security While … | Continue reading
Assuming a 75 year old life span https://gurupanguji.github.io/life-countdown/ It’s more important than ever that I don’t waste time doing things that don’t bring me joy =P | Continue reading
The Big Thing…One of my ADHD quirks is that if there’s a Big Thing to do that day (doctor’s appointment, package delivery, big presentation) then 100% of my brain goes to that important event. I can’t miss it. Nothing else gets done until The Big Thing gets done. Conversely, afte … | Continue reading