Posts tagged with Computing
Mutual AI Escalation
One way to think about AI, at least in the short term, is that it's a mechanism for automation and adding efficiency, particularly in areas that have so far resisted automation due to domain complexity. Our current Generative…
The Folly of Custom Syncing
I just spent about 4 hours trying to debug Day One's syncing system. Day One is the journaling app, built primarily for iOS but eventually made its way to the Mac, Android, and web. I've been…
The Arc Browser
The browser wars, as we knew them back in the 90s through the 2010s, are largely over: IE won over Netscape, Firefox sprung up to provide a much-needed alternative, then Google came and ate everyone's lunch on the…
AI Engineering Validation
Product development around AI is accelerating. Just in March alone: OpenAI launched GPT-4; MidJourney upgraded its art generator to V5; Microsoft announced AI integrations into its Office 365 suite; Google formally launched its Bard AI into beta; Adobe launched its…
The Mac's Super App
Having been a Mac user now for 14+ years, I've really appreciated the evolution of the operating system over the last 1½ decades, at a time when the desktop has been superseded by mobile devices as the primary…
The Smart Home Sweet Spot
A couple years back, I was checking out the initial hardware products from a nascent startup called Wyze. Compared to other smart home manufacturers, Wyze’s unique business model is to sell reasonably sturdy hardware at close-to-manufacturing costs, and invest…
