Matthew Weeks

I talk about dev productivity & lifestyle engineering | 10 years in web | 16 yrs programming.
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I think this, above all else, is true and should be used to introduce reasonable legislation. This should also apply to algorithmically curated feeds, but this example of clearly incorrect AI summaries of actual news content and search results is much clearer.

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German media regulator says Google's AI Overviews subject to German media law

https://t.co/scZCTyZkSc

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"The Commission for Licensing and Supervision, ZAK, which represents Germany's 14 state media authorities, said AI-generated news summaries and chatbot responses constitute content created by the providers themselves rather than merely displaying third-party material."

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I was foolish to think that this was the bottom of the UX slop barrel...

Today I learned that my Google Pixel randomly interrupts calls with an auto-response when I decline a call instead of going to my voicemail. It's a weird middle finger to anyone calling when I can't answer.

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I will never understand how some UX decisions get made.

I'm on a call, waiting on hold. Android offers "call assist". All I expect it to do is listen to the call and let me know when someone picks up so I don't have to listen the automated hold recording every minute.

Instead, it answers the call itself with a robot voice and gets it hung up on every single time. How was the leap made from "assist" to "replace yourself on a call with what sounds like a robodialer"?

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This is already more bugs than I remember dealing with on Android since the S4 era. Somehow the Google version of Android feels worse than Samsung's. Not the upgrade I was hoping for.

You can really tell that Google was serious about going all in on AI.

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After my phone broke, I was forced to upgrade from Samsung S24 to Pixel 10 Plus. I love the camera and the 128 GB storage. The rest? Not so much.

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After it reset and I logged back in, I got a marketing page for AI features I already had — then a prompt to restart for an update. Chose "now." Nothing happened. Because the update had already completed. 🙃

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Recently learned about Judith Herman's work and found it to be really predictive of recovery from alcohol addiction and complex trauma. Funny thing that inspired me to read this was getting a puppy. Nothing speedruns grief like raising a living animal.

https://t.co/VZdelV88JU

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Apple's submission process always required back-and-forth for apps, particularly with auth and tracking. For developers who actually built their application, these issues are easy to explain. For vibe-coded apps that the creator doesn't fully understand, this is a great way to make them be able to explain what is in their app before Apple gives it a trusted stamp of approval.

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@steipete Someone needs to help all the people shipping REALLY important blogs at untild speeds.

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So I'm wondering: is there a way to use AI to quickly sort a messy Notion database into logical groups?

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My Notion is a disaster.
I want to go back to it, but I can't bring myself to clean it up manually. And I don't want to just nuke it.

There's stuff in there I actually care about. Budgets, podcast and blog post ideas, recipes, project notes...

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany That's good to hear, I'll give it a shot.

I'm in mac, so I was a little worried about using a browser that's in beta, but it sounds promising.

When you say occasionally buggy, how so?

I'd heard some whispers about its performance being in the slower side, but I'm not sure.

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Tbh I think Firefox dev tools have improved SIGNIFICANTLY since 2010. I think they might even have features missing in chrome, like the css grid explorer tools they added in 2018.

It might just be familiarity for me, but I'd probably get used to it.

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@wisematheu @EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Did you migrate from Arc/Chrome to Zen?

I think the greatest difficulty in migrating to Zen (aside from it being in early beta) is the shift to a Firefox-based browser.

Ironically, I loved Firefox until switching to Chrome in the 2010s for its devtools and extensions ecosystem.

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@EnriTarta @yo @browsercompany Yup, still using Arc. It's a better version of Chrome. Kind of glad they stopped working on it, tbh, because most of what they were planning to add wouldn't improve the experience. Prioritizing AI-generated page summaries over improving profile and space management, for example.