Brent Deverman

iOS · macOS · visionOS · Server-Side Swift engineer. AI-native Apple apps + open-source #OmniFocus MCP server.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

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[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@FiachraRM It’s ashame @Apple ‘s flying car project was cancelled. 😞

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@woshiqijie Happy birthday @woshiqijie !

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@AjeyGore @FiachraRM oh I forgot in the meantime you should talk to @hunvreus he is organizing https://t.co/78otfLGTak

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@AjeyGore @FiachraRM Will reach out! Probably mid-December.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@HHaandr Your #HomeView is perfect for displaying some art work

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

I was reminded of this quote today and needed the reminder.

[Michael Pollan @michaelpollan]

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up - The New York Times https://t.co/9WP9AKSuow

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Dusting off this tweet from April because this gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is *widening*. It's now less "two groups of people speaking past each other" and more a sharp funnel.

- Napkin math somewhere around 6B people (~75% of the population) have barely come in contact with LLMs at all.
- Around 1-2B (~20%) are casual and infrequent users of free-tier ChatGPT-like products. This group sees derpy chatbots and treats them a bit like a better Google search, a writing aid, or etc. Maybe an agent tries to book you a flight. I have non-tech friends who (reasonably, imo) say they have not much use for it at all. Even many professionals outside of math&code are in this tier. For example, execs and many other functions spend a lot of their time talking to other people, so while they understand what is happening intellectually, it is still second-hand and a bit abstract.
- Now we get to professional use of frontier-grade LLMs in math&code. Somewhere around 20M people (0.2%) see first-hand that large, complex projects that used to take them weeks/months can now be completed by agents with a prompt. Building apps, copying apps, translating apps, decompiling apps from binaries... This has all happened very quickly and recently - less than 1 year ago, I was writing code manually by hand, typing memorized computer code commands into a code editor character by character, occasionally pressing Tab to autocomplete a little chunk of code.
- And finally we get to the ~5,000 people (~0.00006%) with access to frontier-grade systems internally. The external world has seen the preview. It looks like swarms of thousands of agents collaborating over weeks on software mega projects: minting zero days, running cyber attacks and defenses at machine speeds, discovering new science, advancing the frontier of mathematics. Things that would have taken top professionals in the industry years of work. Meanwhile, human review and comprehension are starting to fall behind. For example, people are still involved in the "archeology" of the OpenAI-HF incident from many months ago. Mathematicians may be poring over the 722 manuscripts on frontier mathematics for a while.

The funnel is driven by a combination of factors:
1. The impact scales with ambition, problem size, and horizon. A question with a paragraph answer barely stresses the system. You need a reservoir of big, difficult problems that you really care about. This aspect drives the consumer / professional dimension of the funnel.
2. The jaggedness of the system (which I have written about a lot separately). Capability peaks in domains that are digital, verifiable and economically valuable. This is because LLM capability emerges from reinforcement learning on verifiable rewards on a curated environment mixture driven by revenue potential. This aspect primarily drives the area (e.g. math&code) dimension of the funnel.
3. Access. Free-tier, paid-tier, internal.

So this is the weirdness of the moment. The general public has mostly not interacted with these systems. When they have, it looks like a derpy chatbot. The majority of professionals still see only a modest uplift. And a small sliver of professionals are experiencing the vertigo of the curve going vertical. And it is all happening at the same time.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

My Mom: "Then it said copy to clipboard. I don't even know what that is."

Take a moment out of your day today to teach your mom the @Apple clipboard. Extra credit if you can get her to understand #clipboard history in #macOS 27.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

Innovative content still trickling onto the @Apple Vision Pro!

[Apple TV @AppleTV]

#Remnants — The first immersive horror film on Apple Vision Pro.

Written & directed by Ti West.

Watch on Oct 16 only on Apple Vision Pro.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@dhh @daringfireball Welcome back @Apple Developers to @X ! #masOS #iOS #visionOS #iPadOS #watchOS #homeOS

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@hunvreus Yeah strange I never got the confirmation email.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

If I was in #Singapore, I would be at this meetup at the end of this month.

[Ronan Berder (SF + SG) @hunvreus]

First https://t.co/Eo4oz61Ps4 meetup is happening this month, Friday, October 30.

I’ll send more details by tomorrow, including venue and speaker. Only 50 slots available, next one I’ll try and open it up to more.

I’m considering asking S$50 from confirmed attendees and give the money back at the door. I don’t plan on making money from it but I want to avoid flakes.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Amazon banning agents is the first opportunity I've seen since Amazon was founded for a startup to create an Amazon competitor. People will want agents to buy stuff for them. It will be one of the main use cases. And they won't want to use some Amazon-supplied agent to do it.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@FiachraRM Rugpulls coming to #AI

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

We are looking for owners of retail boutiques, and people with experience in visual merchandising. This is for our final project from @Apple Developer Academy in #Bali related to visual merchandising.

If you meet this criteria please comment below and I'll follow up.

#merchandising #retail #ios #iphone #shopping

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

@bzshal @bot Yes I have already given my RSVP.

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

Didn’t get in but was still setting up my Grok @bot this weekend.

[Sachin @sachin_anatta]

Grokbot Workshop Bali ✅🌴

230+ registered
130 accepted
104 showed up, laptops open 💻

Students, founders and creators, many of them non-tech, building their first bots at Universitas Udayana today 🤖

Thanks @SpaceX, @BaliSquad199997
Couldn't get a seat? Next one's coming 👀

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

I ran into the need for my agents to directly edit markdown files for a client in @Google drive and I am glad this is fixed.

[Chandu Thota @ChanduThota]

We are making Markdown files work natively across Google Drive and Docs.

You can now preview .md files in Drive, open them in Docs, edit them, comment on them, and collaborate without converting the file into a Google Doc!

[Brent Deverman @bdeverman]

Every time I type "type" @typesafeai comes up before @typeform in Safari.