Wouter

Digital Creative & Developer @tallyforms

not really using this site anymore, might open it once in a while

[steve @SteveMoraco]

I’m actually pretty upset Apple allowed this. While the feature is cool, the technical functionality that enables it is not cool.

If I was Tim Apple, OAI would be temporarily banned from the App Store until this is reversed, and here’s why:

I use iMessage because it’s quantum encrypted, with server keys I can own. Local caches are on devices that are encrypted with my passwords, not apples keys.

This makes it and computationally and legally impossible for anyone else to access chat history but the people I trust and directly communicated with.

But *now* the copies of my messages from years ago on *anyones* laptop in what is *supposed* to be an encrypted-at-rest local cache only can now be fetched directly by chatgpt without my permission or even knowledge and stored and processed in plain text forever on openai / Microsoft servers unencrypted and requested by any government entity at a moments notice without my knowledge and openai/Microsoft legally have to provide that, in federally enforced total secrecy. And they’re never legally allowed to admit they do it.

AND because of default chatgpt settings most people haven’t bothered to turn off, all those private texts can now be used for training and will end up in the weights of future models, so all future AI models will permanently know all of our private lives as a part of the weights, immortalized forever as training checkpoints.

Total architecture abandonment and user trust betrayal on Apples part. This should be the most viral story of 2026 by 100x. The permanent end of private communication in the US.

[benja @benjaminakar]

if you care about what you ship, you can't outsource this part

who's responsible when something gets merged, breaks production, and the excuse is "but we ship so fast"?

we're building software that real people and companies depend on. speed doesn't remove responsibility.

[benja @benjaminakar]

ai has made code incredibly cheap to produce, but not cheap to review

if you spent 5 minutes generating a PR that takes someone else 2 hours to understand and validate, you've just moved the work downstream

that's not productivity. you just made someone else do your job.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@elonmusk @stclairashley You know what can *actually* be the downfall of Western civilization?

People who dismiss facts, disparage scientists and the journalists, side with aspiring dictators, disseminate batshit-crazy conspiracy theories, and buy themselves a medium to amplify them.