my childhood nickname was builder. founder of eScribe (used in 1 in 50 cancer surgeries per day). ex-DoD engineer, ex-founder & CTO of top 5 app store app
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
@nikitabier@flyosity here’s an old school iOS dev trick:
no joke, email tim cook (tim or tcook @ https://t.co/JrNMvoqbaU) can’t remember it’s been a while. one of his secretary’s will shoot it off to the review team and usually will get approved same dayish
@james406 what people miss about true "100x engineers": when bret found a bug or got a feature request, he already know exactly which file & line to hit and foresaw the issue while writing the original code