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9to5Mac’s article “Another AirPods Pro 3 model is coming, with one rumored upgrade”:
Apple is rumored to be developing a new, higher-end version of AirPods Pro 3 featuring infrared (IR) cameras to enhance AI capabilities and potentially support visual intelligence and hand gestures. This upcoming model is expected to be similar to the current AirPods Pro 3 but will likely come at a higher price point. The IR cameras are anticipated to help users better understand and interact with their external environment.
Oh, as an AirPods Pro 2 owner, I might want to hold up my next purchase. I’m just curious about the appeal of this upgrade.
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At this point, I have to admit, the only reason I’m keeping ChatGPT is its image-generation and analysis capabilities.
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New MacBook with ‘fun colors’ sounds like the best Mac for most people — 9to5Mac
It’s pretty simple: if you can get a MacBook that’s the most affordable by far, comes in fun colors, and will do everything you want—why would you choose anything else?
I’m warming up to this. Could be a boon to my travel gears.
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How many new RSS readers can we get in a week? I’m counting two so far. Might be a third one coming soon? Cc @manton
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Using Claude Code, I added an OPML export feature to my RSS Flow webpage so that I could move my feeds into Current so that I could compare the reading experience of a RSS river… let’s see.
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I bought Current. I’m not sure it’s for me. It doesn’t support Inoreader. It might be in a future version. Information density is too low. I like some of its design decisions. It seems that some useful features will come the more I use the app. I’ll see.
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We're Making a Big Mistake
I believe that IT workers who are also passionate about gen AI are making a major misjudgment. We wrongly assume that the advances we observe in our field, such as the autonomous or semi-autonomous development of applications, also translate to sectors like medicine or law. This is a false generalization. The field of IT heavily relies on strict formalism: the raw material consumed by LLMs. In the legal field, for example, this is not the case: it is much more complex. Continue reading →
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Matt Shumer writes in “Something Big is Happening”:
The AI labs made a deliberate choice. They focused on making AI great at writing code first… because building AI requires a lot of code. If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version. Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That’s why they did it first.
Clever. Exciting. But scary, too.
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I Am the Great Glassholio! — Spyglass
Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, which would let wearers identify people and get information about them via an AI assistant.
Meta being meta. Creepy.
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If Apple does a “Snow Leopard”- style release with iOS 27 (and hopefully macOS 27), then I’m all in. Software quality has taken a nosedive in recent years, and it’s no longer aligned with Apple’s “It just works”. Apple needs to do something about this. I cannot count how many times people have come to me and said, “Apple’s hardware is top-notch, but the software is such crap.”
I bet Apple will use some level of AI to inspect code and apply AI-based suggestions and recommendations.
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The Rise of Cognitive Dept
Margaret-Anne Storey introduces “cognitive debt” as a concept that may be more threatening than technical debt in AI-augmented development. Unlike technical debt (which lives in code), cognitive debt is the erosion of shared understanding that resides in developers’ minds. Drawing on Peter Naur’s concept of a program as a “theory” distributed across teams, the article argues that as AI and agentic tools push for development velocity, teams risk losing their collective understanding of why systems work the way they do. Continue reading →
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When I was a teenager, programming languages like LOGO made computers and programming very accessible. In today’s world, I would argue that, to some degree, vibe coding does the same: it makes computer programming more accessible in a much more complex digital landscape.
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Do we know if Apple upgraded the local Apple Intelligence model since its initial release? In case they didn’t, it’s no wonder why Apple is so far behind as others are releasing new models at a rapid pace, even those destined at being run locally.
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I’m still tweaking my RSS Flow web app using Claude Code. It’s addictive and fun. It’s becoming the exact RSS reader I always wanted.
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I would pay to have a widget that shows an up-to-date view of Claude’s credit usage.
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Traveling to Egypt and Jordan: Some of My Random Travel Notes
One of my favourite things while flying is seeing a plane go in the opposite direction at a distance, ideally close enough to feel the raw speed of the plane added to mine. I loved Egypt, but the chaos of Cairo can be overwhelming and tiring. I prefer the relative calm of Jordan’s cities. I may be getting too old for some scenery. WhatsApp is a dominant communication platform worldwide, except in North America. Continue reading →
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Better Siri is, yet again, a little farther off — BirchTree
Making a meaningfully better, LLM-enhanced Siri seems to be very tricky.
Well, probably but changing the software strategy over and over might prove to be the real culprit here.
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Having a great time in Egypt so far. Internet connectivity is spotty which explains why I’m not posting more photos. You will be flooded in due time!
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Anthropic cements its position as the not-OpenAI with no-ads pledge — The Register
Anthropic has committed to keeping its Claude AI model ad-free, emphasizing user trust and avoiding potential conflicts of interest that could arise from advertising. The company believes serving ads in chat sessions could introduce incentives that might compromise the AI’s helpfulness and neutrality, distinguishing itself from rivals like OpenAI who are exploring ad-supported models. This decision aligns with Anthropic’s principle-driven approach and focus on maintaining user privacy and genuine assistance.
How long will it last? In today’s tech world, cynicism prevails.
