antipaul

This is true. I was unfamiliar with this concept (I use codex/claude daily), and am trying to get to the "bottom line".

Oh, it's there at bottom under "my takeaway". But I still didn't get it initially.

Slop Code Bench? Need a Slop Writing Bench too

Nobody pays for free (& open source) software?

Dunno. I love these events. Polished, well executed, fun. I always walk away inspired.

But then, I'm a fan of Apple, overall, and I like most of what they do.

"The big three are trying to capture B2C mainly"

I think it's more complicated. Anthropic has been focused on enterprise for a long time, and OpenAI seems to be doubling down as well.

I can clearly see, and feel, Dario's associates' "increased productivity" in their Claude Code/Chat/Cowork desktop product...

So many updates, pretty much daily, so many tweaks to the interface. Sometimes the tweaks are a bit dumb, sometimes completely trivial, and other times they just undo what they did previously.

My favorite examples of their newfound velocity:

1. When there is a nice feature that was easily discovered, and then it was gone...

2. When the "customize" section moves around to random places in settings, or entirely out of it

Special mention to their scatterbrained keyboard shortcuts strategy

"All of [SpaceX]'s compute capacity at Colossus 1"

SpaceX/xAI also has Colossus 2, with double or more the GPUs

Seems xAI will still be around

Focused on "simplicity", they used to have only a "tableful" of products.

With more products, will Apple collapse under the weight of the complexity?

Performance wise, they often seem solid.

Usability wise (UI/UX/design), they are in the gutter.