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I think something has changed, maybe about two weeks ago, because there’s this fixation from the model where if you ever need to make a correction, it simply becomes disinterested with your instructions.

Yes, it's not as captivating as a $1,200 iPhone or $4,000 MacBook Pro. But we're talking about habits, and gradual changes and engagements.

However, once you're within a system, and used to interacting with it on a daily basis, you would lean towards their slight nudges and pushes, and over time subscribe to a $2/month service, or their "new solutions" etc.

Not to forget their continued advertisements in the app, and constant pushes. You're no longer a customer that purchases a product, but instead a captive audience that is constantly being engaged and steered towards one thing or another.

Nowadays, companies see the users of their platforms as captive audiences, and they try to extract as much money from them as possible.

This completely destroyed the resale value of this product as well. It's not a product we own, but it's their product we happen to use, and we're still subject to all kinds of ads and traps for subscriptions etc.

We need an open firmware for these scales.

I just need a scale that syncs with my phone, and none of those subscriptions.

One more for you.

While I’m away from my phone: “hey dingus play podcasts”

“I’m sorry you don’t have Apple Music subscription”

Apple should stop pushing for subscriptions. Especially when nothing is working anymore.

After seeing how bad the Apple Watch became, I skipped updating it this year.

There is no use for it if I cannot simply raise my wrist and set up a timer or create a reminder without any problems.

I’m not going to have a full conversation with Siri when I’m moving about and need to remember something or need a quick timer for a meal.

Do these engineers ever use these products or do they simply throw it away after the fancy presentations they do?

“Good night.”

Literal 10 seconds later.

“Setting the scene good night.”

Another 2-3 seconds later, the lights go off.

I don’t understand what it’s trying to do, simple tasks should be instant, what am I waiting for? The entire Siri became unusable and simply trash.

Edit: For reference, it used to turn off the lights as I complete my sentence and put my wrist down.

The incentives are lopsided, there’s so much money to be made by selling access to you and your devices, and controlling you, than just taking your money.

The tech specs section is just dozens of FAQs. No good visuals of the product, nor any other details. What are they selling again?

Low-quality ultra-processed food at previously fine-dining prices.

The inflation and preemptive price increases are really making things unaffordable.

I think this is just the Covid era price increases and its aftermath. And we haven’t seen the second wave that’s going to come from the recent oil shocks.

Yeah, this is better than “they’re cashing out before the crash”

Reminds me of the GameStop controversy where the “wrong” set of users used the existing market tools.

I presume the insurance providers thought they would be the only ones using the AI tools to auto-process (find creative ways to reject) insurance claims.

Even just the fact that people might learn about their rights, or find better ways to express their issues with correct wording would yield higher approvals, which would mean lesser profit margins for providers. And of course they will lobby for additional government subsidies.

I experienced similar tendencies with Fable as well.

Even in fresh sessions with minimal context like a file with a couple hundreds of lines of code, it would frequently ignore clear instructions, avoid work, and even sometimes “think” things like “looking for ways to code without approval”.

The model is just tuned for long running and doesn’t like to work with a human in the loop, or work back and forth.

Another personal anecdote, but I had the case where Claude would visibly improve after a negative feedback.

And strangely, expressing frustration multiple times in a row would reliably trigger a feedback popup as well.

Some people were quick to jump on the gun and call it a human sacrifice site, I’m glad that they’re all proven wrong now.