I would like to maybe be able to say:

Set two timers, one for 20 minutes, and another for 50 minutes.

or

Turn off the lights in my living room, and my office.

That's about as advanced as I want my home assistants to be though.

How about moving away from the unicorn model into creating small, sustainable and focused companies that don't explode, but provide sustainable income.

Lol that sounds good to me, but I'm not the one making those decisions. To be clear, my comment was a prediction based on what I see as the primary motivations of the people with the money. I'm definitely not endorsing this model.

I made a little toy compiler for a university project many years back, and I agree with the article - it's quite a nice way to get hands on with syntax and helps you think a bit more deeply about what is actually happening.

https://github.com/Podginator/Rattle/tree/master

It used JavaCC, which I found to be a pretty simple way to get up and running.

I also worked a job that used yacc to create their own DSL for a piece of software. Same thing, really. Easy enough to get up and running, and messing around with.

Well, maybe, but I think the huge thing missing from this assumption is that Apple are not paying OpenAI anything, and are developing their own in-house and on-device models.

And a lot of what those on-model devices can do are what the average person will want.

And there's going to take a lot to move people meaningfully away from google.

I don't know how fully I agree with this, to be honest. Or, yes, I do - but we obviously outsource a lot to the tools we use. Rightly or wrongly we expect our search engines to source good sources and high quality information. And that has been sort of inbred into people through years of internet use.

Degrading the quality of the output of tools that were once considered reliable and safe is going to create problems, and the onus is not fully on the people using those tools, but on those creating them.

Is that really unique to search engines vs every tool before and after them though?

There are literal ads for Meta Ai on television. The idea they’re not selling something is absurd.

Gosh, my first job was writing HTML emails. Those heady days of lamenting the fact that some companies STILL use Lotus Notes not dead, I see.

It jumped out to me that I had to highlight and ask it to check my grammar, rather than have it be an automatic process.

I don't use Grammarly, really, but I think at least that one is more automatic?

I think there's still a myriad of concerns around the ethics of using others uncredited images to power models that aim to disenfranchise artists.

but my biggest concern is that I think they look tacky, and putting it right in the messaging apps is gonna be ... irritating.

Emoji, Memoji, stickers, now gen images. Can’t wait to start receiving them from my dad and my mother-in-law in the most absurd of contexts. Like honestly, I like how much the older relatives enjoy weird, tacky stuff like this.

Tech people make fun of tacky stuff like this, but it's a big driver for regular people to upgrade quickly.

It is funny to think about how many Apps have probably built text-generation into their product, just to get it enabled on Apple Devices for free.