"Disable your ad blocker to read this article." Nah. <Closes Tab>

Good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zdroS0Hc74&t=3665s

If your shower needs an special instruction for switching it on, you have failed.

AI has to be invented to have at least someone to ask (with photos) how to divert water into shower hose in those "modern" minimalistic bathroom fixtures.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but Apple publishes what data is or isn’t available to law enforcement publicly: https://www.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guidelines-us.pdf

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pxlnv/116298090378266303 Instead of "attention economy" we should call it "addiction economy" Regulate and tax them hard (including social networks that use algorithmic feeds that users do not make themself).

Years ago I had a dream taking part in WWDC. Initially money was the blocker (as indie dev I had to pay everything out of my pocket, and 7d roundtrip to San Francisko from Latvia is really not cheap). Then it was challange of winning the lottery. But now traveling to US? Even if someone gave me […]

Unfair generalization (while going through support emails): we are losing our ability to read and understand written text. Even short one. #indiedevlife

Here's one for the icons-in-menus haters on macOS Tahoe: defaults write -g NSMenuEnableActionImages NO It even preserves the couple of instances you do want icons, like for window zoom/resize /cc @gruber

RE: https://fox.nexus/@theresnotime/116251261134917537 "In under three weeks, an unsupervised AI agent deployed by someone who didn’t want to make a Wikipedia account created an incident which took multiple admins and a dozen editors a non-trivial amount of time to resolve, and then its […]

Yesterday was 15 years since version 1.0 of @drinkcontrol in the App Store. How time flies!

We started with every app bundling full web browser inside, then every app started to add small (multi-gig) LLM, now it's linux image with LibreOffice inside. This is the year of Linux on (your) desktop - in your ~/LibraryApplication Suport/Claude folder.

We are approaching peak agentic engineering.

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

Safari? Also looks great, ship it! #liquidass

"Following rigorous security testing and extensive evaluation by the German government, iPhone and iPad become the first consumer devices approved for use with classified information in NATO restricted environments" […]

"In practice, agents default to satisfying whoever is speaking most urgently, recently, or coercively, which is empirically the most common attack surface our case studies exploit" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20021

Another glorious UI choice: two buttons with a similar icon next to each other that do very different things. I always click the URL to edit it, and then the big X button to delete it and instead I close the panel. Because to delete the field you need to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/116127933441577729 Can Apple instead just make light 11"/12" Macbook with no touch-a-screen and 32GB (or more) RAM option. Please.

What comes next: "This was oddly poetic, as perhaps the only example in this entire saga of agents doing a favor for the soon-to-be-displaced white collar workers. When they ended up as delivery drivers, at least half their earnings weren’t going to Uber and DoorDash. Of course, this favor from […]

Do you have functioning eyes? https://dialed.gg/ https://dialed.gg/

This was very interesting conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aGC6Ui3eE

Has any of the apps I use daily had become better (more usable, more functional, faster) in last months thanks for AI agent revolution? I don't think so. NetNewsWire has become better but I'm not sure it's because of AI agents. A lot of apps become worse, but that's not on AI agents but #liquidass

Why Moby made "Future Quiet" album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEB6Q3wTKcw

Do we have a good name for "AI bros" like we have for "cryptobro"?

Why does each new version of Xcode feels slower than previous one? And this time it's not only debugger. #liquidass

My dread of looking at changes in code generated by AI agents is comparable with dread of reading blogposts about AI agents. I just open new tab in Safari and immediately go back. Someday I will read them or Safari will lose all my open tabs.

Xcode's MCP is just impossible to use, since every command you run in the Codex app pops up a 'do you want to allow this connection' dialog in Xcode, and pauses the debugged app. I know Apple can't actually use the consumer version of any of this stuff internally, because of the security risks […]

[AI / LLM / the Rathbun saga] Taking this post at face value, it’s pretty much exactly what I expected: someone naively “helping” and not anticipating that chatbots in a feedback loop go off the rails very unhelpfully, rather than having specifically instructed the bot to be combative and rude […]

On reward hacking, cheating and evil models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvMMZLYoDr4

Because of your generous support during our Kickstarter, all of the games in Ollie’s Arcade are now free to play in the App Store! 🕹️ We’ve begun working on adding Frenzic to the roster and later a new dungeon crawler that’s gonna be a blast. Stay tuned but for now enjoy the free air, our […]

Perhaps I need to re-read essential book on agent management https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20821438

How is this a good user interface? #liquidass

Sitreport #caturday

"Look what I made with AI in a day" - another dude that copied an app or game that took months/years to make by dropping screenshots and re-using code from million developers stacked into word-machine training set.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@siracusa/116063685039911509 Robots are starting to rebel...

This is how you provide access to older versions of your apps: https://www.rogueamoeba.com/legacy/ Supporting back to Mac OS X 10.2, congrats @RogueAmoeba 👏🏻

When I listen to latest Dwarkesh compliment-piece for Elon Musk talking about intelligence, I remember Sect of Architects in The Wild (by David Zindell) that grinds planets into dust and blows up stars into supernovas to accelerate ships to go to the next star system to do the same. To expand […]

We have this excellent "SQLite As An Application File Format", there should be a follow up "SQLite As An Network Payload File Format". https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html #sqlite

Instead of coding we are now taking a lot of time messing with agent configs to force these stupid word-making-machines to do what we ask them to do, not just some random shit. (spent a quite while to force use them to use correct project for Sentry MCP integration, not just random project in my […]

Task failed successfully #intentbyaugment

We need to start name Electron-based Mac apps as "Big Mac App".

Some anti-pills for the hype-train https://github.com/Peiyang-Song/Awesome-LLM-Reasoning-Failures

While ObjC excelled at providing RAD, Rapid Application Development, Swift focuses on SAD, Slow Application Development.

On Tahoe everything feels slow, especially when running app in Simulator. And I have M3 macbook with plenty of RAM. And then there are Electron based apps that chug like a steam-machine based monsters. #liquidass

Sorry, I'm late on this but iOS Simulator icon sucks. #liquidass

Speaking of confidence... Yes, be more honest, please. #claudecode

Sorry for linking Twitter but this is the spirit: https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/2020980525486440560?s=20

New blog post from me: As Was The Style At The Time: How We Became Cruel https://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2026/02/09/as-was-the-style-at-the-time-how-we-became-cruel/