Neighbors
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This is from Saturday morning's walk. It kind of tickles me how curious they seem to be as I walk by.
Watched much of the WWDC keynote, though I got a late start. I'm still not a fan of this sort of "live shot" presentation.
I think the things that intrigued me the most were being able to use AI to "vibe code" Shortcuts workflows. I'm tempted to install the beta today just to play with that. Likewise, custom extensions for web pages in Safari looks interesting. All the parental control stuff feels vaguely defensive. Who sees a class action suit forthcoming?
The last thing I want in Messages is more intrusive "suggestions." I can barely write anything in Messages without auto-complete or auto-correct interrupting my efforts and making unwanted changes and suggestions. There's probably a setting somewhere to turn that off, but I haven't looked for it yet.
There are a lot of "natural language" calendar event creators, LaunchBar having one of them. Seems somewhat surprising to me that Apple just got around to it. But I guess they were distracted by all the chrome, er, "Liquid Glass" efforts.
I don't know how I feel about the Photos AI features. I hope the object removal feature is improved. It still struggles to remove power lines, and the generative fill content that replaces the power lines is often not very close to the original content it removed in the process of removing the power lines.
I'll be interested to see how smart Siri is with doing things like terminal scripts, or AppleScript. I'm not optimistic. I mean, why would Apple give Siri "intelligence" about its own operating system?
There's a part of me that still kind of wants to be excited about new features in MacOS. I really don't give a rat's ass about iOS or iPadOS. But the whole experience just feels, well, flat now. I'm primed to be disappointed, not "surprised and delighted."
It's a lovely morning outside. I need to get out there and enjoy it.
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