This is exactly the sort of software that was hard to prioritise before LLMs, and trivial to build with LLMs.
There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.
The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.
Apple is a multi-trillion dollar corporation. They spent billions on a doomed car project which never saw the light of day. They release unfinished software on an unsustainable schedule. Their software quality has been declining for over a decade. Their design is lacklustre now and issues go unaddressed indefinitely. They are shoving ads everywhere.
The last thing they need is more things to get distracted with. They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.
They bought Siri, and 5 years later it was still only serviceable at setting an alarm or timer.
Yet due to their hardware and market presence, they've still probably got the best chance of "winning" personal AI.
Don’t try to use it to do the things you did all the time in iOS 26.
“No regressions“ did not make their priority list. No more searching Spotify with Siri.
The fact it won’t Google something and open the SERP seems a little willful. Had to tell it I was doing programming homework and needed to know how to build the URL. (Saying “Search Kagi“ to run my shortcut is the superior workflow, but I was curious.)
danpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
There's nothing interesting going on here, and I don't mean that as a criticism. There's a clear schema, no particularly clever UX needed, you can build almost all of this out of standard UI components, and the problem is well defined.
The only challenge is the actual time input for coding, and that's mostly gone today.
latexr · · focus · HN ↗
The last thing they need is more things to get distracted with. They don’t need LLMs, they need to care and focus on making good products.
jiscariot · · focus · HN ↗
elevation · · focus · HN ↗
Even this is half baked; just try to use Siri to sleep/stop that alarm once it’s underway.
Barbing · · focus · HN ↗
“No regressions“ did not make their priority list. No more searching Spotify with Siri.
The fact it won’t Google something and open the SERP seems a little willful. Had to tell it I was doing programming homework and needed to know how to build the URL. (Saying “Search Kagi“ to run my shortcut is the superior workflow, but I was curious.)