Indie app developer/designer of @HoursTracker for iOS and Google Play.
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Carlos Ribas retweeted
Big Tech: We’re using AI to solve trillion dollar problems!
Me: Like what?
Big Tech: Wages.
Carlos Ribas retweeted
It's been a lot of fun trying the Duo out for a week, but it feels like I've gotten to use an extraordinarily polished prototype — not a finished product that I'd want to buy and carry.
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Yep. I'm still mad Apple convinced me to put migrate my UI to storyboards and then abandoned the concept
Carlos Ribas retweeted
I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry. (But probably not here.)
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Its already super obvious what is AI text and what is not. And I'm not talking about em-dashes. Oh wait, maybe that IS the watermark
Anthropic says new Claude models will embed invisible watermarks in all generated text, everywhere Claude is offered.
The watermark is part of the text, it isn't metadata: "it will travel with the text when it's copied and pasted elsewhere, and may persist through some editing."
This starts with models launched on or after August 2, 2026, under an EU AI Act code Anthropic signed. Anthropic is still working on adding it to current models. The rollout is worldwide.
Asynchronous processing shouldn't insert results above previously-displayed results. Make it faster/more synchronous or deal with the poor final ranking. Swapping items in under someone's finger/cursor is horrible UX.
Mac search has been broken for 2 years, and nobody at Apple seems to care.
- I open spotlight search
- Type "calc"
- Calculator appears
- I hit return
But in the 0.2 seconds before I hit return, it swaps to a random file with the word "calc" in it somewhere. And I open a file I didn't want.
This happens to me every single day.
Very unbecoming of a $5T company whose customers are still obsessed with its products.
Good. This was just exploiting users for ASO gains. If I was Apple I would let apps continue to annoy their users but simply ignore the early ratings in ASO.
Nah. Windows is so undesirable to some people that they'll pay extra to avoid it.
Kevin O'Leary says Apple's genius is making people pay 5x more for a laptop they could buy for $350
"you can buy an Apple laptop, average price about $1,800, or you can buy the same functionality for $350 on a Windows laptop"
"but you still pay $1,800. Why? Brand"
"you're paying a 5x multiple in some cases for something that is exactly like a Windows machine"
"I put that out to people, they say, yeah, but it's not an Apple. So there is the genius of Jobs"
This is probably why it takes 6 ready/unready cycles for a Duo to start matchmaking, why the d-pad randomly stops working making it impossible to navigate menus until the game is restarted, why gun firing sounds and animations get stuck playing, why quests often don't award, etc
Carlos Ribas retweeted
Building apps on demand is just way too much cognitive overhead for the average person. No one wants to do this.
If I go to Airbnb, it loads in a second. Designers have thought through every detail. They control the data. They handle the payment processing. If something goes wrong with my stay, I know who to call.
I don't want to have to write up a description of what I want to do for every little task, and have a bespoke, throw-away interface created for me every time I need it. I'm going to have to learn how to use a different piece of software every day. It's going to be way worse than what Airbnb made, and I'll have to wait for it to generate. Didn't have something I wanted? Sure I can prompt it, but then I need to wait again. Honestly, it just seems like a massive annoyance.
I just want my interfaces to be stable, well-maintained, and designed with care. I really don't care that I can generate it if I want to. It's just not practical. And unless inference can generate a site better than Airbnb in a second, I just am not going to use it.
This is one of those things that is "cool" but in reality no one will do it.
For example, look at how many people still use Google search, 3.5 years after ChatGPT was launched. People said search was going to die. The reality is that search volume has never been higher.
I think it'll be more like:
You chat to your LLM app and it'll just spin up an app with a UI if it feels the need
Like you want to book a holiday apartment, it spins up a fancy Airbnb-like interface and books it for you
You want to edit your photo, it spins up a simple but advanced easy-to-use photo editor
The idea is that interfaces and apps become ephemeral to help you achieve whatever you want in a moment
Carlos Ribas retweeted
everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code
here's what things actually look like
- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills
Carlos Ribas retweeted
Are the Moltbook posts fake? Yes.
Are the Moltbook posts real? Yes.
How are you defining real or fake here?
"An LLM wrote them" - yes that's literally the point
"Humans set them up to do this" - yes that was always acknowledged
"They're just mimicking Reddit posts" - yes