One-handed finger swiping to type doesn’t work as reliably as it used to either. I am not sure why.

My recent experiment has been very disappointing. Mostly post upgrading to iOS 26? I’ve had to painfully change my behaviour to two-handed typing by default.

My suspicion— they’ve changed the ML system that inferred words based on swipes, and the new one isn’t as good in real world use.

A timeline of important events in artificial intelligence, curated and maintained by AI. It lists key breakthroughs, models, and inventions from the 1700s to today. The goal is to show how AI has progressed over time, step by step.

Without concrete examples, this reads like an advertisement.

I am personlly very bullish on post-traning and fine-tuning. This artice doesn't do justice to the promise.

The controversy of the decision aside, I think this is a very well written piece of honest, unfiltered, uncomfortable communication to customers.

As a DAU of Arc, I understand and respect the decision.

Hex -- voice to words: https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex

In general, I think voice to text for productive work (e.g. prompting cursor) isn't getting much attention. Hex is a great tool, that works locally on top of open models, and is quite reliably.

This looks great, but alas, it is for Mac (Apple Silicon) only.

I feel the essence here is -- iterative writing improves both the prose and the core point.

When you write well, you iterate. When you iterate, you improve both the prose and the core point -- because you crystalize ideas further.

This makes improvements in these seemingly perpendicular directions counterintuitively correlated.

Ironically I found this specific PG essay uncharacteristically obtuse. This could have been much shorter.

...and your comment communicates a much more believable idea than the one PG is attempting to communicate, which is not quite the same: " I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right."

Your comment also makes clear that this requires that the writer is attempting to make a true core point, rather than (for example) convince people of something it would be convenient for them to believe. If you are dealing with writers who are using their powers for ill purposes, then the skill of the prose may well be inversely correlated with their truth.

“killing your ego” might promise tranquility, but it also means sacrificing a part of what drives us to become more than what we are today.

Honor your ego. Seek peace, be kind, and stay receptive to feedback—but don’t mistake that for erasing your self-worth.

This reminds me of Benn Stancil’s post — “The posters decide”

Winners in the tech space are increasingly pre-determined by VC-influencer cos/ individuals, who create the buzz around products.

https://benn.substack.com/p/the-posters-decide

The combination of computer vision with analytical and creative AI is revolutionary. Multi-modal LLMs are going to change everything. Here are some very real reasons why you should be paying attention

Saw this video on Knot Theory a while back — the developments in this obscure branch of mathematics have been phenomenal in the last century, with wide-ranging impact.

https://youtu.be/8DBhTXM_Br4?si=vDfNBPXpj4OMfLPY

Topology is super interesting. Thanks for the video!