We as a society need to evolve from PDFs. I don't think anyone likes PDFs. Their only benefit is that they're pretty anywhere because their formatting remains consistent. Surely there's a better standard than one we literally need to OCR just to copy text from.
An Activity Monitor screenshot showing Control Center using 775 MB of RAM
I really don't understand in what bizarro, vibe-coded world that Control Center needs 800 MB of RAM to operate. But apparently, it's this one.
I really like this! A lot more than ChatGPT's "learning visuals" — also announced this week — as this seems less K-12 oriented and more able to explain any concept visually. (ChatGPT often uses its Python tool for stuff like this.) www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
It has been quite a while since Apple last used its "Think Different" slogan, hasn't it? www.apple.com/50-years-of-thi...
With both software engineering and journalism going to shit, I think I’ve found my next career path.
Hot take: I hate AI code auto-completion. It was never really that useful and I only put up with it for a while because I thought it would get better. I've now disabled it in all of my editors.
Embarrassing for the American electorate. Computers are hated more than murderer-kidnappers. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Some personal news: I’m transitioning from CEO to a new role as Bluesky’s Chief Innovation Officer! I’m excited to welcome @toni.bsky.team as our interim CEO.
More here: bsky.social/about/blog/0...
just another day, coding with my agents, living in the "permanent underclass" during a war in the Middle East
…is the “fresh new look” in the room with us right now?
…what? Is this Gurman postulating or reporting?
i hate daylight savings time
not the Meta AI ad on the Mercedes helmet 🥀😭
A “This man is your friend, he fights for Freedom” poster, but with Claude imposed on it
Asked Claude to help me fix a Raspberry Pi networking issue that's been bugging me for weeks (I did all of the work)
Citations 1.2.2 is now available for iOS and macOS. Say the line, Bart: This update includes bug fixes and performance improvements. apps.apple.com/us/app/citat...
I wrote about COPPA 2.0 and why the bill's language is problematic around age verification: eshumarneedi.com/2026/03/06/s...
You'll have to choose between David Croft and a 4K HDR F1 feed through Apple TV, as Sky still broadcasts in 720p (?) SDR. Personally, I don't think it matters, but it is good to know. Other than that, the feed seems solid! No issues so far.
The sad reality today is that I figured out I was wasting my time using Opus 4.6 over Opus 4.5 for anything other than code, and 5.4 over Opus 4.6 for code. The benchmarks don't show Anthropic models as the best anymore, but there's something about them that makes them a pleasure to use.
I want the CEO of Apple to use macOS Taho— oh wait
Kinda sad tbh
How is the Codex CLI so much worse than Claude Code, my goodness.
Think I'm ready to do my LLM rankings.
General work ("thinking"):
1. Opus 4.5
2. Gemini 3.1 Pro
3. GPT-5.4
Code:
1. GPT-5.4
2. Opus 4.6
3. 3.1 Pro
Search:
1. Opus 4.6
2. GPT-5.4
3. 3.1 Pro
Image/document analysis & needle-in-the-haystack:
1. 3.1 Pro
2. There is no second-place.
For all of Notion's problems, it really is the only B2B SaaS product that doesn't suck. Probably because it initially wasn't built to be a B2B SaaS product.
Copilot will play your games for you. Subscribe now for $105/month. (You can’t own the console.)
I’m indescribably excited for this.
New article: Apple’s week of announcements was fun, and I have thoughts on the MacBook Neo, a rant about the Studio Display, and an explanation of all of the changes to the M5 Pro and Max. (I think the latter is the best on the internet — sue me.) Over 4,000 words for your reading pleasure:
It has been close to four hours and I still don't have access to GPT-5.4 on the ChatGPT website. Nice work, OpenAI!
New article: Apple’s week of announcements was fun, and I have thoughts on the MacBook Neo, a rant about the Studio Display, and an explanation of all of the changes to the M5 Pro and Max. (I think the latter is the best on the internet — sue me.) Over 4,000 words for your reading pleasure:
