HTWingNut on YouTube has been running a long-term experiment to answer this question. The sample size is small but it's pretty interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They are sometimes wrong, conspiracy nuts are usually wrong.

Why is the word "all" there? If "both" is already in the sentence, it's superfluous.

Brain-damaged people vote for rich blowhards, magnifying the cycle.

into the 70's

Jony Eye

Hey um, you mean like a furry HAL 9000?: "Pet my pod bay doors, Dave, it feels really nice, Dave!"

I'll bet 1k

This is a big problem. People should be replacing their devices almost constantly. Clearly work remains to be done to make these devices less resilient and with more aggressive planned obsolescence. Nobody should have a device older than 3 months. Think of the all the lost GDP!

Is the purpose of this just to allow confusing abbreviations so you can say you're using AI on Al?

It doesn't matter what they say, just disable them.

I'm a long time Gmail user, and I disabled these smart features years ago because they were annoying. I just want to see my inbox, sorted chronologically. Luckily they still let you do that.

However I continue to see them dangle new features in front of my face with the text "Turn on smart features to use this." They really want me to turn them on for some reason, I wonder why.

They did? Holy shit! I've been typing "edit" out of muscle memory for 20 years, it's finally back!

I actually see more games leaning toward highly scripted interactions rather than AI, so I don't think NPC logic has improved much at all.

Regardless, my point about Daikatana is that the AI "sidekicks" were heavily marketed... and then highly ridiculed when the game failed to deliver because it shipped half-baked. Ubisoft seems to be going down the same path. If they ship these AI NPC sidekicks, they better be either (a) really fucking good, or (b) easily bypassed.

Having good NPC AI usually means it stays out of your way and can be disabled easily.

Fluorescent lights burn bright over a windowless basement cubefarm. It is 1:24 AM, and Bill Alberts, 48, is living his best life.

Due to an org chart mishap, he has been given exclusive control over a neglected application shipped in the base install of Windows, and he is having going nuts, adding every feature he ever dreamed of.

He knows his time is short; soon enough some auditor will notice. He reviews his (HIS!) feature roadmap with a combination of anxiety and glee.

"Social Media" was always a catch-all dumping ground of a phrase. It started to be used by traditional media to describe "Twitter, Facebook, and whatever else you use that we don't understand," and continues on that trend. The fact that Pew Research counts WhatsApp as social media means nothing.

Look, it's not just that iOS 26 has bugs. Bugs are fine. All software has bugs.

But iOS 26 is incoherent. It makes the system less intuitive and harder to use. It reneges on design principles laid down in Apple's Human Interface guidelines. I don't even mind how flashy it is--the glass effect really IS cool sometimes. But touch targets are worse, information bleed-through is confusing, and it does the EXACT OPPOSITE of the claimed design intention to show you more of your content. The UI is bigger and more in your way at every turn. You can see less of what you want to see at any given time in a measurable way. (Seriously, people have measured it.)

Try this out: take a screenshot. Go into the screenshot interface. The control to delete the screenshot is under the checkmark, not the X. The X dismisses the screenshot but also deletes it, though it doesn't give any indication that it's going to delete the screenshot. Now if you take a screenshot of THAT screenshot, it adds a second one, fine. But if you go into the checkmark, your option is to delete BOTH. If you tap the X, NOW there's a control to delete just one.

Apple's stuff really did used to be simpler and more usable, based on tested and measurable design principles. Design wasn't just a look, it was also a science that included usability and interaction.

Alan Dye has ruined every interface he's come into contact with. I was on board with the iOS 7 flat-design revolution even with all its flaws, but we're in a whole different, unusable space now. Bring Scott Forestall back.