Okay, thanks! The marketing material suggests "Antigravity" is mostly for agent coding (task automating), not a coding assistant. Can it do both?

... N. Korean scheme.

Thanks, I think we all knew this.

...Green Eggs dude is getting canned?

What are public profits?

> The U.S. Federal government has spent hundreds and hundreds of millions on battery research

China also heavily subsidized battery companies.

Allegedly this is how many AI companies are scraping the web for training data.

No IP ranges to effectively blacklist.

Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?

So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".

That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.

Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.

Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.

Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.

If it would iron, fold and put away, I might think about it. Folding is not the time-consuming part there.

Lol, yeah. 99% of cats will ignore that. :-)

I would hope that any AI would be on-device. I think anything else would be a show-stopper.

I mean, if it is lasers, the cat might chase it, and use up all nine immediately.

It's a trivial task that wastes one to two hours per person per month. For a four-person household, that's the better part of an entire person-day wasted every month. So it might be trivial, but that doesn't mean people want to do it.

No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.

That said, there's one very critical design consideration that Apple may not be thinking about, but that will make or break this as a product: upgradability. No one will tolerate throwing away a hundred pounds of e-waste to get the latest version every three years. People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy. This means a modular design, both at a hardware and software level:

• All of the parts should standardize on CANBus for control purposes and something faster like 10-gigabit multimode fiber for video delivery.
• The central core should be a large open space with adequate fans to ensure decades of upgrades.
• The central core should contain a computer in a box that has its own fans to vent into the larger enclosure, and any network switching if necessary should be a separate unit with separate fans. These should be user-replaceable if future design changes require updates.
• Cables should snake through conduit for easy replacement of large components like arms or head.
• Physical connection points (e.g. arm attachment) should be standardized up front and never changed.
• Upgrade units should include: battery (individually, external, quick swappable), cameras (individually), hands (individually), arms (separate from hands), legs (individually), head module (separate from cameras mounted on it), brain, network switch.
• Each of these individually upgradable units should be easy to detach and reattach with a minimum number of screws and zero small connectors or thin cables.
• To the maximum extent possible, each of these pieces should be easy to take apart for component-level repair.

And so on. The software should be designed under the assumption that new software versions should be compatible with older brain units to the maximum extent possible, for as long as possible (minimum 10 years), and that nothing more than a brain transplant should be required for backwards compatibility forever, so long as you are not using new features that require new versions of components (e.g. you might need an upgraded camera module for the eyes for some future feature, but that should block only that feature, and only until you swap the module).

In other words, for this to actually sell, it has to be built more like a Windows PC than a Mac. And this is why as much as I'd love to see the level of polish Apple would bring to something like this, I have my doubts about whether they can distance themselves from the hard-to-repair form-over-function design concepts that they are used to, and create something that behaves more like an appliance that people will pass down to their grandchildren when they die.

> immigrants pay less and take more than the locals they're replacing.

BS, not if allowed to work. They come here with nothing and so are avid consumers.