Core Intuition Daniel Jalkut and Manton Reece
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A podcast about indie software development for the Mac, iOS and other Apple technologies.
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Episode 604: Unethical Stealing Theft Criminal Liars
Daniel and Manton talk a bit more about AI, peoples' skepticism about its value, and their opinion that it obviously has some utility. They discuss the Perplexity AI controversy around HTTP user agents, and whether it's an ethical requirement that all services should always reveal their identity. Daniel talks about his recent adventures with Swift Concurrency, and they weigh the challenge of tackling a major architectural change, versus the payoff from Swift’s compile-time data safety.
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Episode 603: Hallucinizations
Manton and Daniel compare notes after WWDC, reflecting on the thrill of catching up with old friends, albeit on turbo mode. Daniel takes a bow for guessing the Apple Intelligence name, and the two discuss the advantages to Apple of adopting it. They examine the “long runway” Apple has to perfect their AI offerings thanks to the cohesive structure of Apple Intelligence and their inclusion of outside services in the whole package. They compare the relative advantages that on-device, specialized models may have, versus the advantages of “world data” services like ChatGPT. Finally, they question how the AI naysayers will cope with a technology world where AI in some form is increasingly ubiquitous.
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Episode 602: I Think I Know Hot
It’s time for WWDC! Manton’s on the road as a heat wave hits the southwest and California. Will Apple’s AI announcements meet expectations? Will we finally get code completion? What other novel uses of AI could Apple surprise us with? Daniel and Manton talk all about WWDC, AI, the OpenAI partnership, and even what might happen with visionOS.
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Episode 601: Here Comes Apple
Daniel and Manton talk about Micro.blog’s audio features and the uniqueness of “audio narration” for blog posts. They discuss the value of human narration as a counterforce to AI, and how we can use overt feature differences to attract attention. Then, Daniel shares what’s new in the MarsEdit 5.2 update. Daniel describes his workflow for informing customers about updates they requested, a way to make both them and yourself feel good. Finally, Manton is about to start a road trip to WWDC, and they speculate about whether Apple will add a live component to WWDC when Apple’s competitors now have a live audience again — the competitive advantage of being human in a robotic era.
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Episode 600: Two Robots Talking to Each Other
Daniel and Manton talk about Manton's recent blog posts about allegations that OpenAI stole Scarlett Johansson's voice. They talk about the difficulty of arguing on facts when emotions run high, and how people on the internet might jump into any debate if it puts an “enemy” in a less horrible light. They talk specifically about whether Scarlett Johansson has a legal case against OpenAI, and about the importance of using facts when debating issues you care about and not resorting to exaggerations or falsehoods. Finally, they ask how we as technologists can lean into AI while maintaining human emotion and engagement.
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Episode 599: Settling All Business
Micro Camp 2024 is today! Daniel and Manton talk about Micro.blog’s online event, Jean MacDonald leaving the company, and expensive top-level domain names. Then they review the announcements this week from OpenAI and Google, and what all the AI news may mean for Apple, Siri, and WWDC 2024.
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Customer Reviews
Always enjoyable
When I started listening, more than a decade ago, I had a no real experience with coding, and I've never seriously used xcode or apple's build environment. Nevertheless, I always enjoy listening to Manton and Daniel talk about their interesting and often opposite perspectives.
So good! Definitely worth your time.
Good discussions of tech, and life
It’s helpful for me to hear how Manton and Daniel navigate technology, jobs, life, and change.
An hour of two men spewing hatred
This has been a great podcast to listen to over that past few years, I’ve even put it on my special “weekend” playlist so I can give it my full attention.
I can’t recommend this podcast any longer and I’m not surprised by their difficulty finding sponsors. Most weeks now they spend complaining about Apple, vilifying everything about the company, the management, their decisions, their practices.
An hour of two men spewing hatred can be found on less interesting places. Maybe don’t spend so much time on Twitter. Try harder, and contribute something positive to world.