it's as if the icons get added by a lazy LLM prompt during CI

Which is probably exactly what happened. Reportedly Apple is all-in on Claude across the board.

Nah, blaming AI is too easy. It's more likely that Apple's design culture got rotted out under Alan Dye https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Now that Dye is gone, I still hold out hope that Apple will change direction and start fixing their UI. But that fact that it got this bad in the first place implies things are seriously broken at a senior leadership level.

Was doge ever anything more than a "get root, grab the data, and run" operation?

Maybe, but destroying USAID was an unforgivable sin. Short of nukes, rapidly turning off direct medical and food aid that people in critical need have relied on for years is objectively one of the fastest way to kill millions of people.

Don't forget the destruction of USAID and countless projects that had the word "diversity" in its work.

I think more important than that was shutting down all investigations into Musk's companies.

It's pretty obvious now.

It was obvious at the time too.

Sequoia is the new Snow Leopard

Changed into a directory recently and fired up the qwen code CLI and gave it two prompts: "so what's this then?" - to which it had a good summary across stack and product, and then "think you can find something todo in the TODO?" - and while I was busy in Claude Code on another project, it neatly finished three HTML & CSS tasks - that I had been procrastinating on for weeks.

This was a qwen3-coder-next 35B model on M4 Max with 64GB which seems to be 51GB size according to ollama. Have not yet tried the variants from the TFA.

3.5 seems to be better at coding than 3-coder-next, I’d check it out.

The artist https://www.carlburton.io/

Too right. Drilling into the domain from first principles and with critical faculties enabled unlocks so much more value, because the engineer can then see much better ways to solve problems.

It's just how the memory controllers work in Apple Silicon's unified memory architecture.

You also get much higher memory bandwidth as you move up the scale, from 153GB/s at the bottom end to 546GB/s at the top end.

But Paramount only recently signed a massive deal for Southpark, which is outrageous in its handling of Trump.

They can probably let South Park slide. Stewart’s remarks are cogent and cutting. Cut into 1-3 minute chunks they can be just the sound bites that will anger grumpy old trumpy.

That is before south park made their new shows.

They can’t be that stupid though. You know South Park is gonna South Park. Matt and Trey don’t let up. They’ve been ready to be cancelled for over 25 years now.

M3 support still over yonder, unfortunately.