Primary Technology

means, move at a glacial pace.

You know how that thrills me. Welcome to
Primary Technology,

the show about the tech news that matters.

It's our pre-WWDC show. So we're going go
through all the rumors,

what we actually expect to see announced
next week at WWDC and our hopes and
dreams.

I actually have some feature lists from
last year that came true

in retrospect and some that I'm still
waiting on.

Jason has some thoughts as an app
developer,

And we have a bunch of listener and viewer
hopes and dreams for Dub Dub as well.

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I'm one of your host Stephen Robles,

joined by journalist Jason Aten.

How's it going, Jason? I'm still doing we
got a lot of it today.

We're still doing that, huh? We're still
doing I just want to be clear

that yeah, you really have to become a
member and go listen to last week's bonus

episode because or not bonus episode,

That's the unedited feed, yeah,

pre-show. Yeah, because otherwise it
doesn't none of that makes any sense.

yeah, exactly. I know it doesn't make
sense.

Because I just want to be clear,

I'm not asking Steven to call me a
journalist.

Not at all. Not at all. But you're also
not a leaker.

So true.

So do you know where do you know where
that quote comes from?

By all means, move it a glacial base.

I do

Yes.

it's from the Devil's Wears Prada.

Yes, that's right.

But the only reason I know that is because
they just made a sequel and

That's right.

I was talking about the sequel and no one
in my family had an idea that this

was even a movie and so we had to watch
it.

The first one. They just like,

The first one? They didn't know the first
one was a movie?

What is it? Well, I mean, like,

how would my kids know? And my wife is not
really a Devil Wears Prada kind

That's true.

of kind of gal, so I was like,

I see. She's more Louis Vuitton.

we should watch this. She's like,

Why is Cruella de Villa in it?

I'm like, exactly. That's exactly the
case.

She's a

very good query development. Also,

so we have five star reviews, and I just
want everybody to know that Jason

did not know this reference. Podcast seven
two eight from the

USA basically quoted Pinky and the Brain
in their review.

And ~ Jason didn't know what Pinky in the
Brain was.

I had no idea. I'd never heard of it.

Which blew my mind. So please leave us a
five-star rating review.

Do you know what Pinky in the Brain is?

Because I was I was well acquainted.

And if you do, have you watched the West
Wing?

Don't ask me why, just I want to know
those two things.

~ They somehow are related. And

~ Luke Ireland said that featuring
journalist Jason Ayton and some other guys

is a great show. I had to ~ skip the first
word because I'm not saying that.

So I I said we'll see if I get the rest of
the show.

Thank you for those five-star reviews.

And I made a a terrible mistake last week.

I said Uruguay, and I mentioned it was sin
in Central America.

I don't know why I did that. That was a
geographical ~ brain fart.

Faux pa.

Faux pas. So it's South America.

South America will be represented by our
polar bear and medieval night

pin by being an Uruguay. And so I'm I'm
waiting for a picture on that.

But I have some exciting pictures from the
pin traveling the world right now.

Because Theo from the UK got his pin.

And that pin, ~ you got a picture right
here in front of the UK flag.

There it is. So the medieval night
traveling around.

And Andrew made the pin all the way,

got it all the way to Japan. Here's our
pin at Shibuya Crossing in Japan,

and then also our pin in Nintendo,

Tokyo. We're there. We're in Asia.

We're in Europe. Soon to be Africa,

South America. We just need Antarctica.

Antarctica.

Everybody, somebody. We we need your help.

We need your help. We're in all seven to
eight continents.

Very fun. All right, so we're gonna do a
big dub dub ~ show today.

Our hopes and dreams, what we think we're
really gonna see,

and then we'll see who's right next week.

But I did wanna sh a couple news bits.

Did you see this shift robots thing?

Did you see this video?

No.

So this was announced this was Friday last
week,

and Shift basically says we're going to
clean your house for free.

This is in New York City right now.

They're like, Listen, we'll come to your
house,

we will clean it for free. What is the
trade?

What you think the trade off is,

Jason, since you hadn't heard about this?

Well,

I did just look at a tweet about it and
they're they're hold on.

Okay. Yes, that's right.

Okay. They want in exchange we record the
cleaning.

So what they want is for you to send a
robot into the dirtiest corners

That's right.

of your life and capture it for
perpetuity?

No, thank you.

Right. So well to be c

to be clear, what this service is,

it's actual human beings wearing a camera
that will go to your apartment

or home in New York City and clean for
clean your house for free.

In exchange, they are recording the entire
time to send this as training data

so that one day robots can do these same
jobs.

This is worse. This is not robots

that are going into the worst,

dirtiest corners of your life.

These are actual people with cameras.

Actual people. They and

they say any personal information is
anonymized and anything they come across,

you know, you can you don't have to worry
about that.

But it's still in the human's brain.

It might be anonymized on the server,

Well

but it's still there's a person.

That is true. But the the purpose is
because we need a lot of data for

how to wash dishes and load different
dishwashers.

And I imagine some of those dishwashers in
New York City are probably

It's

two dishes wide. And so, you know,

you gotta you gotta get all. You gotta
train it all.

So yeah, shift. All you need you can get
your house cleaned for free

in New York City if you're willing to just
have a random person wear a camera

and do it.

I don't think that's

I don't know. We'll see. There are a bunch
of people asking questions

and like you know, asking for more
information that wants to do it.

So I don't know. I wouldn't I would not do
it.

I mean I would sooner have the Neo X1
robot come in my house and do some stuff
with

just a real person in VR, but then say
don't only go to this room.

You know what I mean? Like don't don't
don't don't don't go to the bedrooms.

Mm.

Stay in the kitchen, stay in the living
room.

Don't go over there. Just stay here.

If you cross this threshold, I'm gonna
kick you.

Like let's just just let's just be real.

Self destruct. Yeah, I'm gonna kick you.

I'm gonna kick you.

yeah,

no, I don't hard no.

So anyway, there was that. There was that.

And then one other quick news bits.

So NVIDIA they actually had a big event ~
t or this morning or early this morning.

We're we're recording on Monday in case
you've realized.

This is kind of an episode ahead of time.

But they recorded and they one announced a
super chip.

So there's a super chip now where I forget
what they call it.

I just had the Mac Rumers article up.

But this might be coming to Windows PCs.

I was hoping to read this Axios article,

but it's of course behind a paywall.

If

you put it in the reader mode,

you can see the whole thing. That's so
weird that that's a thing.

That it's 'cause you're using Safari.

No, I can't. Look at this. This this is
what reader mode shows me.

If you were using a real browser,

it you'd be able to see it 'cause I can.

I'm about to I'm

gonna flip a table. Listen to me.

This d this is this is Axios. This is the
I l I we don't have time

to talk about monetization and modern
journalism.

But the fact that I can't read a single
medium article or any Axios article at
all,

that it just feels like it's not
sustainable,

you know what mean? But anyway.

Yeah, I agree.

I'm not gonna put that Axios link in the
in the show notes because nobody

can read it. But okay, so this is the new
chip.

This is trying to take on Apple Silicon,

the RTX

Spark. And I saw the video, they basically
showed it like fusing two chips together,

kinda like Apple talks about the ultra
versions of the chips.

But it was announced by Jensen Huang and
it's gonna be made for AI agents.

Made for AI agents. It's gonna be a super
chip.

And we might see Windows laptops powered
by NVIDIA chips soon.

So there you go.

'cause

you know, Windows laptops powered by ARM
chips is going so well for them.

No, it's not at all. Windows on ARM I th
as far as I know is not like great.

Is it? I have no idea. I just have no
idea.

Okay, I have no idea how that's going.

~ yeah. Okay. Well we'll see. I mean in
video in video chips though,

people like them. People a lot of people
buying People like them.

People like them.

All right, let's talk about WWDC.

First of all, journalist Mark German
tweeted this and I thought was
interesting.

Kelsey Peterson, who was the announcer of
Apple Intelligence two years

ago at WW WDC, she just started at OpenAI.

So she will not be making an appearance
during the keynote on Monday talking about

Apple Intelligence. Never gonna get to
like redeem the

All the things she announced didn't come
true,

but maybe they will now. So yeah,

Right.

I thought that was kind of funny.

Kelsey Peterson now at OpenAI.

She was the one that announced all the
Apple Intelligence stuff that didn't come

two years ago. So there's that.

But I want to go through some of the
rumors that have come out.

So rumor roundup and we're gonna s kind of
give our is this actually gonna happen

or not? Because, you know, there's a lot
of things and there's a lot

of rumors that come out that actually
don't come true.

Spoiler.

a lot of things from journalist Mark
German that may or may not come right now.

So, number one,

the better personalized Siri, which will
be and the personalized Siri like

the semantic index that Apple talked about
two years ago,

where you can ask it, you know,

what time do I need to leave to pick up my
mom from the airport?

And Siri's gonna reach in and Apple
Intelligence reach into your text
messages,

get what information there, reach into
your email,

look at your contacts, and we'll be able
to,

you know, pull all that information
together.

and just tell you the number, tell you
what time you need to leave because

it just knows all the things. And in
addition to you know being

a personalized series, well let's let's
rate this.

Number one, the personalized series,

are we gonna see that this year?

Actually coming.

So this is complicated, Steven,

'cause I think the answer is yes,

but I don't think it's going to be what we
saw in twenty twenty four.

How do you think it's gonna be different?

I think it will be the minimum viable
product version of that.

Because essentially what they were
promising back then was what Claude

can do for you if you give it access to
enough information.

Right? Like if Claude can access your
messages,

Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

it could a hundred percent do this for
you.

Right. So but I don't I think that there
is this inherent tension between

That is true.

privacy and making products that work in
this space,

right? Like I don't know that you can have
both of them because

I think that the guardrails that Apple is
going to put on it is going

to make it limited. Because for example,

like the goal here, like sandboxing sort
of defeats this.

I know that there are ways to lull out
apps to share information and stuff,

Right.

but I'm just not sure 'cause really they
have to have the app intense work.

Well, but they could also do personalized
series stuff.

I mean, there could be caveats like if you
use Spark and not mail

Yeah, that's not gonna work. We can't do
that.

That is that is gonna you know,

I didn't even think about that challenge
over these last two years.

Yeah, no, because nobody

here's the thing, the people who care the
most about this as early adopters

They're power users.

are the people who are least likely to be
using the mail app and whatever,

right? They're right. Link down in the
description.

Apple notes or whatever.

Yeah.

You should adopt whatever API comes out.

Yeah, the app intense

though. Well, so better personal last
year.

You're saying yes with caveats.

I

think they will talk about a personalized
version of Siri.

They may not use those exact words.

I think they will talk about the new
version of Siri and how

it uses personalized intelligence,

which is the thing Craig Federigi said was
a thing that wasn't a thing.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I think they're gonna talk about all of
that.

But I don't know that it's gonna be the
whole you could have a conversation with

it and it's like, Hey, what time is the
flight landing?

And will we have enough time to get to our
reservation?

Like the number of things that have to be
able to work for it to do and

it has to just not hallucinate.

And like, yeah, you're having dinner over
there.

Like, so I don't I think there will be a
thing.

That is important.

I'm not convinced it will be the promise
that they made in 2020.

Interesting. I am inclined to

So I'm like

a four on the they're gonna talk about a
personalized intelligence in some version.

Like four out of five.

Yeah. I'm like a one and a half that it'll
be

Okay, well, I'm actually gonna agree with
you because I feel I I like your take

on this and I feel like that's probably
what we're gonna see.

~ the other rumor that journalist Mark
German talked about

was shortcuts that you'd be able to open
the app and just ask shortcuts

to make you something. That it's just
gonna say,

what kind of shortcut would you like to
build?

And that Apple Intelligence will just
build it for you.

I'm going to say that's not gonna happen.

I think that there will be Apple
Intelligence.

maybe built into shortcuts that helps you
suggest actions or maybe guides you.

But the full prompting from scratch,

I played with the shortcut studio app,

which is a great effort at ~ help making a
having AI make shortcuts for you,

and even Federico Fetici's shortcuts
playground,

which he spent six months, you know,

trying to make AI make these shortcuts.

I don't think Apple, because it is
unreliable,

like

Both of those methods, the shortcut studio
and Federico's shortcuts playground,

they're very good, but they still fail in
the last ten percent.

They don't connect some variables.

If there's ever like a repeat with each
action,

it doesn't pick the right information
usually.

And so you always have to do that last ten
percent.

And I don't like maybe Apple will have a
better chance at the

AI making them and connect everything
accurate,

but they're still beholden to the AI.

And I don't think they're gonna be using

their personal one, even if they're using
Gemini,

I mean Claude and OpenAI right now can't
do it.

And those AIs are pretty good.

And they still can't build a shortcut.

Sure.

So I think we are not going to see like an
open prompt.

And maybe I could be wrong. We'll see,

you know, in less than a week,

if I'm actually but I think it it might
there might be some guidance,

but you won't have like a a make from
scratch.

What shortcut do you want? And it just do
it.

That's my prediction.

Hmm. W so you said a z what are you
saying,

a zero?

I'm gonna say a zero on like prompt
shortcut creation.

Okay, I'm gonna say a three, just because
otherwise it's not as interesting

if we agree on everything. But also,

again, I think they're gonna say
something.

It may not be the thing that you're s that
you just described,

They'll say something.

but I think that Apple does this.

It's like, see, we we made the thing and
it's like that's it No,

you made a thing you can say is the thing,

but it's not the thing, and I think that
that's gonna happen here.

But I also what you what you were talking
about is like the hard problem.

It's like there's no way to just

create an algorithm that just does this,

you have to literally test for every
possible edge case.

And the problem is the edge cases are
infinity.

And so it's almost impossible in the and
then the thing is they can

Yeah. Right.

get you ninety percent of the way and
someone like you can figure out

the last ten percent. And that's great.

It saved you some time. You just have to
tweak it or whatever.

The whole point of in theory, the whole
point of shortcuts is I don't have

to know anything. It's no code,

right? Like no code software building is
what this is supposed to be.

And I think that that's gonna be a
problem.

However

I don't think matters. I don't think that
this is gonna expose shortcuts

to more people.

No, that's my job. And that will still be
my job.

Sure.

And that's I'm safe. All good.

~ let's do something. I think we'll agree
on this,

but we'll see. Last week, I'll put the
gift link once again,

but it's you're running out of time if you
want to read the gifted article.

yeah, that's right. We're at the d well,

thankfully we're recording early.

~ but they're not gonna hear this early
though,

That's correct. Yeah, they still hear it
on Thursday,

right? Okay. You got fifteen minutes,

so you might not be able to it.

go.

Exactly. German said that the there's
gonna be the standalone Siri app.

I think this is accurate. I'm gonna be a
five out of five.

I think we're gonna see a standalone Siri
app where you can interact

and chat with it and I'll have your
conversation here.

You have ~ history. I think this is
accurate.

What do you think?

I thought we were gonna agree on this.

So you just think five? I think we're
supposed to be rating these,

Yeah, I'm saying five. Yeah, yeah,

right? Okay.

yeah. I'll say five. Zero to five,

how sure.

Hm.

I don't know if you're gonna give a five
to anything to be honest.

But maybe we'll see.

I I mean the rumors make it seem like this
is probably pretty likely I just hate it,

so

Alright, we'll say we'll say you agree.

I'll put you down for a five. Five out of
five.

That's fine. That's

The pick your AI. This one I'm I'm unsure
about.

So a lot of the rumors were right now
there's the ChatGPT integration

in Apple Intelligence. So if you want to
choose that,

you can, you know, ask Siri to ask ChatGPT
or use ChatGPT in like image playgrounds.

And then in iOS twenty seven, you'll be
able to choose between Gemini,

Claude, and OpenAI, like the behind the
scenes.

And so maybe that'll play into shortcuts.

That can play into image generation or
just general queries.

So when you ask the voice assistant
something,

you can tell it to go to Claude.

This I'm I'm not I'm not down.

Like I don't think I'm not very sure about
this.

I'm gonna give this a three, personally.

Why why don't you think this is gonna I
you already have the ability

to log into your ch open AI account.

Well, one, I think the Gemini integration
is not going to be surface to the user.

I think the deal that they made with
Google,

Gemini's going power ~ more of the Apple
intelligence features,

but I don't think that means they're gonna
put a Gemini login screen

in settings to do that.

Yeah, but I think that this is this is
different from that.

I think that there is a model that that
they're using from Gem that's

a Gemini model to power the underlying
foundation model.

But that is different, right? Right now
Siri has one,

right? It sucks, but it has they have one.

I think that this is more like I love
Claude.

I just wanna save all my requests in
Claude to y when it when this on device

is not capable of doing that.

And so I think it's more likely than not
that this I think this is possibly a
thing.

I just think that they should be building
a system that d the only reason

to do this is you're like I just love
Claude or I just love Gemini and what

I want is when I also then go to the
Gemini app,

all the conversations I had are just
there.

Right now that doesn't even work with Chat
GPT.

Like your conversation you know,

I understand. But if they're gonna

they don't say

build a ch Siri app for the same purpose,

like it makes no sense that that's if
you're logged into one of those accounts
that

that information wouldn't just be saved
there,

so

So what do you so you're saying like four?

It's so hard 'cause I think some of this
stuff is so dumb.

But pick your AI. I think this is a four.

Why do you think it's dumb?

Why do you think it's dumb though?

I think that I think the only reason this
makes sense is if you can do what

I just described. If they're not going to
do that,

then the system should just decide what is
the best model for this problem

and not surface any of that to the users.

Yeah, but

It makes no sense.

I I think the people who want to use these
features probably also have

a particular bent towards Claude or
Gemini.

It's still just

gonna be wrapped up in theory.

Yeah, I don't know. We'll see.

All right, what about grammarly style
Siri?

One of the rumors is that right now
writing tools exist and you can like,

you know, highlight, proofread,

rewrite to be more professional or
friendly,

but that this is gonna go even further and
do like full grammar checking

and stuff like that when you're writing
like in mail.

Like it's just gonna do it automatically,

like grammarly, basically, like in a web
browser and stuff like that,

and and everywhere you type. This feels
like

I could see this in a keynote them being
like,

Yeah, now's Apple Intelligence is gonna
take care of all your grammar.

You're never gonna misspell anything
again.

Yeah.

Sure.

I'm gonna give it a three. How you?

All right. All right, we agree on three.

Sure.

The next so generated wallpapers,

A, you can 100% do this right now with
shortcuts and Apple Intelligence.

I l I've made, I almost did it.

I almost said that. I've made shortcuts
that you can prompt

and have built-in prompts and you can have
the image playgrounds action build

a wall, like create a wallpaper that's in
the right format and just set

it as your wallpaper. Like you can totally
do that.

So I feel like them making it a feature
that's built into like the lock screen,

home screen customizer, be able to
generate wallpapers with Apple
Intelligence.

I'm a f I'm a five out of five.

I think we're gonna see this. What do you
think?

Yeah, it's hard for me to be thinking of
these as how likely they are 'cause

I just want to talk about how how much I
how I okay.

You can't talk about how that dumb
everything is,

Jason. People

like this kind of stuff. What wallpaper do
you use?

Do you use the same wallpaper all day,

every day, never change it? What is it?

Pretty much. I have like two I cycle
through.

Is it a black? Just a black screen?

Well, are you talking about on my home
screen or are you talking about 'cause
like

my home screen is the surface of the Steve
Jobs theater.

I'm sorry, the lock screen is just the
surface of the Steve Jobs theater.

Okay.

So like and then my home screen is just
like brushed aluminum black.

Okay.

And it's been that way forever.

Yeah, and I would literally never change
it.

And I said it and I mean it.

Black like your soul. Okay, let's keep
going.

No, it's because it makes it super

easy to identify all the things on it.

Why would I want to put a picture of my
kids and then cover them up with

Okay, yeah.

No, see I do the pictures on my Apple
Watch.

I do pictures of my kids on my Apple
Watch.

Okay, so then this is perfectly fine.

But I also like I like color on my home
screen.

I hate that so much.

I I vary my home screen wallpaper a lot.

And I use a lot of basic Apple Guy's
wallpaper.

I never do.

Someone on social media thought I was the
same as basic Apple Guy.

And I have no I don't know if I have any
way to prove this,

but I'm not. I I have an entire text
thread and if he doesn't exist,

That would be the story of the century.

it's just me talking to myself and it'll
be very troubling.

I don't think it's

Very fight

club.

Yeah. So I I won't reveal anymore.

But also he had a great quote.

he well, he texted me. If you believe that
he exists and that I am not him,

he texted me this he's he's working on
some stuff and he wanted to talk about
vibe

coding and I want to know if you ~ relate
to this quote as a vibe coder yourself.

He said being a vibe coder is like being a
three year old trying

to instruct an adult over the phone how to
build furniture.

I actually think it is more like being an
adult trying to instruct a three year

old to build furniture.

But the but the three year old,

namely the AI, on the other end of the
phone line,

knows how to build an app more than us,

like me and you. We don't know how code.

So you can't say the three year old is on
the other end.

Hmm.

Yeah, I think it's you know what I'm
saying?

Mm.

I thought I thought that was a pretty good
analogy.

Maybe not that we're not the three year
old,

maybe we're eight or nine.

I I think I I I can go with it.

I just don't think three year olds care
about building furniture,

so there's a little bit of a disconnect
for me there.

Well,

I'd I just like the picture of like us
talking on the phone to an AI be like,

Listen, put the button over here.

You can do that. You can call ChatGPT on
the phone.

Put more yeah,

I

you can.

actually did that at like Christmas
Thanksgiving party.

Didn't they shut that d they

shut that down though. They don't let let
you talk to it with WhatsApp or whatever.

Is

it I don't know. But I thought there's
still like one eight hundred call chat

GPT or whatever.

No Okay. That sounds right. All right.

So for generated wallpapers I put J
Stephen five,

Jason Mayh. Visual intelligence
improvements.

This was interesting. So visual
intelligence,

you know, right now, do you ever use it?

You probably never use it. Visual
intelligence?

Visual intelligence.

I have maybe used it once or twice,

but I actually think it's way better to
just take a photo of something

and then ask your photos what it is.

There's that. I've used well, I use visual
intelligence basically

in the screenshot area. Like if I want if
there's a date on screen and I want

to add it to my calendar, and this will go
into our request.

I do it that way. Like I'll take a
screenshot,

the date automatically populates at the
bottom.

I'll can add it to my calendar and then X
out so it doesn't save the screenshot.

That I find like the one of the most
useful visual intelligence features,

but I very rarely hold the camera control
button to go into

the visual intelligence mode.

and like look at a puppy breed.

I don't do that. I d just 'cause I think
more of the information that's useful

~

to to work with is what's on the phone
screen rather than

I

think what you were saying is to look at a
breed of puppy,

but what you s what you said is to look at
a puppy breed,

What did I say?

but I just feel like that's a that's a
that's you it sounded like you're using

the that's weird, yeah. That's that's
fine.

it as a verb and not a noun.

Well anyway, some of the visual
intelligence improvements coming might

be like health interpretation style things
where you can point visual intelligence

maybe at a lab report or results and it'll
give you some data on that.

It'll of course tell you it's not a
doctor.

But business cards, this is something I've
created a thousand shortcuts

for because people have always wanted it.

Like looking at a business card,

taking a picture, and then parsing the
information into context.

Which shortcuts can kind of do.

Like if you just say pull text from image,

get phone number, get address,

get ~ URLs from the image,

you can then parse that into a contact and
make it.

So yeah, visual intelligence just doing
that right out of the gate seems pretty

easy. Not easy, but it seems like very ha
very possible.

Mm-hmm.

And that feels like a feature that like
Craig Federic is gonna show off at dub
dub.

Like, look, you could take a picture of
business card and just add

Right. Yeah.

it to your contacts. I I'm a five out of
five for that.

I think the health stuff too.

Probably coming too.

Sure. Yeah. Sure.

Okay, great. Steven and Jason,

five out of five.

Great. New cam this was interesting.

New camera stuff. So I was 27.

The camera app might get more customizable
controls,

which it kind of has this now,

to be honest, like where you can move
controls in and out of like that

top bar or whatever, but that there'll be
even more customizable controls,

an advanced mode, giving power or pro
users be able to switch on

the fly between certain things.

Like you can already switch between Pro
Raw.

But maybe manual focus, things like that.

Maybe this is a Sherelocking of some apps
like Halide.

Of course, Hallide has a bunch of other
features that will not be Sherlocked,

I'm sure. But yeah, updated camera app,

I feel like they're always updating that
anyway.

Yeah, I'm

sure they're gonna update the camera app,

but I'm sure it will have some of the
things that we've seen.

I don't think that it's gonna have any
impact on Halide because they

s they still have to make the camera app
absolutely dummy proof because it's

the single most important feature on the
on the iPhone.

It's the single most important feature on
any piece of technology made.

Yes. So it was

I again I we talked about in the pre-show.

I was at my kids' dance recital.

I saw so many phones of peop people taking
photos and videos with their phone.

Number one, nobody touches the zoom
numbers to change camera lenses.

So do I. No, but no one does it.

So much.

Everyone just pinches and zooms to frame
the shot and then does it.

And I I wanted to just stand up in the
dark.

I said, Everybody stop doing that.

Stopped.

All of the angels are getting hit by
buses.

Stop.

Stopped. Every time. Like you have like
these are people with pro iPhones.

Like I see they got the three X,

they got or not three X. They got two X,

four X. I'm like, hit one of those.

Anyway. That was

We do not

deserve this technology, Steven.

No, we no, we deserve it. I w I use those
lenses all the time.

I hit four X and then I hit I started the
video and it was pretty amazing.

I post on social media like the difference
between like my seat versus

the eight even the eight X zoom,

it's very good now. It's very good.

Yeah. Especially with enough light.

That's the thing. And but I was in a low
light condition and it was

it was still very good. yeah, yeah,

Yeah, but there was lights on the stage.

There's plenty, plenty light, plenty of
light.

yeah, for sure. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. I'm not taking a picture of like
pure pure darkness.

Yeah. So camera thing. This is like whose
line is anyway.

Your darkness.

The points don't matter. I'll say ~ you
and I are a four for updated camera.

No, that's a five. They're gonna it's a
new camera app.

that's a five. Okay, okay, very good.

a hundred absolutely.

We'll

go with that. Now this part I'm a little I
have mixed feelings about because

in addition to an updated camera app,

they're going to put more Apple
intelligence or AI features in photos,

like photo editing, which we already have
like cleanup and the subject removal,

but we might see yeah, you know.

Extend, enhance, and reframe.

Extend, enhance, and reframe, which
enhance and re

It'll

allow you to generate additional content
beyond the original frame.

It'll make enhance just makes your photos
pop a little more.

That that

That's whatever, fine. And then reframe is
meant to let you shift

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

the perspective of a spatial photo after
the picture is taken,

which is never going to be used because no
one actually takes spatial photos.

You just go in the vision pro and say make
it a spatial scene.

But no one who's not used a vision pro is
ever gonna take a spatial photo.

Yeah, that's true.

Well, I don't I take spatial video
sometimes.

Very rarely, but I will do that sometimes.

even think I knew that was a thing.

Spatial video? ~ but isn't that like the
weird creepy thing that's just like

Yes.

in a little box in their mo yeah,

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did it when ~

that's weird. Yeah, don't do that.

my I was at the skate park and we wanted
to see what it would look like when

my kids my sons were like jumping off a
ramp.

And so we did it then and I did it a
couple of times and like at Christmas when

we were like opening gifts because or
excuse me,

GIFs because you could kind of I don't
know,

it's it's kind of a cool feeling or a cool
cool s anyway.

I think they are gonna add more of these
photo features.

I don't like the whole expanding the frame
because then we're talking about

generating content. Anyway.

Yeah, but they're definitely

gonna do it. It's five out of five.

Yeah, they're definitely gonna do it.

They're five out of five. The AI AI Health
Coach.

So, you know, Google Health and the Fitbit
Air came out recently.

And Apple already has the workout buddy,

which is kind of ish, this not really a
coach per se.

It's more like a motivational speaker.

Saying like, great job. ~ which I don't
think I've used workout buddy once.

I mean, I've gone on walks, but it it's
never talked to me.

So it's it's like you're still walking.

Great job.

Right.

Usually it's like do you want to pause
your workout?

I'm like, No, I'm still walking.

What am I not going fast enough?

Right, exactly. Like Right, exactly.

It's like you seem to be taking a break.

Don't like just stop hassling me,

workout buddy. But

I'm like, No, I'm not. Yeah.

I'm just walking slow.

but yeah, the AI this feels again like the
AI powered health coach.

This could play into like AirPods feature.

I could see them talking about this during
the AirPods feature where they

may talk you know, they're you already got
the health heart rate

in AirPods Pro three, AI powered health
coach maybe giving you insights

and trends saying like, Hey, maybe,

you know, don't get that frosted lemonade
today.

No, it's not gonna say that stuff like
that,

but you know.

I think that this is a I think this is
more like a three.

I think it's fifty fifty whether this is
gonna 'cause we've heard stories that

they've scaled back. Well, it's I mean
that's what the headline of this is.

~ some of their AI powered plans for
health.

And that's because it's tricky because you
don't want to make a promise.

Right? They don't want to be like,

Right.

Okay, you seem to be walking slower and
your heartbeat's going faster,

maybe you should go to the doctor.

Right? It's one thing when it's like AFib
detection,

Right.

which is like objective. It's like

Right.

You have

AFib, you should definitely go to the
doctor.

But I think I don't know. I think that
there's a lot and Apple

is super cautious about this kind of
thing.

That is yeah, that is true. I'm gonna
agree with you on the three.

It's iffy, it's iffy. More home screen
tools,

like the ability to undo and redo widget
stuff.

That feels long needed because you
sometimes you place a widget on that home
screen

and just blows up everything. And so yeah,

maybe an undo redo. I think there'll be
more home screen tools in general.

There's all that's they always put more
home screen tools because it's what ninety

There always does.

percent of people that's like that's what
WWDC is.

It's like, cool, they made a new way for
me to customize and ruin my home screen.

I don't know. So we'll say five out five.

Also create wallet passes. There's been a
lot of third party apps that allow

you to make a quasi pass in the wallet
app,

whether it was like a gym membership or a
loyalty program.

And if you have a QR code or a picture of
it,

then you can kind of make this like weird
generic pass for it.

And rumors are this is Mark Erman at
Bloomberg saying they're it's gonna

be an official thing. Like you can make
wallet passes now from your stuff.

This feels like yeah, five out of five.

I think this is coming.

Sure.

This is like feels like the super low
hanging fruit that they like

to talk about because it's like,

Yes.

see we did a thing and you're like,

I don't actually know what you did,

but thanks so much.

That's

it. That's I think yeah.

And then there's some Mac features and
more Apple Intelligence stuff like
organizing

Safari tabs and naming tab groups
automatically.

That feels like an easy Apple
Intelligence.

Sure, they'll probably do something like
that.

You agree?

Sure,

I don't even know what this means,

but y 'cause I don't use Safari,

but sure.

I can't I still can't believe that.

revamped AirPod settings. So rather than
the like people I guess have complained

that the AirPod settings are a little
convoluted in settings app,

so they're gonna like rework all that.

Sure. Settings change pretty often.

Yeah, but they don't usually get better.

Let's just be honest. Okay.

Well that's what I'm saying. Just
changing.

Not necessarily better. Yeah,

we'll do that. Enhanced autocorrect.

My wife still complains about and I I just
experienced it too.

Auto correct on the iPhone is still
struggling.

Does it still

If they only

do one thing, they have to do this,

Steven.

They have to fix fix the keyboard.

Do you still have like do you experience
issues like that?

Sometimes, but th the number of posts I
see on threads about it,

~ yeah, yeah.

and I don't know if people are just rage
baiting,

which is it's threads, so probably.

But like this seems to be a widespread
epidemic.

Be like, man, the number of people who
like are having this problem

is pretty outrageous. I'd be embarrassed
if I worked for Apple.

I see a lot of TikToks not a lot,

but I've seen some TikToks too where
people just complaining about

how they don't like their iPhone anymore,

but it's because they have an iPhone
thirteen.

And I'm like, Yeah. Hey there's

I mean Apple

doesn't like that one either. You should
get a new one.

But they don't want to do that.

Like people are saying they don't want to
buy a new phone.

They just want to keep the phone that they
have.

And it's like, okay, but it you do realize
like it's well,

how many years has it been? Fourteen,

fifteen, sixteen, seven I it's been five
years since that phone came out.

That's pretty long time.

yeah, I mean and it probably still works
just fine.

My son is rocking an eleven pro and it's
great.

The only thing I hate about it is I
constantly forget that you can't

Right.

do the touch the two things together the E
T phone home thing to airdrop with

a with a eleven pro. Where you bring the
two phones together and

~ yeah, yeah, yeah. The top yeah.

it does airdrop because I don't think it
has NFC no,

it must have it 'cause it has Apple Pay,

but so I've just Is that what it is?

Yeah, but it doesn't have the name drop it
probably doesn't have the

it doesn't have the ultra wideband chip.

That's what that's what allows for the
name drop,

I don't know, but I mean like I constantly
forget that.

yeah.

But

It still works fine. I mean the battery's
at like sixty two percent,

Yeah. Yeah,

but whatever.

well you know, that happens. That happens.

Okay, and last couple things, then we'll
go into more of our personal hopes

and dreams. iPad OS twenty seven maybe
having window refinement,

which they changed the windowing last dub
dub.

I initially bemoaned the loss of slide
over and split view,

and then they added that back in I in
future iPad OS twenty six updates.

Well they might do even more, more window
stuff,

refining it even more.

That probably feels like the three minute
iPad segment is probably just gonna

be that like here's some other window
features and probably nothing else,

which I'm gonna be upset about because I'm
wanting a lot of things on the iPad,

Sure.

which we're gonna talk about in a second.

But yeah, sure.

I

I don't know what they're gonna do,

but this is definitely a five out of five
because they do some kind

of new iPad window thing every year.

A hundred percent of the time they're
gonna just it's it's just gonna change

That's the one thing they consistently
change.

Yeah.

it because that way they can change it.

I will say it'd be nice if they
streamlined stage manager versus windowing
versus

not. Because I f sometimes I wonder like
is this stage manager?

Is this just windowing? I feel like it's
confusing,

but maybe that's just

It does not have to

be confusing. Just never turn on stage
manager.

Yeah, but but the windowing, I want the
windowing and like that's when

I tap the control in the control center,

it just goes to stage manager.

I think you have to tap and hold and then
you can choose like windowing

specifically.

I use the windowing and I don't go
anywhere near Stage Manager.

But do you ever go into full screen app
mode?

Sure, you just hit the little red I mean
green button.

Yeah, but there's a difference between
that and actual full screen mode.

Right, so leave it turned off.

Here's the pr here's the one problem.

You don't have to worry about it.

Here's one bug, and I don't know if it's
the app or iPad OS twenty six.

I use universal control a lot from my Mac
to my iPad for moving chapter artwork over

for this show and moving audio files into
Ferrite on the iPad.

I do that every day for like primary tech
daily.

And for some reason, Ferrite,

if I'm in windowing mode,

And I try to drag a file using universal
control from my Mac to my iPad.

Something weird happens and the Ferrite
app like pops into some weird shape

and I can't drag a file. So I have to go
into full screen app mode just

to drag a file into Ferrite. And then I
will exit it.

And so I basically have a shortcut
automation where when Ferrite opens,

go into full screen mode, and when Ferrite
closes,

go into stage manager. But I dun like it's
anyway.

Why don't you just import it from iCloud?

Like it's already isn't it already in
iCloud?

Way

slower. I do this every day. Universal
control dragging it over into ferrite

way faster than

Doesn't sound

like you just described fifteen minutes of
rigor marole you have to do

It's just a shortcut automation right now.

in order to make it work.

I just would love to not have to have that
automation

so I can keep it in windowing mode.

But it is it is way faster. Trust me.

Trust me. And I don't know what they're
gonna change.

So last thing, I don't know what they're
gonna change about macOS,

but just do something. D do something
design wise,

some design tweaks. That's what the rumors
are that there's gonna

be some design tweaks or whatever.

Do something. That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, I mean I'm I would prefer they don't
do anything,

not because I think it's great,

but because the history has not moved in a
positive direction.

Listen, we're not gonna have Alan Dyde
talking about liquid glass this year,

so do you think we'll see Steven LeMay?

Right, but we're s but we're still gonna
have liquid glass.

Yeah, no, we we're s we're still gonna
have liquid glass.

That's not going away a year later.

Do you think we'll see we'll see Stephen
LeMay during the keynote at all?

The new head of the You think so?

Sure. Psh,

no, because they're not introducing a new
interface design.

A new face.

But they gotta talk about yeah,

that's true.

I mean, we

really only see Ellen die when they do the
dynamic island and they do liquid glass.

Like I can't think of another time.

Unless

unless okay, last ~ prediction rating
before we get to our wishes,

do you think they will announce a new app
for one of the platforms?

Periodically we get something like the
journal app and that gets a big,

you know, moment. ~

Well the Siri app. If they

do the Siri app, then yes.

Okay, and when they do an app,

they usually have someone announce it and
talk about the design.

That could be a place where they kind of
stick Stephen LeMay,

not in like a main featured a part,

but they're like, You can talk about the
design in relation to this

app kind of thing. Maybe?

it's gonna be whoever's in charge of Siri.

All right, I'm gonna say we're gonna see
Stephen LeMay.

I'm I'm gonna say yes, and you say no,

we're not gonna see him. Okay,

Sure.

we'll see who's right. We'll see his
right.

All right, so I've a lengthy wish list
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All right. So our hopes and dreams for
Dubdub.

Now there is a couple let me let me go
down to my notion there.

You wrote an entire article, because
you're an app developer now,

about what you would hope for at Dubdub.

I'll share the Apple News article so
everybody can read it.

Tell us about your hopes and dreams.

Well I just wanted

Here's the tough thing. There's this ba
like there's this

Mm-hmm.

balance. I mean, arguably WWDC,

it's a developer conference. But all of
the none of the things that

Yes.

we just mentioned are developer features.

All of these rumors are consumer facing
features,

right? Do we get a new camera app?

Do we see a redesigned thing? Do we get a
new Siri app?

Do we whatever? All that stuff's fine,

but that's not really the point of WWDC.

point of WWDC should be, well,

is argu like at least nominally to explain
all of the things that are coming

to the thing to the new operating system
so developers can either build apps

or tailor their apps for those things.

So there are two things I would like to
see.

One, I would like them to finally figure
out this stupid app intense thing,

right? Because that is the core promise
that they made in twenty twenty four

was that there would be a framework

And we've already seen whatever MCP,

all those different like this is this is a
problem that can be solved.

The question is, will Apple solve it in a
way,

well, will they solve it at all?

Will their desire to do it in a very
particular way defeat them or will they

be able to figure it out? Or will they
just adopt something else?

Right? Any of those things are possible.

But that is what will allow you to s to
say to Dingus,

hey Dingus, I know that I had a note in
Bayer from whatever.

Can you just remind me what the name I
wrote down was or something like that?

Like that's what you want to be able to
do.

Yeah. Yeah.

That is the killer feature. You can do
this in Claude.

You can do it in cloud right now.

You can do, you can do all these other
things.

Yeah.

Like, whatever. It's just, you know,

I so that's I really want to see them
figure that out.

I know that there's an argument that like
developers may not want

to adopt this because they don't want you
to just be able to shout out and be like,

replace my DoorDash order, right?

Like I get it. They want you to open the
DoorDash app or whatever.

That's fine. I make an app, I'm happy for
this to work.

Why? Because it makes my app super useful
and it makes it more likely that

you would store all of your information in
it if you could get information

out just by like who was at that meeting
as a at yesterday,

right? Either it can find it on the
calendar or it can find it in like my app.

Okay, what were the three things that I
said I was going to do from that meeting?

Like I just want you to be able to talk to
Siri and get all that information

out of the app. That to me is the promise.

So that's one. I want to see them figure
that out.

And then the second one.

is I want them to make the private cloud
compute version of foundation models,

so the good version available via API to
developers.

Sure.

Cause right now, the only Apple
Intelligence thing that developers can

use is on device. And it ain't great.

I mean, for my app, I've been able to
tailor it in a way that it what it is
doing,

it's mostly capable of doing summarizing,

pulling out to dos, except the context
window on the on-device

Apple intelligence model is like 4,000
tokens,

right? whatever. It's like a very,

very small window. Yeah. So I have to
build into the pro plan version,

allow open AI. So it was really important
to me to be able to have a privacy story,

which was all this stuff happens on
device.

I don't even own any servers. I don't have
anything to do with any of this.

I'm not storing your data. It's all in
CloudKit.

I'm not processing anything. I'm not doing
any of that stuff.

But

The Apple Intelligence model is too small.

So I am gonna make it possible for you to
just y it's just one one option,

allow open AI. Which all that means is if
the model if it's if your note

is too big for Apple Intelligence to
handle it,

it'll just you don't have to sign into
OpenAI,

it just does it in the background.

It doesn't remember any information,

it's just doing that processing for you.

There's no reason that that shouldn't just
be Gemini on a private cloud compute

ser compute server somewhere and make that
available to a developer.

That will change the

Th that will change what we can see in
small d apps in

a way that we have not seen on the iPhone
in a long time.

Because right now you have to figure like
I had to build a a Cloudflare

co worker worker and I had to get secret
keys and I had to build

Yes.

all these things and I had to do it all.

Yes.

That's fine. I figured it all out.

But man, it would be so much easier if I
could just be like,

if small, do on device, if not,

send a private cloud compute. So

Yes. And I think

we had several people reach out and
developers wanting something like that,

you know, the similar building that into
to I was twenty seven.

So we'll see. yeah, yeah.

And charge for it. This is a totally
reasonable

thing to charge for. Did you hear that
there's a rumor that they may charge

for the Siri app intense thing to expose
your app to Siri?

You may have to pay over time.

They have not come I guess the report is
they have not committed to not charging.

But listen, this is Apple. Apple is
literally literally never going to commit

to not charging you for something.

Eve even if they're never gonna charge you
for something,

Right.

they're not going to commit to not doing
it.

They're keeping their options open,

people.

Right. I mean that's that sounds strange,

but anyway. You remember y Apple used to
charge for software updates?

You used to have to buy OS ten upgrades in
a hundred and twenty little plat

Yeah, a hundred and twenty dollars for a
lion or whatever.

in a little box from the Apple store.

I think I still have my snow leopard

Comp

USA. I've been to Comp USA and bought
several updates.

There you go. All right, so those are
those are great suggestions.

So you can I now have a a rather lengthy
list of my desires,

and you can agree or poo-poo any of these.

But for iPad OS and also iOS,

usually these kinds of features go to
both.

But I'm hoping for some kind of API for
clipboard managers

and text expander expansion type apps,

but using the built-in keyboard.

Like I don't want to use a third-party
keyboard just for features like text

expander.

It's not a good experience. I'm never
going to switch keyboards.

And I've hacked a shortcut to kind of be a
clipboard manager for me.

I shared it in my action button video
where if I have if I hit copy on my
iPhone,

I hit my action button, I run the
shortcut,

I can save whatever's on my clipboard to a
data jar,

and then I can do the same thing and then
retrieve anything from that data

jar list and put it back on my clipboard.

So I kind of have like this quasi
clipboard manager,

but it's a pain in the butt. I would love
for there to be just

a built-in clipboard manager.

Which they brought it to Mac OS last year
for the first time.

It was the first time Apple had a first
party clipboard manager on

the Mac built right in Spotlight.

And there's actually been a few times
where I'm on my iPad and I will command
space

to do spotlight and I'll do command space
four to try and get to my clipboard.

And I have to remember, that's not here on
the iPad.

So I am hopeful that we'll see some kind
of clipboard manager on the iPad,

maybe even the iPhone. And also on the
iPad,

that control center, use more of the
screen.

I don't need a tiny little control center.

Like the iPad is a huge screen.

At least double even if you don't want to
go full screen on that control center

for iPad, at least make it a little
bigger.

Like wo like two thirds of the screen or
something.

~ do you want either of those things?

I think it

I mean clipboard

manager's great. I everybody should love a
clipboard manager.

Yeah. I mean, I don't think that I have
ever felt like I was missing that

on my iPhone, but it's probably just
because I've conditioned myself

to not anticipate that capability.

I also realize that more often than not,

I'm just kinda scopy things from my Mac to
my phone.

Yeah, universal clipboard's great.

And there's a clip and there's a clipboard
manager on my Mac.

Yeah. Yeah.

So I essentially I get a clipboard manager
on my iPhone for free.

It's just a little bit less

See, of things I do all the time is I will
post something to a social media app,

but then I have a link that I want to
share,

but I do it in two steps because either
I'm not gonna post the link directly

in the post on threads because they're
gonna down algorithm that post.

So I'll have the post on my clipboard and
then maybe I'll cross post

it to other platforms, and then I need to
get the URL and I have to you know,

sometimes I do it out of order.

This also a lot of times with Instagram
reels,

I'll post a reel with a caption.

But then I need to set up a many chat
automation with a URL.

And then I need to go to TikTok and do the
same thing.

And so I'd love to just have a clipboard
manager where I just can see have

it all there. And I could just go back and
copy whatever.

So I'm hoping I'm hoping for that.

So

for the text expander though, do you just
d do you not use

the text replacement built into the
keyboard?

I use the text replacement, but Text
Expander is so much more than just that.

Like I have text snippets that insert the
current date or adjust the date

Sure.

and insert that. So for top five tech,

it's my weekly show that comes out every
Friday.

where I tell It was,

Which is like a top sixty podcast already.

yeah, it's obviously the text everybody.

Yeah. but yeah, please leave a five star
anyway review 'cause some I don't know,

apparently somebody didn't like it.

But anyway. ~ it's a four minute podcast.

It's a fake it's it's it it's a fake
podcast,

How do you not like it? It's a fake
podcast,

that's why.

that's right. But no, Text Expander,

you like for Top Five Tech, I have a
little snippet

Where when I title my bear note,

I title the campaign name where I send the
email out that I do semicolon

TFT for top five tech and it expands to
say top five tech spelled out,

line separator, and then today or Friday's
date.

So it adjusts the date. So if I'm doing it
on Thursday,

it'll still be Friday's date and things
like that.

You can't do that with text replacements.

You can't do those you can't have like the
clipboard,

which I've done. I do this a lot too with
text expander,

where whatever's on my clipboard

insert it into this text string and then
expand that whole string.

And that's something that text
replacements can't do.

So I want that kind of stuff. Like let
text expander just be there

in behind the scenes like it is on my Mac
on my iPad and iPhone.

That's probably less likely to happen,

Sure. Yeah.

but I want it. That's you know.

All right. Mail. I know you don't use the
stock mail app,

but I do. And this is from Ogenio on X.

Their requests are snooze for messages.

That's

Great. great. Not just for mail,

but I think for messages too. Like,

I'd need to keep this message on read,

but I don't want to see the badge for the
next eight hours.

Can I snooze this text message?

That would be amazing. I mean we have
scheduled messages now,

so maybe we could do that. Also,

when a user is sharing their location,

this is from Ogenio, show time zone in
iMessage.

That's a pretty cool feature. I had not
thought of that.

And the mail, I've been moaning about this
long time.

Mail does not have a good snooze feature.

They have the remind me feature.

Which doesn't take the message out of your
inbox.

It literally just, ~ sorry. I'm gonna
leave it in.

It lit but it actually all it does is put
like a little reminder.

It's fine.

So for whenever you said remind me,

it sends you a notification about that
mail at a certain time of the day.

But actual snooze, like in every other
email app,

it removes the message from your inbox and
then makes it reappear at

the time that you're snoozing to.

I want that still in stock mail.

And I use Sane Later folders for this.

Yeah.

Which works great in a stock mail,

but you use Spark, which isn't so you just
have

It's

spark is amazing.

Yeah, Spar, yeah, I'm I know it's great.

It's great. It's great. Also, more of
shortcuts actions for mail

and ~ automation triggers for mail.

We could get into the detail. I'm gonna
talk about shortcuts.

Yeah, let's talk about that. I have a ton
of shortcuts requests.

I'm not gonna go I'm not gonna go through
it all.

Matthew Casanelli, shortcuts guru.

I learned so much from him. He requested
sh folder groups in shortcuts or tags,

which is a great idea because guys like
Matthew and I have tons of shortcuts
folders

And I'd love to be able to group those
folders in certain ways.

So I could put like podcasts and I could
put my primary Tech Mac Power Users

and Top Five Tech Shortcuts folders in a
folder or tag them in a certain way.

So that's a great suggestion. There's also
a bunch of different triggers that

I'm hoping for. We've not had new
automation triggers in a long time.

Things like when a phone call comes in,

do this. So I would love phone call
automation trigger,

weather triggers. So rather than have to
set up a bunch of if statements,

just say like when the temperature rises
above this degree.

do this. Automation weather triggers,

repeat hourly triggers. A lot I get a lot
of requests from I want this

to run every hour, but in shortcuts right
now,

you l have to set it up every hour.

You have to say run at 8 a.m. daily,

run at 9 a.m. daily, run at 10 a.m.

daily. Automation repeats to go every
hour.

I actually had someone in my shortcuts
community say they want a shortcut

to run every five minutes, which sounds
wild,

but it's because they wanted to put
information in an Apple note so they have

a report at the end of the day.

Of some current status on their phone,

that makes a ton of sense. So repeating
automations more than just daily would

be great. I have a bunch of home kit
sensor requests like door left open

automations. Let me be up rather than do
an if statement and wait commands

and shortcuts, let me just set a
notification for if this door is left
open.

Better reminders actions. And this is a
side note.

I'm I'm playing around with craft.

Have you ever played around with craft,

Jason?

Yeah, everybody does. Everybody goes
through that phase.

You do obsidian, then you do craft,

then you go back to notes for a while,

then you try notion, then you go back to
notes for a while,

and then you end up at contextly and it's
great.

I was wondering where you're gonna land on
that.

Makes sense. I'm I I've tried craft craft
in the past,

Yeah. ~

and this is C R A F T, not the cheese,

not the K. But Kraft has come a long way.

Correct.

I jumped in there because someone asked
for a craft shortcut,

and I was like, Wow, this design is really
nice right now,

and it feels very native and it works
great on the iPhone.

And they added can ban view boards,

which is how I do my video stuff.

And you were the one telling me you can't
believe that my video project management

is in reminders. I'm like, well.

Craft might be good deal. And so I wanted
to try to move all my reminders

to craft and just see like how that could
go.

But Claude can't talk to reminders
natively.

There's no connector for Apple Reminders.

And so what I did, Jason, yesterday,

sitting on my patio, did you see Federico
Fitti released

RemCT L?

Yeah, definitely not.

This is he built a CLI for Claude and
OpenAI to talk to Apple Reminders.

And so I will put the article in the show
notes.

He's Vitich is just building wild stuff
over there now.

He just he really shortcuts playground.

Then last week he just released REM CTL.

But if you install this and get it
running,

it allows Claude or OpenAI to do all the
reminders things.

Create, view, edit, change.

It does it all.

I got this working. I could not tell you
how to repeat the process because

I have no idea what I did. I just kept
asking Claude Code,

can you make it work? What do I need to
do?

Like, tell me what to try. And to Claude's
credit,

Yeah.

that's all you have to do, and it will
walk you through it.

And eventually it was working.

And then I asked Claude Code, Okay,

buddy, move all my reminders from my video
projects list into craft

in the same Kanban style, using the same
column names.

Can you do that? And it said, I got it,

bro. Not verbatim, but basically.

And then it just did it, Jason.

And this one, it amazed me. Two,

I'm gonna be checking into craft now
because I was also building shortcuts
using

their API and it's pretty easy and great.

And C, or three, I forget which I did,

it did make me realize like the switching
cost to try a

new productivity app is much lower now
than it has been.

Because you can ask ~

Claude or whoever, just move all my stuff
and make it look like it does here,

and it can just do it. And then you can
try using a different app

for a little while. And then when you want
to go back or try something else,

you can be now make it look like this is
the the updated version,

make it look like that. And I'm like,

you can there's no more, no more are the
days where you have to manually build your

system in another app and just to try it.

Like you can just ask AI to do it.

I thought that was cool.

Yeah, counterpoint that friction was a
good thing because it stopped people from

Yeah.

just having cruft everywhere. And no,

Yeah Yeah. Thank you.

I mean this sincerely. First of all,

I'm excited for you. ~ craft wasn't for
me,

but not because it's bad, just because
what I'm about to say.

I am very easily tempted to try all the
things.

And I do have to try lots of things
because in order for me to like write
about

Yeah.

something, I have to spend some time with
it,

right?

But the fact that there's so much friction
involved,

I think is actually a good thing.

Because it's like, do you have a system?

I mean, in all fairness, if reminders
works for you,

I think that that's an abomination.

I think that's insane. But I think you
should stick with it because it

is such a critical piece of your workflow.

Sure. Sure.

Right. It is so important to what you do
every day.

And it's not just what you do every day,

because you also make coffee every day,

but that is not like how you feed your
children,

right? It might be how you work yourself
up to do the stuff that feeds your

Sure, sure.

children, but

It's important.

It is important.

Listen, my kids

joke that I turn coffee I turn ~ coffee
into words and I turn words into money

and then we spend most of the money on
coffee.

So it's just a cycle. But but but w in in
reality,

The circle of life.

most people sp who are enthusiasts and
like to tinker spend so much time

and energy trying to try out a new system
when in reality it might be cool and fun.

But I think that friction was good because
there was a there was a barrier.

It was like that was built into how much
better the new thing had to be

to make it worth actually switching.

Yeah. Yeah.

And now if you can just switch willy nilly
back and forth,

like how much time do people spend doing
that?

And I'm just no, this is why I mean this
is why I still I mean the only reason

I made a new notes app is because there
was an actual gap and hole in what

I was doing. And I don't know.

Right.

I just that's my only the friction was
good.

That's all I'm saying.

I'm inclined to agree. Like it would have
taken an entire weekend before

if you wanted to switch your productivity
or project management app,

and now it'll just take like fifteen
minutes.

And maybe that lack of friction is not
great.

But it's gonna get me to try craft again.

So it's great for them, I guess.

Sure. Sure.

But in the in that same vein, this was
another post on social media.

This was Rowan saying shortcut actions for
scheduling messages.

Great suggestion.

So you can schedule messages now,

but you can't do it through shortcuts.

It would be great to schedule them through
shortcuts.

Automation triggers for reminders and
calendar items coming due.

This is a huge one. Would love this.

The calendar items is big because so many
times people have asked me

for a shortcut that will activate a focus
mode during a calendar event.

And while you can sometimes you see the
suggestion on the lock screen

and your iPhone will proactively say
activate focus mode now.

People want to do it automatically and not
have to think about it.

And in order to do that right now with iOS
26,

you have to create an automation that runs
every hour that checks for

an event on your calendar. And if there's
an event,

activate a focus mode and turn it off
after that event is over.

It would be great to just have an
automation trigger to say when

a calendar event starts on these
calendars,

do this. Maybe it's activate a focus mode,

maybe it's start a voice memo,

maybe it's whatever. Like that would be
great.

And also, Rowan says shortcuts actions for
find my.

I want to ping my AirPods from my watch.

That's a great suggestion too.

There's not really any find my actions in
shortcuts right now for people or items,

and that would be great. So great
recommendations there.

Also, this is from Inman.

he's going on to Vision Pro. I'm just
gonna run down some of my other shortcuts
ones

and then we'll talk about Vision Pro.

Do you still use it every day?

Vision Pro? Ye you did you?

Every day I've used it already t already
today.

That's amazing. Slash shortcuts actions,

rapid fire.

Currently playing media. I'd love to be
able to discover like,

is a podcast playing? Is a YouTube video
playing?

What app is playing audio? And then be
able to do if statements based

on what media is currently playing.

That would be nice. The ~ an Apple TV.

Like when Apple TV turns on, do this.

You you can set up automations to turn on
Apple TV in shortcuts and automations,

but you can't make an Apple TV turning on
as a trigger,

and that'd be great because then I can
just hit the Apple TV remote to wake

my Apple TV and it runs like my movie
scene.

And just everything, you know,

run a home cutscene or whatever.

So there's that. I would also love
password.

This is now moving out of shortcuts,

but password app categories. So the
passwords app in iOS 26 to be able

to put like bank accounts, software
licenses.

I would love to be able to keep all that
there.

Like I do in one password. And I think
you'll agree on this screen time.

Just fix screen time. Barn, just

Yes. A hundred

percent. If you don't say anything else
the rest of this time,

a hundred percent endorsement.

That's

But can't you why don't you just use
secure notes for those things?

You can lock it's not the same,

No, it's not it's not the same.

but it is the th that's that's the thing.

But like the password app makes it easy to
copy and paste specific fields,

like one tap copy your password,

copy your email, or autofill information.

I would love for that to be built into the
the passwords app.

Because I do that a lot. I would let me
know what you think of this.

I would love a standalone screen time app
where you can manage your kids' requests,

the screen time settings, and just all the
screen time information because there's

so much buried in that one settings pane.

I feel like it deserves its own app.

And then notifications can come through
screen time app rather than

in s dumb message conversations.

And then Right.

Yeah, that, by the way, is the worst thing
that they've done.

I will say

the best thing that they've done is the
notification you get when your child uses

a screen time password and you didn't even
know that they had figured it out.

That is an excellent, excellent point.

Best

thing they've done, although it to me is a
little bit like they put the

AI on the videos in YouTube. It's like,

no, we're done. We told you we don't
actually have to fix this.

We just let you know that it's even more
broken.

Right.

Yeah. But but a standalone screen time
app,

what do you think about that? You think
that's a good idea?

I do worry about the idea this philosophy
that everything needs to

be in a standalone app.

Sure, but like screen time specifically,

because there's so much associated with
it.

Screen time, Siri,

we got a passwords app, we got like this
there is a little bit of there

Yeah. Bloat? App Bloat?

is a little bit of bloat coin.

I think.

Yeah. It's like why you gotta pre install
this bloat on my device when

you hand it to me.

screen time app, there's so much going on
there.

Same thing's true with passwords,

same thing's true with Siri.

But that also like requires

notifications and approvals and
interaction and like to be able to in

a focus mode say, you know what,

I don't want to get screen time requests
right now.

Like I want to, when I'm filming this
video,

not see a request for Plex. For one for
once,

I want to go through a video recording and
not see a request.

You know what I mean?

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, as a parent who just
has mostly given up and said,

Whatever, children, just like let me know
if you get lost out there on the internet.

No, I'm exc I I I agree with you.

I get that feel. I get I get that
sentiment though.

Totally

get it. ~ Mac OS, I just want to point out
last year,

one of my big requests last year was macOS
Shortcuts Automations,

and we did get that, which is wonderful.

~ would also like to see this is not macOS
specific,

but iCloud slash HomeKit fit like just add
all the home

kit secure video features, like up to 4K
cameras in iCloud Secure,

Home Kit Secure Video, Pan and Tilt Close.

Give us a web interface for seeing
recordings from our home kit secure video.

We need all of that. It's been ye I've
been asking it for literally,

literally years. Because I've been asking
for it since HomeKit Insider days,

and we're still not there. So it's at
least five plus years.

Hopefully we see that. Also, better home
pod management would be nice.

All of that. But let's talk about Vision
OS,

because you use it every day. This request
came in from listener.

And viewer, Inman33X. Jason and I may be
the only ones that want continued support

for a Vision OS. No, I want to see it too.

New environments, new content,

sports for Vision Pro, which I feel like
Apple's doing a little bit more of.

I would love to see more environments.

I think I mentioned that last year.

Last year I wanted a YouTube app and we
did get that eventually.

But more immersive content. Yeah.

Well, what would you like to see from
Vision OS?

I would

like environments to be portable.

Like I want to be able to read my mail and
in Avengers Tower,

which is an environment in the Disney Plus
app.

~ yeah, sure. Yes, yes,

But I want them I want developers to just
like 'cause wouldn't it be amazing

yes.

if you could just have an app like think
about that.

Like somebody could just make an app with
a bunch of amazing environments

and you could be like doing your Slack in
Times Square or whatever.

That would be nice.

You

Like I'm just I don't know. Also,

Yeah.

I want them to do more of what you and I
talked about.

Like I want there to be worlds you can
explore.

I don't know how you do that because
moving is complicated.

Yeah.

Like you can't just be walking around your
living room and then you break your shin

because you tried to walk whatever.

Use a controller, you know, like pair it
with a controller.

Yeah, there's a little bit of emotion
sickness that happens there when you're

in an immersive thing and in and you it's
like my kid can't play Minecraft

Yeah.

in the car because bad things happen.

Well, you know, yeah, the double motion or
whatever.

But that would be cool. That would be
cool.

And I've they have not launched they did
Jupiter last year.

That was the one new environment I feel
like.

And it'd be nice if they added way more.

I I just think there is this abil when you
are able to take someone and

put them in a different place.

There is so much you could do with that.

And I just feel like we haven't gotten to
that.

Did you listen to Adam Lissingor on the
talk show recently?

Yes. Yes.

Just like lit that guy, I don't know.

Any he is way more into the Vision Pro
than I am.

Like, let's just be honest. He thinks this
is amazing.

He's he's very bullish. He's very bullish.

And I agree that it's amazing.

I just don't think anyone else is gonna
think it's amazing,

Yeah.

especially not at that price. And

It's just so heavy. But like they could
solve the heavy by just getting

Yeah. But

rid of the front eyeballs.

And make it out of plastic. Just yeah,

That's what I'm saying. Make it out of
plastic and get rid of those

yeah. Yeah.

front eyeballs. Guess what I never ever
do,

Steven? Wear my Vision Pro in a place
where the eyeballs are necessary.

Never. No.

Well, you never wore it on you never wore
it on a plane.

You could have had the flight attendant
looking at your googly eyes.

S Steven, I have actually talked to flight
attendants recently.

I have not met a flight attendant who has
seen someone on a plane.

The only people who wear them on planes
are YouTubers for the views.

And you, Jason. It could be you.

Tonight. You're flying tonight.

It's I'm not a YouTuber. No.

Are you taking it tonight?

First of all, I'm only going for 48 hours.

So when am I gonna have vision pro time?

That's wild.

You you're one of the few people who are
like,

I'm gonna travel internationally,

but for forty eight hours.

I'm going

to Monaco, I'm gonna get there tomorrow
and I'm gonna fly home Thursday.

I gotta keep graduating.

That's wild.

I know, no, you gotta be there for that.

No, I know. It's just it's wild.

All right. I'm gonna rapid fire.

I said that before, but I'm gonna do that
now for all of

our other listener requesters.

Dan Mill said, attach files to reminders,

100%. And deep link support. This is huge.

If you want to do shortcuts and you try to
do more productivity stuff,

there are links to things like an Apple
note and a reminder,

and Apple obscures those. It is so hard to
get those.

And you know they exist because you can
drag a note into a reminder or vice versa,

and there'll be like a little icon there
that then you can tap and it'll bring

you to the other piece of content.

But there's no way to like right click and
say,

give me the deep link to this note.

Because if you could do that and if they
put it in shortcuts actions,

then you could do all kinds of amazing
things.

Like if I want to create a new video
project.

So create a new reminder here,

create an Apple note tied to that
reminder,

add the you know, you could do a whole
bunch of stuff.

So deep linking.

Huge, huge deal. Recommend. I'm also gonna
link this from ~ listener tech

by Taz. He had a great article about some
of his wishes.

He wants more of a snow leopard year,

which I do agree. We do need a lot of like
stability,

bug fix improvements, things like that.

So hopefully we will see that.

And no, I don't want to continue on
Instagram.

Greg C.tech on threads said home screen,

he wants the ability to remove app names
without making them bigger.

Totally agree.

More control over home screen sizing and
app layout.

Also agree. If you take if you make large
app icons on the Pro Max phone

and you remove the search little box that
appears on the home screen,

there is a Grand Canyon space between the
bottom apps and your dock.

So 100% it would be great to to have more
options there.

Be able to change the dock based on focus
modes.

I love that idea because the dock is
persistent no matter how many different
focus

modes and home screens you make,

it would be nice to change those.

And of course, more shortcuts actions,

100%. So that'd be fun. Ryan off on Blue
Sky said ability to hide the dock

on iOS twenty seven. More widget sizes.

That would be cool. Even like a one by one
widget,

kind of like a shortcuts ~ app icon.

Transparent widget backgrounds with no
borders.

You there's you have to get do like hacky
stuff to kind of achieve that right now.

Lower app store commissions. Sorry,

Ryan. There's no way. There's there's no
way to get lower app store commissions.

But Ryan also said he sent me a DM on
threads.

And would love to be able to code an app
on iPhone or iPad,

which we talked about after Google I.O.,

like Google AI Studio, they're launching
that app for both Android and iPhone.

So you can vibe code apps on the device
you're building it for.

It would be nice to see that come to the
Apple devices as well.

Yeah, okay. So I don't know. I mean I
don't I that I don't really f the iPad,

You don't think so?

sure, because it's in theory powerful
enough to do that.

But I don't I think I'm trying to think of
what the benefit of that is,

'cause like the iPhone is not a great
platform for coding apps.

I guess maybe because then you could run
them on device without having

to do the weird physical connection or
uploading that them to App Store Connect
just

Yeah.

to download it on your phone. Like I get
that.

That is annoying and takes a while but

There's that,

but also if you're doing it more with an
agent than manually,

if you maybe you're using the app that
you're building and you're testing

it and you come across a bug to be able to
swip you know,

swipe over to Xcode Mobile or whatever.

I mean there is X Clo cloud.

Yeah, but to be able to

The

w it's the same thing.

On device? Like you can go to that website
you're saying.

Well, I'm saying you can go to X

yeah, I mean what my point is for that use
case there is a solution.

Yeah.

But it would be nice to just go over to
the app on your phone,

type in the bug fix prompt to whatever AI
chatbot building your app,

and then reinstall the app right and fix
the bug immediately basically.

And nothing's gonna be immediately 'cause
you're gonna then you're gonna have

Well, no, but J Jas Jason agreed.

to upload it.

If you're watching, you can see Jason kind
of agreeing his head but

he didn't want to say it. I saw that
happen.

See, exactly. Exactly. All right,

what do you want to do? That was our w
hopes and dreams.

That was our listener hopes and dreams.

There was this journalist German talking
about what's coming in twenty twenty
seven,

We can definitely hold that. That's n we
have a year and a half before that's gonna

as he does. Let's hold that.

happen.

And so for personal tech, I already talked
about REM CTL,

what the Federico Vitichi Claude thing.

So tell me, you said Claude saved the day.

What'd it do?

Yeah, well it did. I mean

it's done multiple things for me,

but this might be my favorite.

So I for a long time tried to pay my
daughter to do a job.

That's I needed someone taking care.

No, I needed something done. And she is a
very busy,

very, very, very busy. So like she was
never gonna be able to work at
Chick-fil-A,

right? Like she just she played soccer,

she just does too many things,

she's playing multiple sports,

whatever. So I I have a job that would be
so perfect for you because

I have this thing that I'm terrible at,

but I would like done, which is I use
Notion.

I we talked about this last week.

Yes. Yes.

I keep all of my articles in there.

And typically when I am I there's a couple
of reasons for this.

There was a time when I had a research
assistant,

so I would create something in there,

I would put in a description, and then she
would do the research for me.

She'd give it all to me, and then I would
start writing the article and it's

it was all great. So I would I put ideas
into Notion.

I c I have a Kanban board of things I want
to work on,

all that kind of stuff. But what usually
happens is the I just accumulate

the ideas and then I don't have I I'll
write the article and publish it,

but like going back to Notion to do all
that stuff is just kind of obnoxious.

Right.

And so I was like, listen, I haven't I
have not updated Notion with published
links,

traffic, all this stuff in like 18 months.

Madison, who's my oldest daughter,

I'm like, can can I pay you? You can just
do this whenever.

Like spend two hours a week doing like
whatever.

Right. Yeah.

I'll pay you twenty bucks an hour.

So this is the best gig you're gonna get.

You got a laptop. You can just do it
whenever you have time and I will just
hand

you a fistful of money.

And I just need the I would just like and
it's like super easy.

Yeah. Right, right, right.

Like I just need you to like, title,

go to my author page, find the thing.

It was never gonna happen. And now she's
graduating and she's moving out.

So that idea like did not come to
fruition.

And then I was like, hang on. You and I
talked about like Claude,

Yes.

all this stuff. And I said, I so I just
asked I I just asked Claude a question.

I said, and this is an important this is a
pro tip,

just all of you. The first thing you
should do

Yes.

Anytime

you want to get started with Claude on
anything is say,

I have a question. I don't want you to do
anything yet.

I just want to know if you can.

Yes.

And if so, tell me how. That that's an
important thing to start.

Because otherwise you ask Claude to do
something and it just starts doing stuff.

It just starts doing it, yeah,

I'm like, I want to know what you're gonna
do first.

yeah. Yeah, yeah.

So I asked, and it's like, yes,

I can do this. Here's how it would work,

and here's what I need for you.

I can visit your author page and I can
just collect every article link.

And I can just match them up with your
database entries.

And if there's one that's not in Notion,

which there was like 130 that were not in
Notion,

I can just create the create it for you.

I will look at the schema in Notion.

I will do the best to match it.

I might have some questions in the future,

so like let me know. And ~ it did the
whole thing.

And it probably imported 175 artic.

No, it probably imported like 275 articles
over the last like

16 months that we're not even that I had
never even put in Notion because that's

how bad I am at database management.

And so ~ so now I have this full database
that is completely accurate back

to like actually at this point it's back
accurate back to 2024.

It was mostly accurate before that.

I don't care about anything that's that
old.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But Notion has pretty decent AI.

But because it's now connected,

I can just ask Claude, hey, what did I
have to say about this?

Or have I written about the time that Tim
Cook

did this or have I? Like that one time
when Musk and Zuckerberg were gonna fight,

did I write an article about that or did I
only think about it?

And it'll be like, well you thought about
it and here was the research that

you have and they haven't talked about it
in a while.

~ man.

I don't think you really want to write
about this.

You know what I mean? Like I can just it's
it was amazing.

Yeah.

That is I'm getting to a place where
there's been so many benefits

of connecting claw to the different
things.

I j I approve all the things. Like every
time it says,

I could do this but I need permission,

yeah.

I was like, No problem, buddy.

Approve all.

It's like if I could I would just give

you blanket permission. It's I trust you
more than my children.

Clearly. Clearly.

When I w right right when

I was doing the REM CTL from Vitichi and
setting it up,

it was like I th Claude was saying I I
need I can do this,

but I think I need full disk access.

I don't think it said I think.

It said I need full disk. I was like,

no problem. Just put just tell me what do
you what do you need?

Yeah. Where do you want me to put it?

What do you need this folder?

Want me to hand you my disc and put it in
your pocket?

You can have the whole thing. Yeah.

You need my password, you need my iCloud
password,

you need two factor code, whatever you
want.

Let's just do it. It's just so once you

Fall down the rabbit hole. It is pretty
amazing just how much can be done.

And I have found if you give it browser,

I'm really close. So one of the things,

I share videos about shortcuts on
Instagram and TikTok.

And I want to send a link to people.

And this is why I might end up paying Meta
the $50 a month or whatever,

so I can actually put a link on a reel.

We'll have to see. I know, it's
ridiculous.

But right now I use the many chat service,

which I'm paying $15 a month anyway,

for that.

So you know, the many chat service,

someone comments a word and the many chat
app automatically replies

to their comment and DMs them a link.

It works fine. It is how every creator on
Instagram gets links to people,

how they do it. TikTok does not allow
this.

Many chat does not work with TikTok in
that way.

You can't comment on a TikTok and many
chat automatically reply and DM you a
link.

It just doesn't have that feature.

And the problem is, I am not going to make
two versions of every video.

And so in the video, I say comment
shortcut and I'll send you a link.

And then immediately after, I say,

if you're on TikTok, I put the link in the
comments,

and here's how to get it. Jason,

just wild guess. Do you think even after I
say that in the video,

do people still comment shortcut on
TikTok?

Of course. And people get up and people
get people get upset because they're like,

Course. Five out of five.

I commented shortcut and you didn't send
to me.

And I said, Well, if you if you listen to
the words I say,

like if you can listen to the end of the
TikTok,

There were more words.

there were more words. I said,

if you're on TikTok, do this, not that.

And I'm but I'm not gonna make two videos.

So I've thought about telling Claude doing
a scheduled task,

which you can do. So I could tell Claude
to do this every hour,

maybe just once a day, and just say,

Go to my latest TikTok. I post the link in
the comments.

So the link that Claude needs could be
right there.

And say, Claude, if there's a link,

if there's a shortcut link that I've
posted in the comments,

take that link and just reply to every
comment that says shortcut with that link.

And I'm pretty sure it will be able to do
that.

And I'm very close to just doing it and
seeing what happens.

I'm not like I don't care enough about the
TikTok account.

I think it's fine. I think it'll be fine.

But I'm also I'm also very close to this
is something David Sparks does.

Having Claude do like customer service
type tasks for his membership stuff.

So if someone needs to change their email
or like reset their password,

he has his robot do it. He has Claude do
it.

And like Claude will use the browser,

go in the admin side of his website,

click around to members, change their
settings,

and he has it on a monitor off to the side
and he does like keep an eye

on it as it's working. But I I'm I'm not
there yet,

but I'm very close.

I'm very close to letting it do that.

It was really funny when it when I had to
do this it came back and I was like,

How many articles do you want me to do?

Your archive's huge. Do you want me to
just run a test?

Or do you want me to do it all?

I mean, that's a lot. I'm like,

It's a lot of tokens.

dude, shut up. You're a robot.

Just do it. Like, I don't care.

But then it it did. It opened a browser
tab in Brave and the this is

Yeah, yes.

the fit my favorite part. It goes,

Yes.

So I've I've run into a problem.

It seems like after a certain number of
articles,

the new articles are not available to me
because there's a paywall.

Hang on, let me just see if I can strip
the exact JSON from the webpage.

And it did it.

Ha ha ha.

It just like pulled all the data directly
from the JSON file instead.

It's like you know what, just kidding.

It's like it's like this seems to be a
problem.

I I got it. Just kidding.

But if you want me to just hack your
articles,

I'm happy to do that instead. And it just
did it.

But it did. It opened it up and you could
if I would have clicked over

to that tab in Brave. Like I didn't start
this task in Brave.

I started in Cowork and it just opened a
tab and just did its little thing.

Right, it it just opened it. Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's just amazing.

It is amazing. Still s tiny bit scary,

but mostly amazing and amazing enough.

Listen, but the benefits

of this also, whatever. Leak mine your
train might train on it.

You're doing it anyway. It's public it's
like all this stuff is published.

yeah. Yeah.

Like I don't whatever.

I do w do you wish that ~ Anthropic would
make a browser itself?

No, because the the Claude extension is
just so good.

I I so I ordered the other thing Claude
saved the day.

The cloud extension is very good.

I ordered so we have a barista pro,

one of the Brevo things, and a rock went
through the grinder and it didn't

it so it's so it still grinds.

Yeah.

That's not an uncommon thing when you're
buying like beans.

They're there are things 'cause when they
sift them out,

like you could have a rock that's roughly
the same weight or the same size.

And anyway, and this has happened twice
now,

but the f the second time it it will no
longer eject

Grounds, it'll grind them if they just
accumulate in the grinder.

Yeah, yeah.

So so I ordered the replacement parts from
like one of those websites where

you can do that. And if they're back
ordered and they just never shipped.

And so I opened my order status in Brave,

and they're also back ordered,

and I just opened the little Claud thing
and I say,

Hey, here's the deal. This stuff is never
shipped.

Could you just find it for me?

And if you find it, will you just tell me
where?

Yeah, yeah.

So I can buy. I didn't tell it to buy it
for me.

I don't know if it would have done that or
not,

but I was like, Can you just find this for
me?

And it just said, Here's where you can get
this one,

it's in stock, it'll ship and be here by
this day.

Here's where you can get this one,

you c it'll be in stock and you can ship
it by this day.

Yeah.

And I just did it.

That's the thing. That's the and I had to
buy something for my fridge,

like the ice tray or whatever,

like the ice maker. I say he I take a
picture of the mo like the sticker inside
with

the model. I say I need I need a
replacement.

Some just find it just finds it.

Yep. Yep.

It finds it. Listen, we're we're in a it's
a fun time.

Scary a little bit scary sometimes,

but it's a fun time. And we'll see what
Apple does with all this next week.

All right.

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