Jony Ive is a great designer, but not a great product designer. He needs a strong product visionary like Jobs behind him, something the Sam Altman is not.
I call it a flop.
This all feels like a charade designed to justify ever-higher valuations. Jony Ive likely gets insanely wealthy, even more than he did at Apple, just for lending his name. OpenAI gets a wave of “free” press, with headlines touting how they’ve brought the world’s greatest designer on board. And by the time it’s clear that none of it led to anything meaningful, a few years have passed, and the company is bigger than ever.
I don't know, most recent pics of Zuckerberg has him wearing a hideous pair of Buddy Holly "smart glasses". That's probably what this thing will end up being. Big tech seems hell bent on making these glasses a thing.
Agree 100% - seems like they made Jony an offer that no one could refuse.
I also feel like Humane would've kept going if they really thought there was something there, and the fact they killed it makes me think they probably explored the idea space didn't find any easy wins.
Is Jony really going to be able to pull a rabbit out of the hat when good founders couldn't find any?
Even the iPod would've flopped without Apple blanketing the world with ads, making it Windows-compatible and setting up deals with record labels to buy music for a buck a pop. I'm not sure what chance Humane would have had even in the best of circumstances, they had no ecosystem or manufacturing advantage and were completely dependent on third parties to provide the "brain" of the interface.
I use LLMs a lot, and call me arrogant, but every time I see a developer saying that LLMs will substitute them, I think they are probably shitty developers.
Because I've never seen a time saver in software development not being used to write even more software than what should be allowed by the time saving itself.
So, yes, it could happen, I foresee a steep road ahead for junior developers, but if history can serve as a guide, LLMs coding will more likely lead to MORE CODE, not LESS CODERS in general.
I think both will happen. I was merely demonstrating that just because an AI can't replace the entirety of your work, doesn't mean it won't make you redundant.
Bingo. This additional throughput could be used to create more polished software. What happens in a free market; would your competitor fall behind or will they try to match your polish?
The years made me realize that too, but there's also plenty of stupid people in upper-classes. And usually, contrary to the first ones, I can't escape having to deal with those.
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