[whimsicalism]

yeah i’ve never understood the outsized optimism for apple’s ai strategy, especially on hn.

they’re a little bit less of a nobody than they used to be, but they’re basically a nobody when it comes to frontier research/scaling. and the best model matters way more than on-device which can always just be distilled later and find some random startup/chipco to do inference

[msabalau]

Theory: Apple's lifestyle branding is quite important to the identity of many in the community here. I mean, look at the buy-in at launch for Apple Vision Pro by so many people on HN--it made actual Apple communities and publications look like jaded skeptics.

[dagmx]

Oh please, this is the classic “everyone who chooses differently than myself is <superficial/dumb/misinformed>” argument that a lot of people use when it comes to tech nerd identity politics.

Is it really that hard to imagine people have different viewpoints, and decisions than yourself without being painted as vapid, airheads?

[whimsicalism]

I work in this industry, been working professionally on transformers since 2018.

The level of optimism for Apple AI capabilities on here is wrong. I can imagine people having wrong viewpoints, but it is wrong.