the problem is no two houses are a like and you have to navigate, crawl spaces, basements, stairs, tiny utility closets where you can't even see the bolt you are tightening. there is no way this works in real everyday homes.

I’ve had two tract houses built, and I’ve found out that blueprints are mere suggestions on how to build the house. Sub-contractors do what they want. I even had a HVAC sub put chases in the middle of two closets to save money on ductwork; I was only able to get the super to move one since that was rework he had to pay for despite blueprints not being followed.

It's like if you took some of the challenges of waymo and made them even worse. I imagine it'll take a similar amount of time to get there (although waymo still hasn't rolled out anywhere 'unpredictable' e.g. Naples, Istanbul, Mumbai).

Self-driving is a great parallel. Whereas the tricky part of self-driving are the edge cases, maybe 5% of what the car needs to handle. What DIY plumbing I've done tells me is that plumbing is just about nothing but edge cases, with 5% being standard stuff that an LLM might be able to handle.

Many thought Apple should be competing with the frontier labs while they see themselves as competing with Nvidia.

Right now, they're competing with neither.

Sorry about the eggs honey, I had to use the thrusters to get past this cyclist.

I feel like there will be a minimal UI/no screen but it will have 9 far field microphones. 2-3 cameras , an iris scanner, GPS, and lidar. This is because it is a data collection device for use in OpenAI's future models, more than it is a an assistant.

I make a podcast client for iOS that detects and skips ads for you using an on device model. This allows me to sell without a subscription. I am working on v2 which will bring support for video podcasts and YouTube podcasts.

This one hurts. We will miss you Mr. Dvorak! RIP