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Leaked Apple meeting shows how dire the Siri situation really is (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Apple's progress with Siri and artificial intelligence has been slow, and features promised in June remain delayed.
At a Siri team meeting, senior director Robby Walker acknowledged the frustration within the team, describing the delays as "ugly."
Features like Siri understanding personal context and taking action based on a user’s screen are still not ready and may not make it into iOS 19.
Challenges include quality issues that caused these features to malfunction up to a third of the time and conflicts with Apple's marketing division over showcasing incomplete features.
Apple has withdrawn related advertisements and added disclaimers on its website, citing extended development times.
Senior executives, including Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea, are reportedly taking personal accountability for the delays.
Walker emphasized that the team’s work is impressive and that the delayed features will be released once they meet Apple’s standards.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 164 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The whole industry is a shit show right now with the "AI race"

I don't want to be a software developer anymore because it's become a permanent deathmarch toward the next buzzword.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We just had a town hall with our CEO and they came right out and said we need to simultaneously add AI and not add AI to our products, because customers are both excited and nervous about it. Our competitors are putting "AI" everywhere in their marketing, while we're just trucking along making a quality product.

Our software works in a very dangerous environment, where mistakes could cost millions in damage and potentially risk human lives. So the end user just sees "AI" as a liability. But the decision makers as to what product to use are removed from conditions on the ground and respond well to marketing BS.

We actually do use AI with some parts of the product (e.g. curve fitting on past data for better predictions), but we need to be very careful about how we advertise that.

It's dumb. Just pick the product based on what fits your operations best, don't pick based on buzzwords...

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Our software works in a very dangerous environment, where mistakes could cost millions in damage and potentially risk human lives.

I mean attorneys don't seem to have a problem submitting case law that AI hallucinated.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe your boss can develop software all by his or her self now lop.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Better yet, ask the AI to do it.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

An AI age in software development will yield massive returns to anybody who makes it to "senior designer-developer" by the end of this decade, IMHO, if only because the totally fucked up unmantainable code bases made by "automated junior developers" will much more quickly reach end of life (the point were it costs more to try and fix/upgrade them than to rewrite them) and need to replaced (and the way to do that is to reverse engineer the Software Requirements from the existing apps an then build from scratch something new that satisfies those requirements, something which LLMs are entirelly unable to do).