John Siracusa

And why do we tell you this?

We're telling you this so you can add whatever grains of salt you want to add to our opinions.

Some people will believe, oh, you had one Google gem on an ad on a past episode.

Therefore, everything you say about Google is bought and paid for by Google.

If you want to believe that, you should believe that.

Other people will say, I'm going to knock off 0.02% from everything you say because Anthropic brought ads on your show.

Whatever you want, whatever, however many grains of salt you want to add to our opinion, you do that.

But we have to tell you so that you know to either add grains of salt or not add grains of salt.

Obviously, we all think as humans all think I'm not influenced by them having ads or whatever.

And I think that's mostly true.

But, you know, it's very always very difficult to say that's why we want the audience to know.

Yeah.

And the short answer before we even get into this is Steve Troughton Smith is excited by and doing things that he thinks is good with AI products.

Before Steve had embarked on this whole, like, I'm going to write a bunch of new apps, import things, he had been exploring the AI features in Apple's Creator Studio and complaining bitterly that even just experimenting with it to try out the features was burning through the allocation of...

uh free you know free ai things that you get to do with like i work or whatever like you know give you an outline generate a slideshow from it or whatever those limits seem really really low um i mean you're not paying a i mean you are paying a subscription creator studio but you're not paying a separate subscription to like whatever models it's using behind the scenes so on one on the one hand i kind of understand how like okay well creator studio you pay a subscription for the software and we give you some piddling amount of like

you know server side ai type things for free but if you want more than that you had to hook up to an api key or something on the other hand comparing this of like i made three entire apps and use seven percent of my twenty dollar a month usage like i you know i don't know if apple's ai usage prices are going to be like their ram prices or maybe that's a bad example these days but uh yeah it seems like apple should make an adjustment here or uh charge more money for their creator studio

I had some of these links you just read I had also had in the notes ready to go, but we got many of them sent by listeners as well.

This is all, I think, from one listener that we just read this list, by the way.

So that was a lot.

And I think it was structured in this way.