PJ Vogt

Because ampersands mean one thing in human English and another thing in code, engineers usually indicate to the computer when an ampersand should be ignored.

Because ampersands mean one thing in human English and another thing in code, engineers usually indicate to the computer when an ampersand should be ignored.

Because ampersands mean one thing in human English and another thing in code, engineers usually indicate to the computer when an ampersand should be ignored.

This ampersand may have been unescaped. One of the most jaw-dropping scandals of 2025. But to understand why that unescaped ampersand could have fully crashed the audio message, that required further testing. Alex offered to try to get inside the iPhone's mind.

This ampersand may have been unescaped. One of the most jaw-dropping scandals of 2025. But to understand why that unescaped ampersand could have fully crashed the audio message, that required further testing. Alex offered to try to get inside the iPhone's mind.

This ampersand may have been unescaped. One of the most jaw-dropping scandals of 2025. But to understand why that unescaped ampersand could have fully crashed the audio message, that required further testing. Alex offered to try to get inside the iPhone's mind.

And when you say a test phone, it's just like an iPhone that you're purely using for this test.

And when you say a test phone, it's just like an iPhone that you're purely using for this test.

And when you say a test phone, it's just like an iPhone that you're purely using for this test.

We were screen-sharing, so I could see the software. On the top of the window was a spiky graph representing activity on the iPhone, almost like a heart rate. Beneath, illegible to me, the corresponding log entries for each action the phone had taken, the computer's notes on its own internal workings. Normally, these log entries are quickly deleted, but Alex's setup would capture them.

We were screen-sharing, so I could see the software. On the top of the window was a spiky graph representing activity on the iPhone, almost like a heart rate. Beneath, illegible to me, the corresponding log entries for each action the phone had taken, the computer's notes on its own internal workings. Normally, these log entries are quickly deleted, but Alex's setup would capture them.

We were screen-sharing, so I could see the software. On the top of the window was a spiky graph representing activity on the iPhone, almost like a heart rate. Beneath, illegible to me, the corresponding log entries for each action the phone had taken, the computer's notes on its own internal workings. Normally, these log entries are quickly deleted, but Alex's setup would capture them.

So we're going to make the problem happen and then we're going to like x-ray into the mind of the iPhone to understand what is going on behind the scenes.

So we're going to make the problem happen and then we're going to like x-ray into the mind of the iPhone to understand what is going on behind the scenes.

So we're going to make the problem happen and then we're going to like x-ray into the mind of the iPhone to understand what is going on behind the scenes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. So you've recorded the message. You're going to try to send it. At the moment that Alex had recorded his voice note, I could see the log entries cascading down the screen. Any action the iPhone took required marshaling so many of these little tasks.

Okay. So you've recorded the message. You're going to try to send it. At the moment that Alex had recorded his voice note, I could see the log entries cascading down the screen. Any action the iPhone took required marshaling so many of these little tasks.