Matisyahu's Blog

Work is going well and I noticed that macOS 26.4 beta 3 has been made available (link) which makes me wonder whether the delay could have been due to product model information being in the build – Apple always wanting to ‘make a splash’ when they launch products. It’ll be interesting to see how quickly we’ll get to see the 26.4 release and what will be in store for 26.5 – many rumours being around the refinement to Liquid Glass and any bigger changes being pushed off for version 27 with the one in charge of the user interface team being a veteran of Apple going back decades so hopefully that is a sign that we’ll see some sanity return in the form of usability over making the interface pretty.

On my 1/2 hour break I finally got some washing done and put it out on the clothesline to take advantage of the wonderful sunny day at the moment. It looks like for the rest of the week it’ll be fine and sunny however on Sunday it appears that there will be some rain later on night. I’ve paid all my bills for the week and I’m all good for groceries at least for the next few weeks as I work through what I have in my freezer – work through what I have and then maybe in around 6 weeks I’ll head down to the supermarket for a big stocking up.

I was watching a few videos talking about Microsoft ramming AI into everything and over on YCombinator Hacker News forum there was a post by someone talking about how he had a chat with a Microsoft manager who said their main focus is B2B and dealing with enterprise customers. Sounds nice in theory but here is the problem, even their business customers aren’t interested in their AI slop so who are they ultimately trying to please other than attempting to justify to their shareholders that the billions burnt on the pile of AI hype.

For those wanting the numbers, 3.3% of Microsoft’s commercial users pay for Copilot Premium – and what is Microsoft’s answer to this? oh, we need more slop, more AI because maybe if we overwhelm the customer base with AI slop that they’ll see the wisdom of centering their whole business on a technology that has a failure rate that is worse than if you employed a contractor to do the exact same job – as a recent study showed.

Corporations are desperate to improve productivity so they can pad their bottom line and rather than investing in actual proven technology they throw money into technology that is proven to be a colossal failure. I worked in a bank that was using Windows XP right up until 2016, the core banking system was so ancient that you had to put manual requests for statements to be generated for customers to then get those manually created by someone in another department rather than it being an automated service done by the system itself like other banks do. I don’t know about you but the money would be better spent migrating to a modern core banking system than throwing money at AI.

This is what happens when you have c-suite executives running companies who are entirely clueless about the business they’re meant to be managing. These are the same executives who spend millions on getting outside consultancy firms to come in, consultants who have no idea what they’re talking about because they’ve never worked in that industry in their life but people have bestowed upon them the mantle of authority because they went to one of the overpriced ivy league universities. What is the end result? businesses who get sucked into the next BS hype train because their executive echo chamber have convinced themselves that they’re on the right track.