Somewhat alarmed that the LLM detritus seems to no longer have a toggle to be disabled in the iOS 27 and macOS betas. I hope, but do not expect, that it will come back in the final releases.

If I want to still be able to set a timer when I'm cooking with my voice, I probably need to accept a bunch of nonconsensual slop ("writing tools") being shoved in my face in every app.

Protesting LLMs by refusing to use any software that includes them feels like attempting to protest the introduction of tetraethyl lead into gasoline by refusing to breathe until everyone stops putting it in their cars. So I am drawing my personal moral lines in such a way that I will probably accept this.

But please don't mistake this for excitement about huffing a bunch of vaporized lead.

@glyph

As someone that maintained manufacturing plants for 30 years, I knew at least a dozen of the best people I worked with that succumbed to lead poisoning. It was total destruction of their lives and families. AI gives me that same dreadful feeling of the future...