Most apps have terrible accessibility labels because developer don't bother, which breaks every screen reader pipeline downstream. The Voice Control "say what you see" feature routes around that by letting users describe a button in plain language. That's a real fix for a problem caused by humans being lazy about ally.
We should first deolonize america. Move all wdite men to nevada desert and leave them there, until thei reduce their emissions and abuse! How far you have to be to even suggest colonisation!!!
With regard to souls its intelligences vs animals rather than human vs alien intelligences. I doubt there will be a definitive position in AGI until we known what a true AI is like.
Honestly as a blind person and blind developer myself, most of these features get a shrug at best.
For one, there's already a bunch of third-party apps that do most if not all of this (Seeing AI, Envision AI, BeMyEyes, Aira, etc.). So at best, this does what all those apps are doing but faster and on-device, which may or may not mean it is also more inaccurate, we'll have to see.
In the meantime, Mac OS's screen reader, VoiceOver, has been left to essentially exist in maintenance mode for years, where users have had to build, arguably impressive, third-party solutions to add features to the thing that comparable screen readers on Windows have had for a really long time.
Through that lens, this all looks a bit performative to me, but again, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.
The one thing I'm mildly excited to see is the improvement to Voice Control, as guessing what the programmatic name of a button is or having to constantly use a numbers grid to target elements doesn't sound fun.
To respond to what I see in some of the comments:
- On speech rate: It does take quite a bit of practice to crank up the speech rate and there's a degree of retraining you need to do when you switch voices. A lot of more "human" sounding voices are harder to follow at super high speeds which is why a lot of people prefer more robotic but consistent speech and generally aren't convinced by AI-powered TTS yet; they often fall apart if you raise the speech rate past a certain point.
- Re: actually waiting for the target audience's verdict: This is so important. I see more and more companies, individuals etc. talk about accessibility, build accessibility solutions and evangelize AI for accessibility without EVER talking to the people they claim to help.
This will almost certainly mean mistakes will be made, up to and including doing more harm than good.
If you want to do accessibility right, that includes AI products of any kind, hire people with lived experience or you'll get the equivalent of machine-translated text, hackerproof security in one click or an AI-powered coffee bar that orders thousands of rubber gloves.
Coincidental note: I have time for new projects right now :P
> Stop listening to the Luddites and eco-nihilists.
Stop telling me to stop beating my wife, I'm not even married. You don't know what Luddites are, and I don't know what eco-nihilists are.
> we continue to outlaw development
Again, I have no idea what this is even referring to. I'm sure you mean something with that, but expressed in such a hyperbolic, all-or-nothing way I just don't know what to do with it, sorry.
Everything makes sense when you see it as an expression of hierarchy. Tan is an anti-liberal. He does not believe everybody should have the same rights. So of course "free speech" means different protections for him and his buddies.
Good question, my usual use case is using claude, hit limits, run `handoff claude codex` then handoff generates a md file from the most recent session that codex uses to continue on.
But i have built a way to provide a specific session id to get context from. It then uses the session id that is printed when you end the session. For example, codex will print something like run `codex --resume <uuid>` to continue this session. That uuid can be provided and handoff will build a context handoff from that session specifically.
So if multiple agents are running you can swap the provider/harness by using that session id.
Long term goals would be to get this working with locally hosted open source models (right now only works with claude and codex) then I can use the SOTA models until limits are hit and continue on with the "free" models.
it's funny because sometimes i daydream about just 'Leaving Society' and living on a farm, as i imagine many do who have no idea what that kind of life entails. my father grew up on a farm too and he very intentionally fled to the comfort of the suburbs.
i do think there is a weird diaspora that comes from being 'technically in contact' with large swaths of people (say, your 150 person company) but physically in contact with very few, vs. being in obvious isolation (aka on a farm with just your family + known hired hand around.)
I tested it yesterday. It is pretty bad. Just like with Composer 2, it's fast, but quality is nowhere near what Cursor claims with their benchmarks. It is not even at Opus 4.5 level.
I gave it a mix of refactoring tasks and new feature tasks. For each one, I had it write a plan, then I had Codex review it. Codex found major issues with every plan: patterns that don't match the rest of the code base, hallucinated variable/function names, and even outright bugs in the way the plan was written. I fed the feedback to Composer 2. After it made the changes and implemented the revised plan, I had Codex and Opus 4.7 do code reviews, and once again both of them found major bugs.
Overall it was a very frustrating experience. I feel like I wasted a whole day. Which is sad, as I have been looking for an excuse to come back to Cursor. But as things stand, Codex + CC combo cannot be beat, not just in terms of price but also quality.
The splat of the studio has the perfect amount of detail. It looks like you're streaming from the camera direct to the computer usually? How do you check the progress / quality while capturing? Seeing the (great) results makes me more curious about the process of creating now.
There’s an enormous difference between millionaires and billionaires, and any piece that mentions them in the same context should automatically be disqualified as pro-hyperwealth propaganda. A billionaire could give up 5% or 10% or 90% of their wealth and see zero material difference in any aspect of their life - they’d still be unimaginably wealthy by any standard. It’s just keeping score at that stage.
The people leaving California because of the proposed billionaires’ tax - which will never happen btw - are selfish whiny crybabies who should be ostracized from public life. Good riddance to them.
Senior people get away with it because they understand the impact of their changes since they are intimately familiar with all the systems. So they know that their crappy shortcut doesn't break anything.
A junior employee doesn't have that knowledge, so they are expected the follow rules to ensure that they don't inadvertently break something.
Most people actually just prefer convenience with web apps you just instantly go to a domain and can check it out also secure and sandboxed by default since I don't have to worry what they are doing in other parts of my system which is a big worry with current supply chain attacks and what not.
Their "PWA" marketing holds them back in addition to financial incentives of Apple and Google. Most people aren't familiar with term "PWA" also why is "installing" a feature who wants to manage these things through their OS which a lot of normies already find confusing. People want plug and play the whole benefit of pwa (seperate window etc) could basically be exposed as per origin setting inside the browser itself and if user want they can pin it to their desktop. Since in my own testing there isn't much difference it terms of API's exposed only lack thereof like no proper user controlled storage retention settings for apis like OPFS and also lack of syncing directly to a user specified folder across all browsers. If they improve these files workflows you will see a lot more robust web apps.
I used to run in Asics Nimbus and currently just wear them all day. Switched to these bright red Novablast 5s for running and they are noticeably better. I do a mix of Norwegian 4x4 Hiit or a steady fast jog a few times a week.
79 days ago, you commented this in response to the killing of the Ayatollah:
“Good riddance”
So I think it’s pretty clear where you stand on this issue. Looks like your little skirmish has gotten out of control out there. It’s making the Trump admin and Israel look very weak and stupid.
