Years ago a worker told me they aren’t actually hooked up to anything, just a camera hooked up to a screen. But that could change at any time without me knowing.

Where are you at when you're trying to get the file location? If the file is open, typically you can right-click the file name in the titlebar of the window to see the hierarchy of folders from / to the file. Clicking any folder in this hierarchy will open that folder in Finder.

Next to the filename in the titlebar of the window, if you hover over it for a second, you'll see an icon show up to the left of it (not sure why they decided to start hiding this)... this is a proxy icon that lets you drag and drop the active file as if you were dragging it from Finder.

> Also, the preview of files is not as smooth as it should be.

Is this thumbnail loading that you're talking about? I have noticed that can feel a little slow on my M1 Pro, at least if he folder hasn't been opened recently. For quick file previews, I've found QuickLook (selecting a file and using Space to open/close a preview) to be extremely fast. I miss it on Windows and Linux... there are clones of it, but I don't find they work as well.

The AI allowed me to sail right past the learning curve, building an app I’ve wanted for years in just a few hours. I haven’t really looked at the code at all. With that said, I feel I’ve already started to hit the wall. The app works, it’s fine… but it’s got weird behaviors the AI doesn’t seem to be able to fix. The animation at the end of the drag and drop is wrong and confusing.. it’s telling me that’s the default animation with no options to change or disable it… I exhausted my AI quota twice on this before giving up. Drag-and-drop feels clunky in general, after quite a bit of prompting to tweak it. I still seemingly have to know how an app should behave and tell it to add all the little quality of life things everyone expects to “just work” on macOS… the AI didn’t assume and add any of it. 25 years as a user on macOS and 20 years in tech is how I see the issues and know what is missing and what to ask for.

If I want the app to actually feel great to use, and be the level of quality I’d expect from others, I can’t keep promoting my way there. It made an MVP, but I feel like that’s as far as it goes. I need to read the human interface guide, learn the frameworks, learn Swift, learn SwiftUI, probably learn some AppKit… if you rely on the AI entirely, your app will only be as good as what the AI can do. Right now, that doesn’t what it can do is an MVP that makes for an impressive tech demo or a personal utility, where you’re ok dealing with the limitations and rough edges.

I did write up my initial request, and tweaked from there. Maybe if I started with a markdown file, describing the full specs, every expected drag and drop action, etc… it would be better. But I keep thinking back to Dave Plumber saying his spec for TMOG was 107 pages long. If I’m writing 107 pages of spec, I might as well just code the app at that point, and learn something along the way.

When people use quotes from fiction, a big part of the value is the recognizability of the book/author.

Apple was a company that allowed fairly normal people to have a luxury experience without the 10x price tag, and they're ruining it. People still make "Apple tax" comments, but when looking at their competitors, they really aren't outlandish, like these shirts are.

I've seen several people in this tread mention CoMaps. I took a quick look, and while I want it like it, I can't help but see significant limitations where it might be nice when it works, but I'd always need a backup. In situations like this, I find the backup always just becomes the go-to.

Though, in my experience, that isn't true with Apple. Even when I tried Apple One, I still saw bugs in the experience that led to ads for things I already subscribed to... particularly in News+ and AppleTV+.

I've been hearing this kind of thing a lot, but if a customer is paying for a luxury product, and part of that luxury is not having ads (or being an ad)... advertising to them because of it breaches the trust, erases the luxury, and alienates that valuable customer.

At some point, customers price themselves out of advertising. We see this in fashion. Designer brands have their consumer level lines with logos all over them, then they usually have a luxury line where those logos go away. With Ralph Lauren, for example, Polo gets you a logo on almost everything[0], while Purple is nearly logo free[1].

[0] https://www.ralphlauren.com/men-clothing-button-down-shirts/...

[1] https://www.ralphlauren.com/men-clothing-button-down-shirts/...

That said, I recently bought a Windows laptop (which was wiped to run Linux day 1). Before I installed Linux I had one task I needed Windows for. To create a local account and not connect it to the internet, I had to lookup a keyboard shortcut to show a terminal, lookup a command to run the setup in a different mode for IT departments, then run through setup again to make my local account. Once in the OS, because I wasn’t on the network, 90% of the start menu was full of placeholder icons that needed the internet to download the actual icon… presumably a bunch of cloud services (ads). Then there were basics, like trackpad performance… it was unusable, I had to get a mouse to move around without pain. Once Linux was installed, the trackpad worked great, maybe even better than macOS, it’s close, just a matter of preference.

Compare that to macOS, which still lets you make a local account without jumping through hoops, runs fine without iCloud, and has all local apps that won’t leave you with a bunch of placeholders. The basic hardware, like the trackpad, also works well out of the box.

macOS and Apple aren’t perfect, but are still miles ahead of Windows, imo.

Linux isn’t perfect either. Initial hardware support was very hit and miss depending on the distro. Things I’d consider basic functionality required plugins that I had to hunt for. Other annoying out-of-the-box defaults required plugins + custom scripts to resolve. All of this can be very frustrating. Most people don’t want to tinker this much.

No system is perfect, it’s just a question of which tradeoffs a person is willing to make.

Novels are made for people, not for AI.

I also don’t know where this payment model comes from. These AI companies have all shown that they can and will use the collective works of humanity to train, while giving nothing back to the writers, artists, scientists, developers, etc who created it all.