A random smattering of nouns to start your week.

New Idea: Can AI rewrite its own device code?

Though it still hasn’t been two years since the launch of Chat GPT, AI is pretty much everywhere all at once. Some people are excited about it. Some seem to be terrified.

As fun as musing about the end of humanity, reaching the singularity, and the inevitable heat-death of our universe is, I’ve been thinking recently about where my apps are on my iPhone.

In the new iOS update, Apple has finally decided to let users put their apps wherever they want. I’m not going to get into an Android vs Apple argument here, but Apple was just a tad bit behind on this one.

The thing is, though this announcement came with plenty of memes, jabs from the internet and apple fan-boy celebrations, it had to have been an incredibly simple update to actually make.

In fact I can almost guarantee that the code to do this has been written for years and not pushed out for some unrelated reason (ie brand, timing, marketing, Steve’s dying wishes, etc).

Code that could have easily been written by AI.

If you havn’t seen the videos of AI writing code, they are pretty impressive, and I have to imagine that, given the access, AI could write some pretty functional code to support features like the above on their own native devices.

In fact, I’ll go on record by predicting that the future of device customization is actually far beyond what the manufacturer dreams up, but instead in the on-board AI itself.

In a few years, we might be delivered a beautiful iPhone 25 with a basic OS and a very advanced AI.

As part of the setup, you’ll ask your phone for any changes or customizations, and with access to its own operating system code, the phone will be able to implement features that don’t exist on anyone else’s device.

Imagine being able to say “Hey Siri, make it so the apps sink to the bottom of the screen instead of float to the top.” and Siri would write and install custom code on your unique device to allow this to happen.

Will brands let this happen? Apple certainly won’t. Android, maybe.

New Quote: Ryan Holiday

New Old Book: Leaders Eat Last

Simon Sinek has written three major books. Leaders Eat Last is the only one not listed under “notable works” on his Wikipedia. Rude.

Even though it is now 10 years old, Leaders Eat Last is just as relevant today as it was in 2014.

I would highly recommend giving all of his books a read, but this one is particularly pertinent as we move toward a presidential election.

Check it out ⤵️

New Pizza

Okay it’s not new.

It came out in 2022.

And its “new york” style pizza from a company in Kentucky.

But I just tried it and its so much better than normal Papa Johns.

Next time you’re ordering some junk pizza for a movie night with the kids, do yourself a favor and get a Papa Johns XL New York Style Pizza cooked “well done”.

It’s legitimately pretty good, and if you know me, you know I have strong opinions about pizza.

Also, it’s cheaper for some reason:

If you want to see someone else have an opinion, Rhett and Link did a Domino’s x Papa John’s comparison earlier this year. (NY Style is the first one).

Be good

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