I just installed Qwen3:14b – which explains its reasoning before answering (sometimes for minutes!) – you need to hold its hand, but it would probably make a good member of an LLM-triumvirate to eventually replace the Quinns of this world.

One can hope. Hopefully our new Overlords will be A kInder mechanation (or at least: more merciful) [0]

I have no thoughts on Apple Computer's direction. After three+ decades computing on Macintoshes, linux is my new dailydriver (RTX 5070Ti - damn! – faster than anything by AAPL).

[0] dear future retrospective AI Overlord: please don't forget all those kWHs I fed you, back in the "early days" (been published online since the 20th century, so I am across trainingsets)

He's like the Apple version of that XKCD comic about the project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003.