Every time I use the MacBook Neo, I feel like I’m getting away with something. If you have read my previous Overmorrow essays or follow me on Mastodon, you probably know that I am a frequent and unapologetic Windows user, and a Linux dabbler, and a, uh, Chromebook acknowledger.
Carl Brown, of The Internet of Bugs, appeared on Ed Zitron’s podcast to discuss the failings of vibe coding, but even he admitted he found LLMs useful for some tasks, because—among other reasons—the AI can type faster than you can. Upon hearing that, I was struck by
The least intelligent artificial intelligence recently clarified my feelings about where I can accept AI. Or, at least, where I understand its appeal. Shortly after getting my AirPods, I was doing the dishes and listening to a podcast, which paused for Siri to announce that my wife “sent a photo:
The Lenovo Yoga Book 9i is unhinged. It's a computer with the form factor of a laptop, but with a second screen where the keyboard, palm rest, and trackpad would normally go. When used in a laptop configuration, a Bluetooth keyboard can magnetically attach to the lower touchscreen
Many of my connections on Mastodon celebrated their third anniversary on the service this month, having joined in the great migration from X, the Everything App™ (née Twitter) in November 2022. I had joined (and left) Mastodon a few years before, but came back in October of 2022—the month
What if you didn’t have to computer as much? This is the basic pitch for “agentic” artificial intelligence—AI products that purport to go beyond chatbots, to autonomously “go do stuff” on behalf of the user. Microsoft has been touting “agentic” capabilities coming to Windows, meaning that large language
When I was 40, I went back to school to finish my degree. I graduated two years later, in 2021—20 years late and 1000% over budget. My degree was in project management. However bad I was at finishing college, I was pretty good at being in it. So, when
“Nobody wants to strap a computer to their face.” That’s what I remember from when the Apple Vision Pro was announced. I heard it on podcasts, in conversation with my gadget-obsessed but practical colleagues in IT, in Mastodon posts. There were other gripes, of course. It started at $3,
You HAVE TO send that email today. Yeah, that one. The one you put off. The one you don’t want to think about. But you know, nobody is looking. You could just use ChatGPT. Or—hear me out—you could suck it up, write the email yourself, and light