Daring Fireball

MG Siegler:
In that light, we can see the dilemma. But there were alsoprobably about a dozen better ways to do this roll-out — ashighlighted by how fast they’re fixing these things — and theyjust missed the mark. While they undoubtedly knew there would besome backlash...

Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux, the OpenAI engineering lead who’s taking the most public credit for this and thus probably deserves the most blame, on Twitter/X:
Evening! We’ve gotten lots of great feedback on the new ChatGPTdesktop app (which we didn’t get totally quite right on the firsttry), and as a result, we’ve made some changes....

Linus Torvalds:
I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an areawhere I’m willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-levelmaintainer.
Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody hasissues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it....

Speaking of BBEdit, version 16 dropped just before WWDC, and adds a slew of nifty improvements, headlined by vastly expanded support for Shortcuts. You can also search for text in images, use the W3C HTML syntax checker, and of all things, vi keyboard...