My coworkers like to complain that searching for anything they're working on leads them to either old blog posts written by me, or (if they're currently working on MacOS issues) posts by Quinn. It's funny because it's entirely my experience as well. Apple's attitude towards secrecy means that a huge amount of knowledge is simply never shared, and we're left with Quinn as an incredibly rare portal of knowledge between the inside of Apple and the rest of the world. Quinn, you've apparently seen some shit. Thank you for sharing it with us. I've worked with at least three teams who could never have deployed what we did without you.
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 kinder (or more merciful).
I have no thoughts on Apple Computer's direction. After three decades computing on Macintoshes, linux is my new dailydriver.
This kind of institutional knowledge is becoming increasingly valuable. Documentation tells you what's supposed to happen; engineers like Quinn explain why it doesn't.
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One can hope. Hopefully our new Overlords will be kinder (or more merciful).
I have no thoughts on Apple Computer's direction. After three decades computing on Macintoshes, linux is my new dailydriver.