Durability is one of the important parameters that OEMs are focusing on today, as it has a multidimensional impact on consumers and aligns with environmental responsibilities, while increasing device longevity and reliability. During Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025, the company gave a select group of participants, including those from Counterpoint, a glimpse into how it builds products to last. We visited one of the 200 labs that Apple operates to conduct rigorous testing of its hardware before it reaches consumers.
Apple quietly dropped a new AI model on Hugging Face with an interesting twist. Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once.
The result is faster code generation, at a performance that rivals top open-source coding models.
I think everyone knows what an “Easter egg” is with regard to software. It was fun to learn about or share an Easter egg that you learned about with other Macintosh fans. Working within Apple was no exception. I mean the engineers that had created the Easter eggs were now in the same building I was in. From time to time someone might pull up a new easter egg that I was not aware of.
The color pickers I had written seemed like a place I could sneak in an Easter egg of my own.
Perhaps you are reading this and thinking, “Ahhh, this is when he almost gets fired.” And you would be correct.
The problem I have with knowing how to do just enough programming is that whenever I get frustrated with any software, my first thought wasn't how to workaround the shortcomings, but to figure out how much free time I still have left in order to write some un-scaleable and un-maintainable bundle of scripts to replace that software.
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