The article cites _five_ internal sources corroborating this -- the second affair must've been an open secret at this point.

Well, there goes the productivity bragging he does about his nonstop work ethic and sheer number of direct reports.

Your move, Apple.

With luck, SWE culture will change towards caring about large-scale rearchitecture (and reward those who care enough to refactor and polish, polish, polish.)

It's all about massaging out those tight spots and untangling knots. A bit like kneading dough, perhaps, or annealing metal.

I don't think this will ever be appreciated or rewarded.

Yeah that's basically craft. Craft and beauty aren't usually rewarded unless it can be used for marketing.

Or perhaps in a more "enlighted society" you get taken to the benchmark/post-training material writing gulag, and suffer the indignities of having to teach AI how not to make your mistakes. Confess your sins to GPT-225 Galaxias for the honor of RAM Altman!

And, hey, Apple has a sweet ~$52bil cash on hand, and has never been as gung-ho about stock buybacks as other companies.

> The combination of all these elements going into the future means that if Apple wants to stay ahead, I believe Apple has no choice but to take memory in house, they have the design and engineering capability in-house, and they have the money because they didn’t burn it on AI models and data centers.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was happening already -- they plan five years ahead, after all, and they've been slowly taking other systems in-house (e.g. baseband/modem) already.

/does the hands up and then pulls apart gesture, purses lips

> Put simply: the inference pie may become so large that both client and datacenter win.

Beyond inference, even local HPC or large in-memory workloads. Steve Jobs dreamed that the NeXT Computer could be used to cure cancer in a dorm room (whatever tha tmeans), and I guess a bunch of Mac Studios chained together wouldn't be bad for a lot of computationally tough biomedical "basic science" applications.

It's fun to think about Claris as the hobby "well, we'll see if it works out I guess, but no worries if not" brand. Perhaps "Claris Vision Pro" would have been less embarrassing for Apple. Hell, if they want to bring their car project back, "Clarismobile" would be hilarious.