EffortlessSteven - Executive Strategy and Product Design Insights
Strategy
Assisted, Native, Industrialized
Developers moved from assembly to FORTRAN and never went back. The same thing is happening to the act of writing code itself. Four modes of AI development—suggestions, assisted, native, industrialized—each a step change that only reverses when the platform breaks underneath you.
Analysis: How even Huawei's use of AOSP may be in jeopardy with the US-China trade war
The common understanding is that since AOSP is open source, Huawei cannot be blocked from using it. I am here to tell you that, unfortunately, is not true.
Excessive Lag Time Between Device Announcement and Release is Killing Excitement
Too much hype can be problematic, but so can a lack of it. We take a look at how lag time between reveal and release destroys public public interest.
Product
A Note on Google Assistant's Fluidity and Speech Recognition
I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Google Now's voice commands (or rather Google Assistant as it is now called). I love the idea of what it will be able to do one day, and I love what it can do when it works. If it works. And therein lies the hate. That
Facebook Announces Messenger Lite For Older Devices and Emerging Markets
Facebook just announced Facebook Messenger Lite, a new low-resource version of Facebook Messenger (much to the disdain of the developers of Lite Messenger for Facebook), joining Facebook Lite in their portfolio. Facebook Messenger Lite is a cut down version of Facebook Messenger, weighing in at under 10 MB. It is designed to be fast to
How Allo and Duo Want to Complicate Messaging by Fracturing the Market
Allo and Duo introduce more messaging applications to contact your friends through. Do we need more fracturing, and are its features worth the trouble?
Systems
Flutter 1.5 Bridges the Gap, Adding Support for Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Google announces Flutter 1.5 at I/O 2019, expanding its cross-platform UI toolkit to support web, embedded systems, and desktop applications beyond mobile.
Project Treble Brings Extended Linux Kernel Security Support to Combat Fragmentation
One of the major issues for Android over the years has been device fragmentation. The Android version and Linux kernel version a device are on can have a massive impact on the device's security and usability, and Google is making a concerted effort to improve Android's update lifecycle with Project Treble.
Android Jetpack Rockets Forward With Cameras and Biometrics
Google announces new Android Jetpack libraries at I/O 2019, including CameraX for simplified camera development and Biometrics Prompt for easy biometric authentication.
Infrastructure
Only perl Can Parse Perl (and Rust)
600,000 lines of Rust, verified through layered adversarial testing. Proved by Perl.
Runbook
AI agents run faster than you can watch them. The bottleneck is DevLT: minutes of developer attention per trusted change. Runbook turns the MX Creative Console into a physical instrument that optimizes for DevLT.
xchecker: Spec Pipeline for LLMs
Keep your code monster under control with xchecker: a Frankenstein spec harness that stitches Rust safety to LLM creativity in an auditable flow.