[fartfeatures]

This was such a self inflicted own goal. Siri has needed work for years and every year they neglected it. When they first bought Siri it was state of the art and then it just languished. Pulling an Intel and sweating your assets until it is too late is never a good idea.

[xnx]

No amount of prior work would have achieved what anyone can now cobble together from an open weights LLM.

[danhau]

Siri was outdated even before the rise or LLMs.

[azinman2]

Siri has had many, many, many engineers on it for a while.

[wronglebowski]

I don't doubt it, but what were they all doing? The Metaverse had 10k employees on it for multiple years and seemed to almost be a standstill for long periods of time. What do these massive teams do all day?

[Whatarethese]

I wish I could be assigned a project and make no progress in over a decade and still have a job.