by Cody Bromley
2 min read
On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs's obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer.
About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little man it was a yak named Bruce.
by Cody Bromley
4 min read
If you interacted with my last LinkedIn post, I owe you an apology. It was 100% AI slop.
This post isn't, but here's why I did it.
by Cody Bromley
12 min read
In December 2025, Anthropic invited Claude users to sit down with an AI interviewer and share how they use AI, what they hope it could become and what concerns them about where it's headed. Over 80,000 people across 159 countries participated, and Anthropic recently published their findings.
The findings are about what you'd expect. People want AI to do their boring work and they're worried it'll take their interesting work. The things they love most about it are the same things that scare them. Anthropic's term for this is "light and shade," which is a polite way of saying nobody knows if this is going to be good or bad.
This more or less describes how I feel too, and that's pretty relevant because I was one of the 80,508 people interviewed in this study.
More posts can be found in the archive.