that's fair though I'd venture that Google and Apple are fundamentally different with respect to ads. Hence chrome is much more aggressive with respect to blocking the blockers. I don't see the current moment as a policy so much as a lack of one. But we'll see. It seems like every week there's a new ad free podcast app.

and regarding "change the terms", I think this is a classic case where the tech is ahead of the policy, and that the latter will eventually catch up.

I was thinking more about off device interference like muse, but yeah even for on device it could be enforced tthrough the app store review process. Again nothing to stop you from vibing your own thing up, I just expect that most people won't. Or if the tech becomes so good that you don't even realize you're vibing it up, that the platform driving it will have the same terms built in.

I still think you're underestimating the pressure that will fall on platforms to create and enforce TOS that forbids this stuff. Average people _might_ vibe up their own apps, but I suspect that they won't self-host the LLMs.

Setting this aside, I agree with most of the rest of the observations on discovery and overall robot utility.

Linux, almost-viable for desktop since 1996 🤣

transcript + cheap flash-tier models will get you above 0.9 word-level F1 on spoken ad reads, which is pretty good. You don't need to look at the waveform.

It's also probably safe to expect enshittification to set in, eg "I saw that Adam sent you a clip from Better Offline. Would you like to subscribe in Spotify?"

fantastic. I'd expect there eventually to be some pressure on the harness-runners (eg fb) to implement acceptable use policies. We may just be in a transition moment. But I also wonder if regular people (ie not us) will even bother to do extra work to skip ads. I want to say that @James Cridland has reported on people not even bothering to hit the skip button.

Guaranteed AdLoad.

Happy Birthday Sam!!!