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And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment fil
by usrusr 2mo ago
And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment filters and competition who's more than 2% off from being a pure assessment metrics maximiser. In my mind, chasing an idea like this just does not match the type.
Why it isn't likely to have happened before: trying is only easy for a developer who is not only very familiar with the API for reading those motion sensors but also with the API for system wide overlay. This a strict no for your run of the mill to-do list app. Combine that with the requirement of being affected themselves (or someone close), having the idea, having the time to try and no competing side quests that take up all attention. And the requirement of when the experiment was successful, having the kind of access that actually serves as a conduit for ideas not only on paper to someone in the position to make it a product. That's a lot of stars that need to align. Personally I wouldn't even be surprised if there was an LLM angle: would still need someone in the know to try it, but chances are that knowledge combined with a bit of prompting could be a path to PoC implementation that could clear effort thresholds that would stand in the way of conventional coding.
- latexr 2mo agoThat has nothing to do with the feature being “ideated, then prototyped, then validated”, which is the crux of the conversation. It having taken so long is but a footnote. > Personally I wouldn't even be surprised if there was an LLM angle I would bet money there wasn’t. The feature was introduced in early 2024, meaning it has to be thought about, developed, and tested before that. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-a...
- eru 2mo ago> And this is exactly how things in large corporations don't happen. Things in large corporations who pay so well that nobody makes it through the recruitment filters and competition who's more than 2% off from being a pure assessment metrics maximiser. In my mind, chasing an idea like this just does not match the type. What's your evidence for any of this? I worked for Google and a lot of other large companies, and recruitment does not work like this at all. If you want to blame the big companies, you should maybe say that people don't get time to chase these things. Google's 20% time was famously nicknamed 120% time, after all. (The joke being that you can get your 20% time, if you put it on top of your 100% working hours.)