bentocorp (u/bentocorp)

bentocorp commented on Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games macrumors.com/2025/08/21/... · Posted by u/greenburger

bentocorp · 3 days ago

I recently wrote about how Apple now has the most hostile developer ecosystem of any major platform:

https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/apple-development/

Good to see VCs and Y Combinator now supporting and pushing for change.

bentocorp commented on Tim Cook rallying Apple employees around AI efforts bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/andrew_lastmile

lapcat · 22 days ago

Serious question: Did Apple employees need rallying?

Also, it sounds like Cook and Federighi just repeated talking points the public has already heard, so I'm not sure what the point of this was.

If there are any current Apple employees here, maybe they can weigh in.

bentocorp · 22 days ago

From the reports from Bloomberg etc, yes, it does sound like some Apple AI employees may need rallying.

Though it sounds like what they actually got was fairly in-substantive statements without a clearly articulated AI strategy.

Doesn't mean that Apple doesn't have a promising AI strategy though, if so, it wasn't communicated in this Pep Talk: so what was the point?

Perhaps to look like they are doing something? Are empty words better than no words at all?

bentocorp commented on How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin arclight.run/how-i-fixed-... · Posted by u/arclight_

maccard · a month ago

Do you mean KB or do you have a 1GB website??

bentocorp · a month ago

It is a 991MB website, before optimisations.

The large majority of this comes from large header images for the Insights post content: https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/

These are png images that are relatively large in size until optimisation creates smaller, multiple image set versions.

I wouldn't say that this is an unusually large site. Any site with a medium amount of content would likely grow to such a size.

bentocorp commented on How I fixed my blog's performance issues by writing a new Jekyll plugin arclight.run/how-i-fixed-... · Posted by u/arclight_

bentocorp · a month ago

I use Jekyll for my company website [1] and managed to get a lot of speed optimisations simply by using a post-processing tool on the statically generated output.

The tool I use is Jampack and I'd highly recommend it: https://jampack.divriots.com

For my product website, it reduced the overall size by 590MB or approximately 59% in size, along with changing the HTML/CSS to make the optimisations that this article notes.

[1] https://www.magiclasso.co/

bentocorp commented on Apple CEO Tim Cook Should Be Replaced, Research Firm Says macrumors.com/2025/07/14/... · Posted by u/bentocorp

SlowTao · a month ago

Note that this entirely based on share price. While I am but an armchair "expert" a lot of the technology businesses that they are comparing too feel inflated due to AI buzz. This is not to put down AI or what they are doing but the sense of 'irrational exuberance' might be at play.

Now if this was based on the quality of Cooks ability to lead Apple, I would simply say they haven't had a huge hit since Apple Watch some 10 years ago. Cruising nicely in terms of sales and incremental improvements but nothing that has others desperately chasing them.

bentocorp · a month ago

Yes it may be entirely based upon AI buzz, but there should be no reason that Apple also couldn't have inflated stock due to AI buzz.

For example, I have questioned why Nvidia has been able to be the unchallenged leader in AI graphics cards.

With Apple's silicon knowledge, access to leading edge TSMC fabs and volume purchasing power (due to selling millions of devices) – Apple could and perhaps should be selling unique processors to AI companies, and also using them themselves – taking a huge amount of revenue and mindshare from Nvidia.