We come up with some pretty fantastic titles for Software Defined Talk. And you should see the five to ten other possible ones we note down each episode.
One of the best ones is truncated in the screenshot: “You can’t spell Clippy without CLI.”
How to use Tahoe's new Use Model shortcut to summarize articles
The new Use Model shortcut in Apple Shortcuts opens up a lot of possibilities. For example, I like to summarize a lot of pages. Sometimes, ChatGPT can’t get the text for those pages, or I don’t trust the text it retrieves. There’s a shortcut that will retrieve the cleaned up text of a page (as markdown). So, you can get that markdown, and with the new Use Model shortcut, you can summarize it and then send the markdown summary to Drafts.
All of the nerd content I've made this fiscal year, so far
A collection of work-related content produced between November 2024 and July 2025 pertains to technology discussions, particularly focusing on AI, platform engineering, and private cloud solutions.
Export markdown from Apple Notes, even in bulk...almost works.
In macOS Tahoe, you can finally export Apple Notes in markdown. This is great, and even exports images and handwriting from the Apple Pencil. You can also bulk export, which is great! Sadly, bulk exporting images and handwriting doesn’t work. It saves the images and handwriting in a file called Attachements, but then in the actual note markdown, all references to images are to a file called FallbackImage.png. Also, it exports an sqlite database.
How To Build Agentic AI That Ships - The New Stack - “Ninety-five percent of AI initiatives should be expected to fail as long as we ignore these pitfalls: Models are generic. Enterprises are unique. Ideal use cases aren’t flashy. Coordination across teams is hard.” // Lots of other good executive think too, especially being blind to how complex the overall system is w/r/t dependencies. // Also notable is that, technology aside, these are all the concerns of “digital transformation."
Anthropic lets Claude remember previous interactions to streamline work - Including, and using, past chats in your current chat. Always a great, helpful feature.
macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica review - Check out the extended overview of the new Spotlight features/changes if you’re into launchers.
Most Work is Translation - by Aparna Chennapragada - ACD - This is a great metaphor: ”To me, LLMs have the potential to be the Babel fish of work, the little creature from Hitchhiker’s Guide that instantly translates whatever goes into your ear. Except here, it’s not speech alone. It’s papers into briefs, meetings into memos, data into charts, ideas into roadmaps etc.” // So much of knowledge work figuring out what the fuck people are saying and what you should do. And, on the other end, figuring out how tell people that. Using GenAI to de-BS business talk, and hopefully generate more actionable (hah!) talk would be great.
ChatGPT uses, a survey
OpenAI’s study indicates that users primarily utilize ChatGPT as an advisory tool to enhance decision-making and productivity in knowledge-intensive jobs.