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I've been "using" Apple Intelligence for a couple of weeks now, thanks to the iOS update on the iPhone 15 Pro. Actually "using" is an exaggeration. It simply started showing up AI-abbreviated notifications. Notifications that turned out to be completely useless. Phone notifications have clearly got out of control. Every app wants to send them. They beep and flash and bubble on everything, including phones, desktops and watches. And are super tedious to manage. I remember Android handling them a bit better than iOS, but still far from perfect. It seems to be a good idea to task an AI LLM model to "do something" about the notifications. Figure out the context, figure out the incoming stream of notifications and aggregate / postpone / mute - whatever is needed to make them usable. But clearly the bar is too high for the current state of the art AI systems. This simple cases demonstrates how far from reality the AI hype is. Afterall handling notifications...

Measured by the raw number of steps, my 2024 was definitely below expectations. The February decline was due to the New Zealand trip where the terrain (mostly West Coast) was making it difficult to cover more than 10 kilometers per day (as typically parts of that were hanging with hands on tree branches or crawling below fallen tree logs or crossing rivers). Not complaining, just explaining :) Then out of nowhere I had a knee injury that kept me sitting on a sofa for a couple of weeks. Things started looking good in Autumn, but then I foolishly twisted my left ankle and as it almost healed, I repeated something similar to the right foot. I'm almost ready to restart now, but the result (raw steps) is 1000km less than in 2023. When healthy you rarely think how lucky you are. Only when things go wrong the other perspective opens and you suddenly start appreciating being able to just walk :) Also shows how almost impossible it is to maintain an uninterrupted streak. Still, since start...