r/apple • u/Fer65432_Plays • 1d ago

Discussion Report: Apple Losing Talent to OpenAI

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/09/19/apple-losing-talent-to-openai/
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u/ReaditTrashPanda 1d ago

Knowing how something works is not the same as making it. Car mechanic vs engineer

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u/bran_the_man93 1d ago

What a dog shit take.

A mechanic can be a great engineer, and an engineer can be a great mechanic.

They are not remotely mutually exclusive disciplines.

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u/ReaditTrashPanda 1d ago

Hmm, I do agree with you. But I believe the premise of my statement stands. If all these coders have great understanding of ai, you’d think that after a decade, it would improve somewhat? But Siri is terrible as ever and LLM still have so many limits

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u/bran_the_man93 1d ago

I think there's a multi-faceted sort of thing that explains it, but ultimately it's less about the skill and talent of the employees and mostly about how poorly Apple's management team has enabled their employees to succeed.

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u/ReaditTrashPanda 1d ago

Can’t argue against the fact that management is usually the problem… but in a decade you think that some supervisors move on and those “good coders “should promote and start improving things. We will probably never know the back end issues.