Rant Mode: WWDC Let-Down, Siri Snoozes & .NET’s Identity Crisis

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Engineer In the Looop

Alec Harrison

87 episodes

6 days ago

Engineer in the Loop is the weekly show for software engineers who ship with models in the mix. Host Alec Harrison chats with practitioners about architecture decisions, failure modes, and the workflows that keep humans firmly “in the loop.” Expect repo round-ups, post-mortems, and listener Q&A—with actionable code examples and zero buzzword fluff!

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Rant Mode: WWDC Let-Down, Siri Snoozes & .NET’s Identity Crisis

Engineer In the Looop

49 minutes 50 seconds

4 months ago

Rant Mode: WWDC Let-Down, Siri Snoozes & .NET’s Identity Crisis

This week Alec Harrison and Brian Gorman skip the rose-tinted dev chat and head straight for some therapeutic tech-venting. Fresh off an under-whelming WWDC, Alec wonders why Apple is flexing 3-D lock-screen clocks instead of, you know, actual Apple Intelligence—while a $3 k Vision Pro still can’t replace his decade-old Mac. Brian fires back with a blistering take on Google Gemini (“the passion of a thousand burning suns”) and explains how C#’s new runapp.cs experiment feels a lot like scrapping the foundation while the house is still standing. 🤦‍♂️

Along the way they swap war stories on:

The Wall Street Journal grilling Craig Federighi & Greg Joswiak about Siri’s perpetual “coming soon” status 📱
EF Core “CLI Hell, Level 6” and how ChatGPT bailed Brian out of phantom configs
Why top-level statements, disappearing .csproj files, and NuGet inline directives might be great for demos—but brutal for real-world onboarding
Alec’s discovery of Azure role-based data actions (spoiler: they’re not roles) and when over-architecting becomes a five-figure bonfire
Building the new Engineer in the Loop site with Astro, zero-JS by default, and an assist from AI

Need a cathartic laugh—or just want to feel seen about the messy state of modern tooling? Hit play and commiserate with two devs who love tech enough to roast it 🔥.

Links promised in-episode

Wall Street Journal interview with Craig Federighi & Greg Joswiak (Apple AI promises vs. reality)
“Announcing .NET runapp.cs” – .NET Blog
Alec’s deep-dive on Azure Storage data actions
Astro Framework – astro.build

00:00 Underwhelmed by Apple WWDC

03:22 AI and Apple's Intelligence

05:43 Frustrations with Voice Assistants

08:25 The Evolution of Windows and Apple

10:49 The Dumbing Down of C#

13:17 C# vs Python: A Language Debate

15:40 The Future of C# Development

18:10 Managing Dependencies in C#

20:32 The Real-World Application of C#

23:00 Onboarding New Developers to C#

26:20 The Structure of Programming: A Necessary Evil

27:33 Adapting to Change: The Frustration of New Tech

28:56 Writing and Learning: The Joy of Creation

31:06 AI in Coding: A Game Changer

33:32 The Frustrations of CLI and Migration Issues

35:59 Enums vs Strings: A Design Debate

38:06 Delivering Value vs Over-Engineering

39:39 Leveraging AI for Web Development

42:16 Upcoming Projects and Conferences

45:19 Understanding Azure Data Attributes