Have they made the existing parts of the app less shit?

Excellent for local models running via OpenCode and helping with UAT on Android. Well done. What else is on your roadmap for this? Will you support Watch/TV/XR? F-Droid might take this.

Oh hell no, never in my life will I let an agent control my phone. Fff— that.

Fair concern, and it's not for everyone. The agent only sees the screen while it's doing a task you gave it, it asks before anything is sent, and it's open source, so you can check exactly what it does. If you'd rather not hand that to an AI, that's a completely reasonable choice.

Token work offloading.
Unethical bingo sentences -- center square.

Let Al have full access to your contacts and the first most likely device to have pictures of your genitals.

Name a single good reason that I should support this

Curious why. Seems people vote against datacenters in their vicinity, against the flood of self-promote by AI agents in the remaining somewhat human corners of the internet, against the flood of dubious vibe-coded projects which for some reason all have the same description that starts with "I built ..."

Everything related to AI gets down voted. Controversial at best.

No.

Why would anyone in the right state of mind allow that shit to control your phone??

Not a privacy invasion, at all. And you are abusing the accessibility features too? I'm proud of you.

It's Lemmy. People see Google or AI and hate on everything related by default. IMO, this is, at least conceptually, a good feature. With the increase in bike riders, bother casual and fitness related, this has the ability to increase safety. I'm surprised Garmin beat Google to the punch on this one. Hopefully it becomes ubiquitous with fitness wearables, so in areas where there aren't clear bike lanes, riders don't have to be concerned about drivers.

(if the cyclists opt in to being shown on Waze)

Please people, read the fucking article

Yeah I mean the solution to that is that these kinds of people probably shouldn't be allowed to drive a multi-ton killing machine. But I know how realistic that solution is.

I've been in a car with people where I've had to point out to them pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles, and other vehicles.

I've been merged into like I wasn't even there on multiple occasions (extremely terrifying on a bicycle).

People are bad at measuring distance while moving at speed. And their situational awareness very often leaves much to be desired. But this (while a novel approach) is a terrible idea.

Because it is apparently way to hard to just look at the road you are driving on.

The idea is to highlight them on the road so they are harder to miss (I assume).

Edit:

Gadgets and Wearables notes that the early code suggests that Waze will be able to leverage Garmin’s LiveTrack location data to show nearby drivers where cyclists are, presumably to help drivers look out for cyclists along their route.

Cool from a safety standpoint. Terrifying from a safety standpoint and a privacy standpoint.

Taking a step back from "the cloud" has really opened my eyes to the wild shit these money-hungry corpos pull on the daily.

Also, a reminder that Waze is owned by Google.

is waze even used by cyclists?

This seems totally fine

i might buy this argument the fisrt generation this happened but this has been goong on for since at least 2008? ish when i worked in phone tech support

google doesnt get to pretend they dont know what the down stream is doing with their product