I really didn't understand his argument. How do LLMs replace a networked operating environment and all its APIs? There has to be some application protocol to communicate between the two systems. Is he really just arguing for open standards?

Such a roundabout way of saying they can’t charge a subscription for CarPlay

Rivian Software Chief can suck my nuts. AI will never replace my taste in music and my control over my media library!

Redundant? Yeah, maybe. So what? Do you need to save space on your infotainment partition?

With options, users develop -gasp- preferences. That would encourage competition and good UI practices. Heck, maybe keep ads to a minimum.

Rivian, go ahead and build something better. Make drivers/passengers WANT to use your app.

AM/FM and the Aux chord in the back of the class clowning around...

Thanks, in my cursory interaction with Rivian, I'd only had positive impressions. It's nice to now have the clarity to know that the disease of enshitification is alive and well in their hallways like the rest.

Thank you for dismissing any early goodwill I had for your company, chief software officer.

Then why do car manufacturers keep selling your driving history to insurance companies and advertisers?

My goal is to avoid "AI" so I guess Rivian is now redundant to me.

just when I started liking them.

damn.

Wut.

Super. More disappointing shit.

Somehow the old guard boring car vehicle brands, not GM - maybe not any American brand, are becoming desire brands/models. At worst, never sign up for a car subscription and teach the younger ones that haven't experienced a car phone mount. They're better today than in the past. Instead of finagling with clips, they have magnets

Not me in my twenty year old truck with the broken radio and the sound of my own thoughts

I drive a Rivian, it’s perfectly nice, mine is an R1T lease you’d have to be stupid to buy an EV right now with how fast they’re changing and while it’s nice in the sense that it’s quick and handles well it’s got serious issues with the GPS/infotainment it tracks you literally 24/7 and you cannot turn it off, there’s so many people on line talking about it and Rivian fanboys shouting them down about how they must be trying to cheating on their partners, like nah I just don’t consent to Rivian tracking me it’s really not that deep. The R1T has basically zero accessible interior storage and lots of things that should be buttons are hidden in a screen menu. I need a truck I live in the country and haul stuff in the bed on a very regular basis and I want an EV for very obvious reasons but the 24/7 tracking alone is a reason I likely won’t be getting a gen 2 R1T when my lease is up much less all the shitty software

Wait, didn't they go bankrupt? How are they still around?