Comment by xp84

Helping my kid get ready for shower I had this exchange:

Me: "Text Jane Would you mind dropping down the robe and underpants"

Siri: Sends Jane "Would you mind dropping down"

Me: rolls eyes "Text Jane robe and underpants"

Siri: "I don't see a Jane Robe in your contacts."

Me: wishes I could drown Siri in the bathtub

It's wild to me that Apple got the ability to do the actual speech-to-text part pretty much 100% solved more than half a decade ago, yet struggles in 2026 to turn streams of very simple, correctly-transcribed text into intents in ways that even a local model can figure out. Siri is good STT, a bunch of serviceable APIs that can control lots of stuff, with the digital equivalent of a brain-damaged cat sitting at the center of it guaranteeing the worst possible experience.