Biography

Ellen Shapiro is an iOS and Android developer who's been building native apps since late 2010. She works for Pixite on their Zinnia journaling app. She lives in Rochester, New York.

When not coding or talking about it, Ellen can generally be found traveling, biking all over the place, playing sous-chef to her wife Lilia, and relentlessly Instagramming their cats.

Talk: An AI Skeptic Implements Apple Intelligence

Ellen Shapiro has repeatedly called generative AI "three failed autocompletes in a trenchcoat". So why was she the one pushing to implement Apple Intelligence™ in the journaling app she works on?

Learn what benefits she thinks it actually brings, whether those are the same as the ones Apple advertises it bringing, and what Apple Intelligence™ does to mitigate some of the most troubling aspects of generative AI.