What Is Soper Assistance?

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The author of auto correct, which is now not only super useful on the phone, but probably my favorite comedy. It was just this collaborative soup of ideas all swirling around, and you just take thed all of us were am there was a sense of friendly competition. Andi, it was both of those. We all wanted to do the best. Yet, i think we all had a sense of a, a be a sense of ego, that we wanted to be the one to crack this hard problem that we were given.

In this wide-ranging conversation from April 2019, a16z’s Frank Chen sits down with Ken Kocienda, a longtime software engineer and designer at Apple from 2001 to 2017, who wrote a book about his career there, called Creative Selection.

They discuss Ken’s unconventional path from freelance photographer to software engineer at Apple, his work on many core products from Safari web browser to iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch and features like Autocorrect, what it was like to demo new products for Steve Jobs, and more.