807: A Sign of Maturity, with Federico Viticci

Federico joins the show to talk to David and Stephen about his Apple gear, iPadOS 26, running MacStories, and how AI is changing automation tools.

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Podcasts - MacStories (macstories.net/podcasts)
Connected - Relay (relay.fm/connected)
Club MacStories (club.macstories.net)
iPhone (1st generation) - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation))
Our Setups - MacStories (macstories.net/setups)
The iPad's "Sweet" Solution - MacStories (macstories.net/stories/the-ipads-sweet-solution)
The M3 Ultra Mac Studio for Local LLMs - MacStories (macstories.net/linked/the-m3-ultra-mac-studio-…)
Notes on Early Mac Studio AI Benchmarks with Qwen3-235B-A22B and Qwen2.5-VL-72B - MacStories (macstories.net/notes/notes-on-early-mac-studio…)
Claude (claude.ai)
Zapier: Automate AI Workflows, Agents, and Apps (zapier.com)
Google Gemini (gemini.google.com/app)
Model Context Protocol - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Context_Protocol)
Nautomate (nautomate.app)
Jump Desktop (jumpdesktop.com)
Superhuman (superhuman.com)
Mimestream (mimestream.com)
Notion Mail (notion.com/product/mail)
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