{"id":35494,"date":"2026-03-05T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=35494"},"modified":"2026-03-05T17:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T01:03:56","slug":"ccatp-830","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/ccatp-830\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #830 \u2014 Adam Engst on How Siri Could Become the Mac\u2019s New Help System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The charming Adam Engst joins us to talk about his vision of <a href =\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/02\/09\/how-siri-could-become-the-macs-new-help-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Siri Could Become the Mac\u2019s New Help System<\/a>. His vision is that since Apple knows everything about macOS, it doesn&#8217;t seem a big leap that we should just be able to ask Siri how to do things on our Mac. It could access all of the developer documentation to do this without breaking a sweat. Of course, we wandered off the reservation into talking about how apps could do this too, and of course, we had great fun together noodling this idea.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-35494-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_02_27.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_02_27.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_02_27.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_02_27.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2026_02_27.html\">CCATP_2026_02_27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The charming Adam Engst joins us to talk about his vision of How Siri Could Become the Mac\u2019s New Help System. His vision is that since Apple knows everything about macOS, it doesn&#8217;t seem a big leap that we should just be able to ask Siri how to do things on our Mac. It could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[551,7969,1104,1115],"class_list":["post-35494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-ai","tag-intelligent-siri","tag-macos","tag-siri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35495,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35494\/revisions\/35495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}