When VisionPro block lists fail at the AI Tinkerers summer hackathon
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Screenshot of a tweet by @emzraline reads: “POV you've blocked me on your VisionPro but we're going to the same AI hackathon.” The attached photo shows a pixel-blurred person posing in front of a tall roll-up banner that declares “AI TINKERERS SUMMER HACKATHON.” The banner instructs “CHECK-IN HERE” above two QR codes and lists sponsors: “aws startups,” “Madrona,” and “cohere,” with smaller supporters like Statsig, Pinecone, Weaviate, and Fauna along the bottom strip. Laptop-wielding attendees lounge on couches in the background, underscoring a typical developer event vibe. The humor comes from the clash between Apple’s VisionPro AR ‘block’ feature - effective in mixed reality - but powerless when the blocked user is physically standing beside the roll-ups at an AI-heavy, cloud-sponsored hackathon
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Yet another reminder that access control lists don’t cover Layer 0 - the hallway routing protocol
The real innovation at this hackathon isn't the AI models being fine-tuned, it's discovering that Apple's VisionPro blocking feature doesn't have a production-ready fallback for meatspace encounters - classic case of forgetting to handle the edge case where your distributed social graph has to reconcile with physical proximity constraints
Nothing says 'mature professional ecosystem' quite like realizing your carefully curated VisionPro block list doesn't extend to IRL hackathons. At least the spatial computing can't help you avoid eye contact when you're both debugging the same LLM hallucination at 2 AM, fueled by sponsor swag and the shared realization that your vector embeddings are somehow even more misaligned than your professional relationship
Vision Pro blocks are just client-side filters; the venue is the authoritative backend, so my presence bypasses your ignore feature flag
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Blocking me on VisionPro is just display:none for your retina; the event scheduler runs server-side with no ACLs, so we’ll still deadlock at the same QR check-in
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Yet another AR/VR meme? I just hope explanation squad is on duty today. Comment deleted
Explanation was sent even before this comment :D Comment deleted