Don’t forget the terrible implementation of glassy ui: https://mastodon.social/@lensco@mastodon.world/115184867033621399

Or their terrible icons: https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

Or how every element is broken in unusual ways: https://blog.johnozbay.com/what-happened-to-apples-attention-to-detail.html

Think Different:

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

It wouldn’t, a simple finite state machine that any intelligent entity could emulate would be enough.

But people have completely deluded themselves into thinking that (what CEOs and marketers call) “AI” is actually intelligent, and this case study shows how preposterous that fantasy actually is.

The solution is simple: Remove the dagger mid-combat.

You could make the dagger too hot to hold and it falls out of reach (off a mountain, into rushing water, etc…)

You could make the dagger dissolve away (through lava, acid, being eaten, etc…)

You could make something take the dagger (disarming, stealing, etc…)

A hag/genie/etc could place a curse on the PC (holding anything makes them experience immense pain and drop what they’re holding, anything dagger they hold is turned into a spoon, etc…)