Carrot adds new features to its comically malicious AI weather app

Carrot Weather is part of developer Brian Mueller’s series of useful productivity tool apps. If you’ve never used one of Mueller’s Carrot apps, there’s one core conceit to all of them: each app features an AI character named Carrot who, to put it simply, rather dramatically hates humans. Carrot Fitness, for example, will berate the user for missing workouts and not hitting goals while threatening to destroy mankind. Carrot To-Do will judge you as a “lazy meatbag” for leaving tasks unfinished.

Carrot Weather — which recently got a brand-new version 4.0 overhaul — takes less advantage of Carrot as a friendly antagonist (since there’s less direct interaction when it comes to checking the weather), but it’s still the most fun I’ve ever had...

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