John Burkey, an ex-Apple engineer who was tasked to improve Siri in 2014 and left the company in 2016, said that Siri's clunky design makes it difficult to add new features. Siri is able to answer simple queries like "What's the weather?" and "Can you play this song?" by drawing from a database with a large stockpile of words such as restaurant locations and musician names, Burkey said. expressing their frustrations on Reddit with questions like "Why is Siri so stupid" and "is Siri getting dumber each year