How are you dealing with all the negative side effects of AI on the web?
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It seems to me that the AI hype killed the web for good, but not for the reasons we immediately associate with it. Search engines now rank links full of slop at the top, which ironically make LLM summaries acceptable, not because they are better than what we had before (they are not), but because they at least mention the good links which are now buried at the bottom of the page. Also, they've been rate limiting ordinary users like crazy: more often than I'd like to, Google and DuckDuckGo now…
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I'm still working on Marginalia Search. It's gotten pretty good, but still much to go. Kinda wish more people saw this all as a fun and interesting engineering problem rather than just moping about it. I think AI gets a lot of blame for a state of disrepair that was already quite present even before AI came around.…
It's the occasion of relying more on communities like Lobsters or on RSS feeds to discover new things.
I agree, but sometimes I don't need to discover new things, I need to check boring stuff that no one else is discussing to *get things done*. I don't want to go on a rant but basically it seems AI killed programming as a hobby to me for reasons more than one. The experience of trying to build something myself has…
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