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Cake day: December 22nd, 2024

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  • I really non ironically miss the friction of the old internet.

    I prefer how it took time to find some bare HTML university website, slowly browse through an index as if it was a book, and then find one non-SEO optimized page with all the information you needed on a topic for your research.

    The time to browse, being exposed to other terms, having to select the pages yourself, being skeptical by nature, and then having to copy it by hand… This is a much more positive scenario than having a gigantic company learn everything about you and everybody else and then make these decisions for you, using some hidden algorithm, and with the ultimate goal of pushing their newest process. And of course, the content has been rendered virtually useless to appeal to that algorithm.









  • And yet they still haven’t managed to get enough people to pay the subscription costs, except the guys trying to package it as a SaaS and hoping the customers don’t notice they’re just a fancy middleman.

    They can scale up training all they want, there’s a natural price point most customers won’t go over. And if you’re thinking about businesses paying that extra cost because they can save money on actual workers… Sure, for a few months, and then they realize what happens when they leave their super intelligent AI agents alone for a few weeks and a website changes the default layout, breaking the entire workflow, or when an important client receives an absurd automated email, or when their AI note taker and financial planning agent is incapable of answering why $20000 disappeared.