Yep. I’m bored. These people have nothing to offer and nothing to say.

Here's the other thing: people who spend their time playing tennis, raising kids, hanging out with their dog by the grill, etc. aren't constantly marketing their lifestyles to social media.

"Ideal family life" is very much a lifestyle that is sold on social media. And was sold for decades before that.

I strongly suspect this is the major difference between the boosters and the skeptics.

If I’m right, the gap isn’t about what can the tool do, but the fact that some people see an electric screwdriver (which is sometimes useful) and others see what feels to them like a robot intern.

I expect we’ll see a lot of this as genAI content is seen as shlock.

But we’re also seeing a lot of schlock…

Except I’ve coached a lot of those people and there’s usually a method to their madness. You can sit down, help them back up to where they went off the rails, and it all makes sense.

Robot code is bonkers.

You might like Kagi. The ability to upvote/downvote/block domains completely transforms the product.

It looks like just another search engine trening towards Ai UX. Do they have an API?

I'm now looking for APIs to integrate with my custom / personal agent setup. I'm done outsourcing my UX to Big Ai/Tech. I don't think we should repeat the same mistakes of outsource a core human/digital UX to Big Ai/Tech. We (HNers) complain so much about all the bad stuff the prior iterations (social media, saas out the wazoo), are we going to repeat it again by defaulting to whatever they give us, misaligned incentives and all?

That’s cool. I’m going another route, where I’m trying to pay for independent apps that give a shit about quality. I want nice things, but I also want to back the people who give a shit about craft and don’t have the time to DIY my own universe anyway.

If you’ve got screenshots or details on your personal masterpieces I’m interested to see it.

I pay for things that I care about the quality for. Seeing another search company trending towards Ai centric means, to me, they are not focused on search quality any more. They have bills to pay and everyone is chasing that Ai revenue now, to the detriment of their primary product before the hype cycle started.

The neutral reviews of Kagi I have seen don't lead me to believe there is some superior quality awaiting me if I just give them the money

> If you’ve got screenshots or details on your personal masterpieces I’m interested to see it.

Saying something like this, in this way, is not constructive and not how to bring people towards your way of seeing things. You, specifically with this comment, make me even less likely to use Kagi, and pay less attention to things you may say in reply or otherwise in the future

Huh?

You may have misread the thread. I'm saying your note that "I'm done outsourcing my UX"—the very thing that makes both DDG and Kagi unsuitable for you—sounds like you're building something novel, even if it's exclusively to scratch your own itch.

If its ever in a place where you'd be open to sharing, that's the sort of thing I come to HN for.

I share my work on GitHub, if you want details, go read there. I'm not going to copy and paste for you

They have an API but they're pretty costly(search is actually pretty costly).

> Perhaps that is to be expected in the era of TikTok and A.I. Some education experts believe that in the near future, even the most sophisticated stories and knowledge will be imparted mainly through audio and video...

In no world would I consider a person who says "it's okay if the next generation is illiterate" an education expert.

And the guy selling excerpts software says there's no data suggesting a deep, unsolvable flaw in his product. Cool.

> Timothy Shanahan, a leading literacy scholar and an author of the StudySync curriculum, said there was no data suggesting that students become stronger readers when they are assigned full novels.

... If anyone is working on reversing this I'd love to hear where you're starting.

Reversing it? We're on the cusp of the LLM era. You're on a site full of people trying to sell one kind of summarization or another as so thoroughly a replacement for reading full original texts that it can't be questioned without raising hackneyed accusations of objecting to the invention of the calculator. Before long people who read full novels will be seen the way we now see people who listen to music on vinyl.

My suggestion is get kids into audiobooks first and then get them reading, also don’t let kids watch tv or have a smart phone I wasn’t allowed to watch tv during the week as a kid, and I have neck problems because I read so much. Now I’m lucky if I get through a book a year.

The modern AI phone support systems I’ve encountered aren’t able to do anything or go off script, so it sounds better but it’s still a lousy experience.

This is also a story about marketing.

At this point, the level of puffery is on par with claiming a new pair of shoes will turn you into an Olympic athlete.

People are doing this because they’re told it works, and showing up to run a marathon with zero training because they were told the shoes are enough.

Some people may need to figure out the problem here for themselves.

I remember the early days of the ipad 1 where publishers and technologists were stoked about all the cool new interactive things they could do with this format.

It flopped. It turns out interactive infographics and scrollytelling are fun (and costly) to make but readers don't really like them.

The smashing success story wasn't actually what you can do with the new devices' screen, it was audio. It turns out audiobooks (and podcasts) are a huge hit when the price is right and you make it accessible enough.