Thank you for sharing. I do now recall a couple of the items you addressed, and I’ll have to keep others in mind.

We can’t have anything nice… google, digg, Reddit, github, Kagi, proton mail. —at one point in time these were good. The rot or trajectory of rot seems inevitable.

I’m not anti AI, but it doesn’t need to be in everything all the time. It shouldn’t obfuscate data sources. It shouldn’t be allowed to consume and gather everything breaking laws that would apply to any individual and ought to be enforced for any corporate entity.

Pointing an AI at a larger company’s documentation or feeding a local one a largish manual and using it to figure out how or why 2, 3, or 4 parts work together has been useful for me in the past. Again where I can then get to the data to learn for myself.

Letting the pattern recognization machine (AI) assess a logfile or 3 that are intertwined to help find issues has been helpful.

Injecting it into every internet search where I never asked is wasteful and stupid.