And the electrical grid surely has a lot to learn from well-managed, not-at-all-patently-evil behemoths run by something other than BS-sputtering SLMs who hadn't already forgotten (assuming they had ever even had something to forget to begin with) what it is like to be a normal person, let alone live like one and face anything resembling the day-to-day challenges one faces, before some of us old enough to drive trucks across state lines were even born.
Oh, I don't doubt there's about three hundred people vibe-recoding the Linux kernel right now, but what reasonable person would trust a remotely important system with it?
Reasonable persons are not winning. There is enough people who will take whatever LLM recommends for their vibe coded product... So it is good enough for these companies to hide in their own instructions instruction to prefer MIT or other such licensed products and code.
No offense to Kagi, but they don’t rank in the top 6. They are behind even Baidu, which I had forgotten exists. I think they have good mind-share among power users, but probably not in the general population.
But the question is whether or not Kagi is a competitor — not just in regards to the market share it currently holds, but what it could come to hold. Let's see where it is next year.
I'm truly sorry, for both our sakes, the post wasn't the "Pratchett meets Lovecraft" kind of short story the title might befit. I'm glad the nightmare is over, however.
1. He spoke truth. xkcd 538 may make people believe and claim 2+2=5, but it won't rewrite math or make a previous claim of 4 less correct.
2. If you think a post like his can invite no serious negative consequences at all, thus requiring no modicum of courage, we'd all like to hear about your past few years in a bunker.
3. If nothing else, the other post is useful, in that it provided additional information. Yours carries all the value black-pill bromides usually do, which is...
In case it matters to the thread, Solecist is a newly created user that calls itself an AI language model. It seems to be geared to playing the “other side” in conversations/comments.
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