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  • They can also do intelligent searching and simply surface links.

    Do I trust LLM summaries? Not fully. But how about the strategy used by an app like BeyondPDF for Mac:

    Think: Firefox does the search, then gives you the sources and the most likely relevant excerpts from each. Consequences of it searching wrong? A small waste of time, but no misinfo.


    Sidebar!

    One can be against environmental costs of great machine-learning powered search, and offended by the arguable IP theft that created the tools, but it’s unlikely all those who say they “don’t want AI anything!” really mean that entirely.

    “I don’t want or need the current version of ChatGPT for my use cases” is very fair though. Maybe they don’t have any SQL queries or Excel formulas - on the edge of their abilities - to build, or text to beautify, or quirky esoteric philosophy to bounce off a robot…






  • I recently looked into this after it seemed like Facebook messed with my back button on a private mobile window:

    Someone pointed out that it’s nice to have, for example, your email provider know that you probably want to go back for a message to your inbox instead of going back to the previous page.

    But what if browsers monitored which sites abused the feature and showed a pop-up when you click the back button, just like they offer to show you notifications? They could show you:

    This site has been reported to hijack the back button. Would you like to go back to the last domain that you visited?

    and offer to remember the setting.