Agreed. If anything, it puts downward pressure on pricing. Even if the CIO still buys Salesforce or whatever other tool, they won't be willing to pay as much.
Just not search. The search product has pretty much become useless over the past 3 years and the AI answers often will get just to the level of 5 years ago. This creates a sense that that things are better - but really it’s just become impossible to get reliable information from an avenue that used to work very well.
I don’t think this is intentional, but I think they stopped fighting SEO entirely to focus on AI. Recipes are the best example - completely gutted and almost all receive sites (therefore the entire search page) run by the same company. I didn’t realize how utterly consolidated huge portions of information on the internet was until every recipe site about 3 months ago simultaneously implemented the same anti-Adblock.
Competition always is. I think there was a real fear that their core product was going to be replaced. They're already cannibalizing it internally so it was THE wake up call.
Wartime Google gave us Google+. Wartime Google is still bumbling, and despite OpenAI's numerous missteps, I don't think it has to worry about Google hurting its business yet.
I do miss Google+. For my brain / use case, it was by far the best social network out there, and the Circle friends and interest management system is still unparalleled :)
Windows Phone was actually good. I would even say that my Lumia something was one of best experiences ever on mobile. G+ was also good. Efficient markets mean that you can "extract" rent, via selling data or attention etc. not realy what is good
Turns out that if you're OK with your government supporting other countries that do this, or doing it themselves abroad, eventually, they end up doing it at home?
Micropolis is the open sourced version of the original engine built by Will Wright. Here’s the JS port that I used for this game: https://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/
The other part that's exhausting is having to rethink your tool chain and workflow on a very regular basis. New models, new tools, new prompting strategies.
> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!
We build a personal finance tool (referenced in the article). It's a web/mobile/backend stack (mostly React and Python). That said, I think a lot of the principles are generalizable.
> Writing _is_ the thinking. It's a critical input in developing good taste.
Agree, but I'll add that _good_ prompt-writing actually requires a lot of thought (which is what makes it so easy to write bad prompts, which are much more likely to produce slop).
I know many companies that have replaced Customer Support agents with LLM-based agents. Replacing support with AI isn't new, but what is new is that the LLM-based ones have higher CSAT (customer satisfaction) rates than the humans they are now replacing (ie, it's not just cost anymore... It's cost and quality).
Well I as a Customer who had to deal with AI bots as Customer Service have significantly lower Customer Satisfaction. Because I don't wanna deal with some clanker. Who doesn't realy understand what I am talking about.
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