There is exactly one place where I want ai: in its browser window that’s directed at the service of my choice (ideally something self hosted).
I don’t want an ai sidebar.
I don’t want ai search summaries.
I don’t want ai assisted shopping.
I don’t want ai snooping in my photo gallery.
I don’t want ai in my emails.
And I don’t want to watch other people’s slop. I can prompt my own, fuck off.
This has been part 3 of a series of comments on my nuanced opinion regarding ai.
It’s sad that nuanced talk is getting rarer and rarer. I think we can all agree that AI can be useful if used thoughtfully.
No AI shouldn’t be a feature per se. No Microsoft bullshit, on the other hand, is a feature.
There is always a good argument for symplicity and AI is not simple and has uncertain security.
Similar thing with IDEs and editors when coding. I have always prefered an editor except when the IDE does exactly what I want which is often not the case.
AI definitely loves to over-engineer things but I’ve had lots of success with the latest models just telling them not to. Also I do simplification passes afterwards telling them to find anything that can be simplified or YAGNI.
I guess the tend to over-engineer is probably because the benchmarks don’t care about simplicity and maintainability? Who knows.
Yes, old news is now new news.
Seriously, this has been posted 4 times a day for 2 weeks now.
AI features are also Microsoft’s excuse for trying to force customers into a $100/yr subscription model.
