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It sounds bad, but in reality we already choose technology largely based on how easy it is to google for.

React, angular, svelte, etc have great SEO.

Common Lisp, reason, and clojurescript not so much.

Python is popular in ML because it was already popular in the sciences. Most of the technically advanced stuff is happening in C anyway.

More and more I’m viewing LLMs as the next step in search more than anything else.






LLMs are much more than search, for example today I went through several different recipes for sea bass fillets, and then went into much deeper conversations, and ended up with this weird intersection between Bon and how to aptly describe Zen, then very abruptly tried to hone some Bulgarian grammar, then pondered upon the enshittification of hacker news.

To the point that I'm disappointed with human contact.

If you're using it for React.js you're the problem...


That sounds like a lot of time wasted with nonsense when you were looking for sea bass recipes.

Sorry, but when I’m looking for recipes, I don’t really want to go down a rabbit hole of anything else. Especially not AI slop about nonsense.

What’s more, I doubt it randomly started talking about “zen” or whatever.

You likely prompted it.

A prompt is effectively a search query. LLMs can do a lot more with semantic information than read search algos.

> To the point that I'm disappointed with human contact.

Seek help… seriously… that’s not okay…

Find better people to fill your life with.

> If you're using it for React.js you're the problem...

What does this even mean?




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