But are disappointing like Apple for being a "closed" ecosystem

Tried getting AI summaries of pages - besides those that seem to demand deeper dives

You could open a few best ones you like or a lot you like and just choose the top ones from them; read summaries of the lesser ones (or skip) or just pick a few to read more deeply

It is a problem that existed way before AI (there's already more books in existence than we could ever read, for example, many lifetimes over, so we are picking amd choosing among priorities of what to read)

some say ideas a "a dime a dozen"; the prevailing message that "code was never the hard part" is kind of the reverse of this

In truth the top comment reports correctly that it probably varies from person to person; obviously for people working on intricate algorithms to solve cutting-edge problems, "code is the hard part"; for those who simply make use of existing algorithms like that but to maybe solve an existing problem for themselves or others, it's more about knowing that algorithm exists and making use of it and "code isn't the hard part" (for them)

hence you can probably identify where code is and isn't the hard part with different pursuits

The point being more that the development does weigh more heavily on having fun ideas to ask AI to build

I think there's probably also a place for people to make guides for AI-assisted programming or even personal essays on their views of "taste" or what they want code to look like?

I see pop up frequently objections to vibe coding (different from mere AI assistance in coding - vibe coding being creating things without looking at the code at all) that it doesn't account for architectural descisions, cybersecurity decisions, edge cases, and other such things. So to me it looks like a next step might be in identifying these things "vibe coding" doesn't do well, that people can learn more manually, so they can do at least AI assisted coding well.

businesses obviously keep doing unsolicited telemarketing calls because it works to some extent

Or could this be ported to work on other such platforms?

edit: AI mentions a "BigMoeonEdge" project

We never really know what will work until we build "something" and it's often a messy process to create totally different things that no one else is making

So, it looks like the experiments are coming along well...

other things that came up in a search not mentioned in post yet (that I have heard of before):

mojeek or yacy - are these any good?

list of searx instances (I've used some of these a while ago but not recently so idk of their quality currently): https://searx.space/