They think they’re above the fray, but there’s a reason Google and Meta are taking DMA way more seriously than GDPR - it’s basically a speedboat loaded with explosives in regulatory terms.

It’s designed to move fast and take out targets with extreme prejudice. It is crafted to explicitly overcome the barriers that prevent GDPR being enforced (eg Ireland).

Apple is fucking around with the EU, and will very shortly find out why the DMA is written the way it is.

Apple’s main source of innovation is applying mafia tactics to software distribution.

Even if you give it a paper directly I’d not believe it to be reliable. Maybe it could help search for papers, but that’s it.

Oddly their biggest strength is being irrelevant to the decision makers, if the bean counters noticed the few million they are losing on running Scholar there will be ads + Gemini all over it.

I’m far from impressed with the output of GPT/Claude, all they’ve done is weight against stack overflow - which is still low quality code relative to Google.

What is probability Google makes this a real product, or is it too likely to autocomplete trade secrets?

Huge, huge, massive “no no”.

Likewise you still have to do sever side validation as any client side code can be modified, or you can just send payloads directly to the server. IMHO client side form validation is dangerous as it gives a false sense of security.

Truth be told, Git is a major pain in the ass anyway and I’m very open to something else.

I’d put “person who makes sure WhatsApp verification codes work” on that list.

This isn’t a new problem, but every time I see some form of “free” it gives me pause.