It was one of the most fun projects I've worked on in my career so far. I got a learn a lot about how US and international addresses worked, so many edge cases, and got to really understand how customers were using the existing search to make sure they weren't adding any duplicates to the database. Token filters and synonyms were neat and figuring out the right indexing strategy was a lot of fun.

It was a lot more work to get it right for most of the use-cases our customers had than just "throw it into ES and be done". That would probably have been fine for the 80/20 case, like you said, but I agree that the bulk of the work is going to be fine-tuning the search solution, whatever technology you're using.

The assistant is still good and I also use it regularly. It’s also nice to not have to leave the terminal sometimes.

https://github.com/themauveavenger/pi-kagi

The OP's blog post is about how the law isn't applied equally in the United States. Aaron was an individual and an easy target for the overzealous prosecutor. Meta's a faceless corporation, guilty in the court of public opinion, and they don't even get a timely investigation because they have the money to tie up the broken legal system indefinitely.

Aaron was an example - if you're small enough, you will be caught, tried, and punished in whatever way we see fit to prove that the justice system "works". If you're a billionaire, do whatever you want wink wink.

This was overzealous prosecution after the affected party got their remedy.

Not a shill.. I just really like pi.

Their approach is minimalism. If you need something pi doesn’t have, the recommendation is to ask pi about it and have it build an extension for you, or look for a plugin.

That said, try it. You may find you didn’t need everything in those ecosystems.

The sentiment of "keep my kids safe on the internet" definitely comes from parents. Yes. We agree.

How we actually get there in a privacy-respecting way is the issue.

I'm not trying to call everyone else voting for these things dumb, but does the average person who doesn't think about this stuff for a living actually know what they're voting for?

If we actually cared about supporting children and parents as a country, parental controls and access, and making sure that systems were actually safe and protected privacy, would NOT be an afterthought.

That said, I’m a father of 3. I’m a millennial and tech worker. I have the digital literacy to teach my kids about the internet and its horrors in a safe way. Not every parent does, so passing this off as a “parent better” issue doesn’t solve anything either.

I dunno if you can legislate “better parental control ux”, but I’m open to similar ideas so parents can get some support without compromising on privacy.

All that and a steady diet of “American Exceptionalism” started as early as kindergarten in our public schools deludes whole swaths of the country into thinking that all of this is somehow good for them.

I grew up going to public schools in the 90s and 2000s in a “blue” part of the country. As I’ve grown up into adulthood with kids, I’ve become so disappointed with my own education. It hasn’t gotten better and it’s worse in a lot of ways.

We homeschool our kids and don’t whitewash our history.

I live in the US and I’ve watched in real time every sad, terrible decision made by the current administration and every sad terrible decision by what’s supposed to be the opposition party. It all makes me want to scream.

And then I’m offline and my life carries on because none it has really affected my white privileged middle class tech worker butt.

It all feels wrong.

It's not like there isn't competition in this space.

Like I said, it's okay if you need those things. Pi might not be for your use-case and that's okay, too.

Him and Armin especially, have been involved in OSS for years and have worked hard to build communities around projects they’ve built and maintained. We’ve all seen enough projects become what you’re afraid of, Mario included. I’m optimistic that they’ll keep true to their goal of keeping pi open while building their other products around it. I think they understand the community dynamics necessary to keep a project like pi going. And they want it to succeed that way.

Yes, LLM capabilities have expanded. We might be working with different definitions of "Artificial General Intelligence" here, for which there is no agreed-upon formal definition[1]. I was thinking of the "thinking, reasoning, maybe feeling" kind when I wrote my comment. But if you're thinking along the "really good at technical tasks" definition, sure, maybe.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...

Unless I’ve missed some advancement?

This is entirely for personal use and small projects. I don't have huge needs. I get access to gpt models via my employer for work things. But I'm also using pi with those models.

[1]: https://opencode.ai/go

[2]: https://pi.dev/