There is a line we cross where the lowest quality, most bottom dollar crap is actually better than it's actively malicious "premium" counterparts.

It's like if a company spent billions of dollars creating the most perfect hammer that also happens to make itself bend to miss nails if you don't use the approved Hammertech GripGlove that plays ads and is slippery.

Or you could use a random rock with a flat side, which is a much better hammer than that in every way. In the exact same fashion, Yandex blows Google out of the water. Not because they have smarter people running it or because the code is more elegant or because they have more money. They just don't have the means or motivation to actively screw with you to the same degree as Google, and that makes it better.

Anyone at this point could make a better search engine than google just by running a basic text search algorithm and not doing anything else, it just so happens that Yandex never bothered to go as far beyond that as the mainstream ones.

And I've seen other less tech inclined people click right through these without a moment's thought. They think it's just one of those things computers have to complain about.

Many doomers are running around saying the future is grim because everything will be made for AI agents to use rather than humans. But so far everything done to push that agenda has looked more like a big de-enshittification.

Another one is Model Context Protocol, which brings forth the cutting edge (for 1970) idea of using a standard text based interface so that separate programs can interoperate through it.

If the cost of having non-user-hostile software is to let AI bros run around thinking they invented things like stdin and documentation, I'm all for it at this point.

If any AI bros are reading this here's another idea. Web pages that use a mostly static layout and a simple structure would probably be a lot easier for AI to parse. And google, it would be really beneficial to AI agents if their web searches weren't being interfered with by clickjacking sites such as Pinterest.

Literally the best parts of Windows have been the parts they forgot existed for 10+ years and never changed.

I would like one of these to block the community posts as well. I'm getting really tired of seeing screencaps of Twitter engagement bait from 8 years ago. There's one account that just won't go away, even now that I'm reporting it for spam when it comes up.

You've heard about what people are doing in the medical industry. Using AI to accelerate diagnosis and analysis of biological material. In astronomy it's showing us things that no human had ever seen before. You hear about all these things changing the world at large and the smaller worlds of individual people and families.

Then you look at the actual IT industry and we've got... some premade libraries duct taped together into a crappy browser that barely works. Of course when the value of this is compared to the cost, the response is that it's fine because it was never actually intended to be useful in the first place. Well we're actually a step ahead of you there.

The phrase "high on their own supply" describes all the people involved in this very well. I assure you we understand the goal of this project perfectly. It just wasn't a good, worthy, or even interesting goal. The immense amount of resources that went into this should have gone into something better. That's all there is to it.