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by davidmurdoch 804 days ago
I think it's great that the CEO wants to respond to criticism. It's certainly not scalable, but I don't see anything wrong with this response.

If someone stood in a public square shouting falsehoods about you and people gathered around to listen, you'd want to defend yourself too. The CEO could have written a public post about this blogger's personal attacks, but instead he tried to address them privately; the blogger pulled a 5th grader move and basically put his fingers in his ears and started singing "lalalalaala I can't hear you lalalalalaa".

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Except I don't see many falsehoods there, and CEO's "defense" actually confirms things that blogger said.

For example, the blogger was complaining that Kagi uses too much of AI tools. CEO responded with blog post which announced one AI tool being deployed, confirmed that they are going to keep working on AI, and announced upcoming features.

When blogger complained "Kagi stretches itself way too thin", CEO said "we have to do it"

Re taxes, CEO confirmed that they were not paying taxes, etc..

The best part was how blogger said: "LOL CEO does not understand PII, andd says emails are not PII because one can enter throwaway email" and CEO replied by restating the same thing.