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by tensor 202 days ago
It's certainly wrong on some things. For example, claiming that there are no examples of positive uses of LLMs is flat out wrong. I'm generally on the very conservative side when it comes to AI hype but even I'll admit it will be transformative in some ways.

Certainly not the insane fantasies most of the gen-AI CEOs are pushing, but, for example, it's clear beyond any shadow of a doubt that traditional search is dead. AI supported search is far superior in every way. For clarity, I'm talking about "deep research" style search where you get verifiable links to source materials along with your answers.

It's absolutely not crazy for Mozilla to get into this space, though I think if I were them I'd make an adjacent "AI search and agnentic AI first" web application adjacent to Firefox and keep Firefox as a legacy style browser. This would both give Mozilla a clean slate to do it right, while also keeping happy those who are not early adopters.