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by bawolff 203 days ago
The biggest problem with mozilla is they are trend chasing instead of finding a niche.

The AI stuff is the perfect example. Are there people who like AI? Certainly. Will they use firefox? Probably not.

At this stage firefox is the anti-establishment choice. That crowd hates AI. Betting on AI might make sense if you are chrome. It doesn't make sense if you are firefox.

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I use Firefox to access ChatGPT. I wouldn't want AI suggestions or slop appearing on random pages.

The idea that LLM have been successful and useful for significant things is naturally confused with the idea LLMs needed to bolted on to literally anything.