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by ZuoCen_Liu 182 days ago
RSS isn't just alive; it's the only remaining protocol for deterministic content delivery. There is a fundamental philosophical divide between RSS and the current AI-driven wave that people often miss: RSS is a Push system: If I subscribe to a source, I get 100% of the signal. The 'algorithm' is my own intent. AI is a Filtering system: AI is probabilistic. Its entire job is to guess what I want, which by definition means it creates a 'lossy' stream. People claim AI can 'replace' RSS by summarizing my interests, but AI will never be able to provide the certainty of a feed. I don't want an AI to 'guess' which security advisory or niche technical blog post I should read today; I want the raw signal that I explicitly requested. As long as there are professionals who value information completeness over algorithmic convenience, RSS (or its successor) will be a hard requirement. You can't replace a pipe with a concierge.