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by soco 158 days ago
Simpler and efficient for who? I imagine some random guy vibe coding "hi chatgpt I want to scrape this and this website", getting something running, then going to LinkedIn to brag about AI. Yes I have no hard evidence for this, but I see things on LinkedIn.
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That's not the problem being discussed here, though. That's normal usage, and you can hardly blame AI companies for shitty scrapers random users create on demand, because it's merely a symptom of coding getting cheap. Or, more broadly, the flip side of the computer becoming an actual "bicycle for the mind" and empowering end-users for a change.