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> The speaker is arguing there is a macro trend of pushing us towards agentic interactions instead of the UI components we're used to. This trend is not even limited to Windows. We saw it begin years ago with Google etc gradually reducing the quality of search results. Then ChatGPT etc arrive shortly thereafter, and people are led to conclude "it works so much better than traditional search." Hard to believe these tw…
I don't know, I think a simpler explanation for Google's behavior is that monopolies act like monopolies. Combating spam and SEO junk is hard and expensive. Once they became synonymous with web search for most people they gradually cared less and less about product quality. If people will keep using the product no matter how bad the results get and how many ads get jammed in it's hard for a corporation like that to c…
duckduckgo is also serving crap from some time, so no, it is not about monopolies.